Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton is a UK-based art historian and museologist whose research centres on the art and exhibition histories of Britain’s Black and brown artists. As a Research Fellow at UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute, her work critically examines curatorial practices, museum methodologies, and the framing of Black British art within national art histories. Her forthcoming book, Curating Black British Art: Exhibition Cultures Since the 1980s (Bloomsbury, 2026), builds on her doctoral and postdoctoral research, including her role in the AHRC-funded Black Artists & Modernism project, for which she led the first nationwide audit of works by Black British artists in public collections, revealing their systemic underrepresentation and informing more equitable collecting and display practices.
Anjalie has collaborated with leading UK museums, co-developing initiatives such as Doing the Work (2021), a professional development programme on anti-racism and decolonisation, and Provisional Semantics (2020-21), which piloted ethical co-production of collections information with communities. Her most recent project, Transforming Collections (2021-24), investigated racial and imperial biases in museum interpretation, including the development of an AI tool to support curators in crafting inclusive narratives. Across her work, she is committed to bridging scholarship and practice, advancing curatorial strategies that challenge exclusionary histories and promote equity and accountability in the museum sector.
