Najrin Islam

Najrin Islam is a writer, curator, and film programmer currently based in London. Her writings have featured in Art Review Asia, e-flux Criticism, Art Monthly, PhotoSouthAsia, Art India, and ASAP Connect, among other publications. She is a recipient of the Art Scribes Award (2022) and the Art Writer’s Award (2018), and she attended the respective residencies at Château de la Napoule, France (2023) and Villa Sträuli, Switzerland (2019). She has written for catalogues and anthologies by Serendipity Arts Foundation (New Delhi), Museum of Art and Photography (Bangalore), Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022–23, Rowman and Littlefield (Maryland) and Edition Fink (Switzerland). She has written curatorial notes for Kunstkasten Winterthur, Project 88, The Guild, Vadehra Art Gallery, and Experimenter. Najrin’s research interest is situated at the intersection of image histories and archival politics in South Asian art and cinema, particularly found footage, linguistic slippages, and other hauntologies. She holds an MA in Film Programming and Curating from Birkbeck, University of London, with a dissertation focused on the afterlives of film archives in embattled territories.