Rotana Shaker

About The Curator

Rotana Shaker (b. 1995, Riyadh, KSA) is a curator and art historian. She received her BS in Psychology and Art History from Tufts University and her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art from Columbia University. She was the MODA 2020 Curatorial Fellow at the Wallach Art Gallery where she curated the exhibition A Bottomless Silence, featuring the works of Jumana Manna, Walid Raad, and Nadia Kaabi Linke. She was subsequently a curatorial fellow at Punk Orientalism, working alongside the global curator Sara Raza. She is interested in contemporary art, with a particular focus on artists who, like herself, inhabit and traverse various national and cultural borders and explore themes of archives, history, and identity.