Salma Tuqan

Salma Tuqan is a contemporary art and design curator and cultural strategist. She is the director of Nottingham Contemporary, a leading center of contemporary art in the UK. Prior to joining Nottingham Contemporary she was the deputy director of Delfina Foundation, an interdisciplinary nonprofit dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, exhibitions, and public programming. From 2011 to 2019 she worked as the Contemporary Middle East Curator at the V&A, where she was responsible for Middle Eastern art and design programming at the museum, co-curated the biennial international Jameel Prize exhibition, and co-founded the Culture in Crisis stream.

She has contributed to other projects as an independent curator and facilitator. She works closely with cultural organizations on strategy and is a committee member of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum (London), the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), Art on the Underground (London), and the Rivers Institute (New Orleans). She is a strategic advisor to NuMu (Guatemala City) and a former trustee of the Crossway Foundation (London) and The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit).