Diana Campbell is a Los Angeles-born curator and writer whose practice focuses on institution building and creating forums for interdisciplinary cultural convenings globally.
She is the Artistic Director of the inaugural edition of the Bukhara Biennial, Recipes for Broken Hearts, launching in September 2025.
Campbell is the Founding Artistic Director of the Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation in Bangladesh, a leading South Asian institution dedicated to fostering the growth of local artists and creating opportunities for profound encounters with Bangladesh. She is the Chief Curator of its flagship project, the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), having led its critically acclaimed editions from 2014 to 2023, and is currently envisioning the next edition.
As Head of Global Initiatives of the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam, she works across expanded notions of collecting, commissioning and collaborating, and is part of the facilitation group of AFIELD, a global network of socially engaged artistic initiatives.
Homo Faber has appointed Campbell as one of their Craft Experts to identify talented artisans in the Asia Pacific region. Previously held curatorial roles include curator of Frieze Projects for Frieze London in 2018-2019 and co-curator of the 2023 edition of Desert X in Coachella Valley.
Maternally of Chamoru descent, Campbell has written extensively on indigeneity, art, and architecture. She has been recognised as one of the most influential figures in the art world by the ArtReview Power100 list (2019-2024) and her writing has been published by Phaidon, MoMa, Frieze and Rizzoli among others.
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