Shama Khanna is an independent curator, writer, and educator, from and based in London. Khanna participated in CuratorLab at Konstfack, 2012-2013. Khanna curates Flatness (flatness.eu), a multi-format research and commissioning project engaging in ideas around culture after the internet, and the Non-Linear artists’ moving image screening series. Related events have taken place in international venues from Vancouver to Vilnius.
Khanna teaches in the Curating Contemporary Art MA programme at the Royal College of Art and the Experimental Film MA at Kingston University. Recent texts have been published by NANG, Art Monthly, The White Review, LUX, Documenta 14 and Aorist, co-edited with seven other writers. Khanna is a Trustee of not / no.w.here cooperative, an Arts Adviser for Jerwood Arts and a curator-in-residence across Shades of Noir and Afterall.