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Deena Chalabi

Deena Chalabi joined the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as Associate Curator of Public Practice in January 2014. From 2009 to 2012 she was the founding Head of Strategy at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. She co-curated the inaugural exhibition of Mathaf’s permanent collection and was responsible for developing the museum’s public presence across several platforms. She created the ‘Pop-Up Mathaf’ program for collaborative international partnerships, curating Interference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in July 2011. She guest curated three additional Pop-Up Mathaf programs, partnering with the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in 2012 and with the Serpentine Galleries and the Liverpool Biennial in 2013. She has written for Bidoun, ArtAsiaPacific, and The New Inquiry, among other publications. Deena received her BA in Social Studies from Harvard University and her Masters from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.