Salma Tuqan

Salma Tuqan is a contemporary art and design curator and cultural strategist. She is currently Deputy Director at Delfina Foundation, a non-profit cross-disciplinary foundation dedicated to artistic exchange through global residencies, exhibitions and public programming. She was formerly the Contemporary Middle East curator at the V&A from 2011–2019, responsible for the museum’s Middle Eastern programming including residencies, commissions, public programming and laying the foundations for the museum’s permanent collection. She is an advisory board member of The British Museum’s Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (London), The Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), NuMu (Guatemala City) and Art on the Underground (London). She has a BA, MA in Art History from Cambridge University and an MA in Art Policy and Cultural Management from Birkbeck.