Tarini Malik

Tarini Malik is the curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024 edition of La Biennale di Venezia working with artist John Akomfrah. She is currently in post as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Previously, she was a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery and responsible for the planning of artistic programmes, and at the Hayward Gallery where she organised a series of landmark group exhibitions, as well as the first solo presentations in the UK of several international artists. From 2013-2017, Malik was Head of Exhibitions for artist Isaac Julien and Research Curator with Mark Nash on several major touring international exhibitions. In 2015, she was Research Curator for the main exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia curated by Okwui Enwezor, entitled “All The World’s Futures”. Malik has also held curatorial positions at Fiorucci Art Trust, Frieze Projects and Serpentine Galleries. She has published her writing in various magazines and journals and lectured widely on cultural studies.