Diana Campbell Betancourt

Diana Campbell Betancourt is an American curator based in Manila and Dhaka; she has been working across South Asia since 2010. She is artistic director of the Samdani Art Foundation in Dhaka and 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 nominee for the ICI Independent Vision Curatorial Award. Concurrently with her work in Bangladesh, she is artistic director of Bellas Artes Projects (PH), and chairs the board of the Mumbai Art Room (IN).

Exhibitions
2018 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. Out of Body: Bruce Conner, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila and Bataan (PH). 2017 High Noon at Cagayan Garden, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila. Raqib Shaw, The Whitworth, London. Nazareno, Quiapo Constellations, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila. Prelude: Carlos Amorales, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila. 2016 8688, Project 88, Mumbai. You Cannot Cross the Sea Merely by Staring at the Waves, curated by_Vienna, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna. Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. Chemical Theater, Art C, Chennai (IN).

Publications
Diana Campbell Betancourt (ed.): Dhaka Art Summit 2016, OCA Norway, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2016.
Diana Campbell Betancourt (ed.): Dhaka Art Summit 2016, Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka 2014.

www.dhakaartsummit.org
www.samdani.com.bd
www.bellasartesprojects.com