Diana Campbell
Betancourt, born in Los Angeles in 1984, is
an American curator based in Manila and Dhaka and has been working across
South Asia since 2010. She is the Artistic Director of the SAMDANI ART FOUNDATION
in Dhaka and the Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, which has established
itself in the six years since its inception as a pioneering, non-commercial research
and exhibition platform for contemporary South Asian art. Betancourt has worked
on questions of cross-cultural encounters in public space, and rethinking what
public space might mean in non-Western contexts. She was a Henry Moore
Institute Fellow for 2015–2016, curator in residence at the FRAC
Champagne-Ardenne, a research fellow at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum for 2016,
and has been nominated for the ICI Independent Vision Curatorial Award.
Exhibitions
2018 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy,
Dhaka. 2016 8688, Project 88, Mumbai. You Cannot Cross the Sea
Merely by Staring at the Waves, curated by_Vienna, Krinzinger Projekte,
Wien. Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. Chemical
Theater, Art C, Chennai (IN). 2014 Dhaka Art Summit, Solo Projects,
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. 2013 Audible Forces,
Exhibit 320, New Delhi. I Live Under Your Sky Too, Public Art Project,
Mumbai. 2012 Energy Plus, Shanghai Biennale, Mumbai City Pavilion,
Shanghai (CN). 2010 Natural Renditions, (co-curated with Eric
Gleason) Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY (US).
Publications
Diana Campbell Betancourt (ed.), Dhaka
Art Summit 2016, Mousse Publishing, OCA Norway, 2016.
Diana Campbell Betancourt (ed.), Dhaka Art Summit 2016, Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka 2014.
