Biography
Dr Jareh Das is an independent curator, writer, researcher and occasional florist who moves between West Africa and the UK. Her interest in global modern and contemporary art is cross-disciplinary although her understanding is filtered through the lens of performance art which informs both her academic and curatorial work. She was on the Contemporary Art Society's Advisory Board, from April 2021.
Das's most recent curated exhibition, Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art at Two Temple Place, London, 29 January - 24 April 2022 and York Art Gallery 24 June - 18 September 2022 surveyed how ceramics have been disrupted, questioned and reimagined by black women over the last seventy years beginning with seminal Nigerian potter, Ladi Kwali.
In 2018, she was awarded her doctorate in Curating Art and Science: New Methods and Sites of Production and Display offered in partnership with Arts Catalyst and Royal Holloway, the University of London funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art/Inspire (Work-Based) from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in partnership with MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Teeside University, funded by Art Council England (ACE) and a BA (Hons) in Material Culture, Architecture and Museum Studies from the University of Leeds.