Curator Talk: John Tain

Join us to welcome John Tain, art historian and Curator of the inaugural 2024 Lahore Biennale for a conversation about his curatorial practice.  

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental welcomes visiting curators to engage with our local arts ecology through studio visits, public programs and publication writing. Guest speakers are invited to share their professional practice and experiences through convivial conversation.

Through this exchange with a committed audience ACE Curator Talks are an opportunity to connect and network with prominent arts leaders fostering a platform for rigorous discussion on curation and exhibition-making.

About John Tain

John Tain is an art historian and Curator of the 2024 Lahore Biennale. As Head of Research at Asia Art Archive (AAA, 2017-2023), his projects included AAA’s contribution to documenta fifteen (2022); the Art Schools of Asia seminar and symposium (2021-22); the exhibition Crafting Communities (2020), devoted to Thailand-based Womanifesto; and MAHASSA (Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, 2019-2020), a collaboration with the Dhaka Art Summit and the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. He has served as a series editor for Afterall’s Exhibition Histories, and is a co-editor for the Intersecting Modernisms project, with Pamela Corey, Iftikhar Dadi, Salah Hassan, Mari-Carmen Ramirez, and Ming Tiampo. He also serves as an advisor for Asia Forum, an ongoing collateral event at the Venice Biennale.  He was previously a curator for modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2007-2017).

This project is supported by Arts South Australia, Art Space and the Keir Foundation.