Brief History of South Asian Art

Alina Khakoo is a PhD student on the Criticism and Culture program at Cambridge University, focusing on South Asian diasporic art-making in 1980s Britain, across the contexts of art education, art publishing, archives, and the display of art, thinking through concepts of group work, DIY art-making, and the relations between politics and aesthetics. Alongside her PhD, Khakoo has worked on the curatorial team at Kettle's Yard, assisting on the exhibitions Linderism (2020), Untitled (2021) and Sutapa Biswas (2021-22). She also works as a library volunteer at Tate, where she catalogues the Panchayat Special Collection. Her publications include the book chapter Reading Between the Texts: On Kali (1984), in Lumen: Sutapa Biswas, Cambridge, London and Newcastle: Kettle's Yard, Ridinghouse and BALTIC, 2021. She has taught as a guest lecturer and supervisor in the faculty of History of Art and the faculty of English at Cambridge, and has co-facilitated events such as the Kali Student Reading Group with Lola Olufemi (2021); the Decolonizing the Archive workshop with Samia Malik of the Women of Colour Index Reading Group (2021); and seminars for the Postcolonial and Related Literatures Postgraduate Research Seminar series at Cambridge, which she has co-convened since 2019.