Habda Rashid

Habda Rashid is the Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge) and a Wolfson College Fellow. She was formerly a Senior Curator at Create London (2019–2021) and part of the curatorial department at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Research Interests: Her work focuses on post-colonial complexities of genealogies and geographies in art history, the intersection of colonial legacy and the climate crisis, and redefining the term 'global' in artistic practices. She actively promotes diverse representation in art collections and commissions new works by emerging British artists.

Academic & Professional Contributions: She has curated groundbreaking exhibitions like Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place (first major show by a Black artist at the Fitzwilliam Museum) and Paint Like The Swallow Sings Calypso (uniting Kettle’s Yard and Fitzwilliam collections). She has taught on MFA programmes at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths University, and served as a 2025 Turner Prize Jury member.