Nadia Radwan, PhD, is an art historian, researcher, curator, and associate professor, currently head of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Genève, University of Art and Design. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, non-Western modernisms, and decolonial curatorial approaches. From 2015 to 2022, she was an assistant professor of World Art History at the University of Bern and the Center for Global Studies at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg. Her book Les Modernes d’Égypte was published by Peter Lang in 2017, and she is presently working on publishing her habilitation thesis on resilience and abstraction.
Radwan has published numerous articles in international journals and contributed to exhibition catalogues for institutions such as Kunsthaus Zürich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Palais de Rumine, Sharjah Museum of Art, and Westmoreland Museum of American Art. She co-founded Manazir: Platform for the Studies of Visual Arts, Architecture, and Heritage in the MENA region and serves as editor-in-chief of Manazir Journal (manazir.art).
