Asad Raza

Asad Raza was born in Buffalo, New York and studied literature and film at Johns Hopkins and NYU. He has produced many projects with the artist Tino Sehgal, including This progress at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010) and These associations at Tate Modern, London (2012). Other exhibitions include Este tu for the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2011), This situation for the Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal (2013), and Annlee for Frieze New York (2013). Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Alex Poots, and Sehgal, Raza created Mayfield Depot for the Manchester International Festival (2013). In 2014, Raza produced and directed Sehgal's Estas associoñes at CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, and co-created the dramaturgy for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale for Architecture. Raza's writings have appeared in Minnesota Review, Modern Matter, n+1, NERO,Newspaper Jan Mot, the New York Times, Post Road, and Tennis magazine, and he co-wrote Hans Ulrich Obrist's book Ways of Curating (London: Penguin Press, 2014). Raza has given seminars, lectures, and workshops at universities including the London School of Economics, McGill, NYU, and Princeton.