Salma Tuqan

Salma Tuqan is a contemporary art and design curator and cultural Strategist. She is the Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation (London), a cross disciplinary non profit dedicated to developing creative practice through international residencies, exhibitions and public programming. Prior to this, she was the Contemporary Middle East Curator at the V&A, responsible for Middle Eastern art and design programming, co-curator of the international biennial Jameel Prize exhibition, and co founder of the Culture in Crisis stream. She has contributed to projects as an independent curator, including Palestine c/o Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), the Wind Tunnel Project (2014) and Until my veins collapse at Mac Lyon (2022). She works closely with cultural organisations on strategy and is an advisory member of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum (London), Rivers Institute (New Orelans), Art on the Underground (London), Arab Image Foundation (Beirut) and NuMu (Guatemala City)