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Habda Rashid

Habda Rashid

BA MA

  • Position Governing Body Fellow
  • School Arts & Humanities
  • Email hr465@cam.ac.uk
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Habda Rashid is the Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Habda Rashid

Appointed in 2021, Habda Rashid is the first senior curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Central to her role is to develop new perspectives within the collection within a global context and to therefore identify new acquisitions to better represent the diversity of art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Habda was also the lead curator of the major exhibition: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place, the first by Black artists at the Museum. Habda鈥檚 role previously stretched across Kettle鈥檚 Yard, where she was responsible for the House and its collection, and curated the exhibition, Paint Like The Swallow Sings Calypso. It was the first exhibition that brought together the collections of Kettle鈥檚 yard and the Fitzwilliam. 

Habda was appointed Senior Curator at Create London in 2019 and stepped up to interim Artistic Director in 2021. At Create London, Habda was part of the team working on the Turner Prize-winning Hackney Windrush Art Commission by Veronica Ryan; the first public artwork to win the prestigious prize. She was formerly part of the curatorial department at the Whitechapel Gallery.

 Her extensive experience in contemporary art has seen her commission new works and curate exhibitions with a wide range of artists including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Shezad Dawood, Michael Rakowitz, Eva Rothschild, and Veronica Ryan. She has supported emerging British artists to produce new works including Larry Achiampong, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and Joy Labinjo. She has also written for and edited numerous publications, writing texts on artists such as Leonor Antunes, Elmgreen & Dragset and Michael Rakowitz, and has had writing published on her own diaspora experience. 

 

Habda鈥檚 broader research interests include examining how the post-colonial complexities of genealogies and geographies challenge existing histories of art to expand subject matter, ideas and media. She is also interested in the intersection of colonial legacy and the climate crisis, and the shifting definitions attached to the term 鈥榞lobal鈥 in artistic practices. She is part of many networks that extend into the art world and has given talks and been part of panels at many institutions including Tate, Hayward Gallery and the Crafts Council, as well as lectured or taken crits. at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths University and Sussex University. Habda is an advisor for the British School at Rome, Fine Art Faculty and a 2025 Turner Prize Jury member .

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