Tamara Khasanova is an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Brooklyn, New York originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan. She was a 2024-25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) and holds an MA degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts.
Her research and curatorial work center emergent aesthetics, pedagogical and discursive practices, and forms of collective knowledge production, oriented toward questions of language, ecology, nuclear legacies and colonial histories. She has curated exhibitions, organized screenings, lectured, and contributed to projects across cultural, publishing, and educational institutions including e-flux, Protocinema, Davra Curatorial Lab, White Columns, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Clark Art Institute, the Queens Museum, and TransitoryWhite, among others.
She currently serves as Studio Director for the artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and is part of the adisciplinary publishing platform Bilna’es.
