Sadaf Padder is a Brooklyn-based independent curator focused on excavating under-recognized contemporary art movements and histories related to the South Asian and Caribbean diasporas. She has curated across the country, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Martha's Vineyard, focusing on themes of social justice, futurism, ecology, and neo-mythology to weave connections between various communities.
Padder is uniquely informed by her background as a public school educator and administrator. Her curatorial work has earned mentions in LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, and Art News and resulted in acquisitions of BIPOC women artists by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and the Nion McEvoy Foundation. She has contributed writing to Visual Aids, ARTSY, Up Mag, and HyperAllergic. In addition, she is a Create Change alumna with the Laundromat Project, a featured curator with ARTSY as well as a 2022-23 Emily J. Hall Tremaine Fellow via Hyperallergic where she presented initial research on South Asian Futurisms. Padder also serves as a board member of the Vera List Center as well as a co-director of Grown in Haiti, a reforestation organization located in the mountains of Jacmel.
