Radhika Subramaniam is a curator and writer with an interdisciplinary practice. Through text, exhibitions and public interventions, she explores the poetics and politics of crises and surprises, particularly cities and crowds, migration, walking, art and human-animal relationships. She is the recipient of a Culture and Animals Foundation grant, an International Visiting Curatorship at Artspace, Sydney,  a SEED Foundation Teaching Fellowship in Urban Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, and artist/writer residencies at The Banff Center, Canada and the Hambidge Center. In 2018-2019, she was a fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought. She is presently working on two projects: one, a short book on the Footprint as both a metaphoric and material artifact; and the second, a book about Abu'l Abbas, a medieval elephant, purportedly gifted to emperor Charlemagne by Harun al-Rashid, caliph of Baghdad.

She is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009-2017. Previously, she was the Founding Executive Editor of the the art/politics journal, Connect: art.politics.theory.practice (Arts International) and the Director of Cultural Programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2005-2008).  She has a Masters in Anthropology and a PhD. in Performance Studies.

Contact: rsubramaniam[at]newschool.edu