Professor Omar Kholeif

Omar Kholeif is an artist, author, curator, cultural historian and professor of global art theory and practice at the Glasgow School of Art and Program Leader of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice with the University of Glasgow.

They work and operate under numerous guises, including as the avatar of Doctor O—The World’s Leading Pop Physician (TM).
Born in Cairo, Egypt, they were raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Los Angeles, CA, and elsewhere. An author of over two dozen volumes on art, a curator of over 100 exhibitions, they are the co-founding director of artPost21, a not-for-profit publishing and broadcast platform for artists and their dreamwork.

Their recent books include, Nil Yalter: Circular Tension (2024), Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams (2024) and Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (2023).

In 2025 their long-awaited critical biography on Huguette Caland was published as part of imagine/otherwise. Forthcoming in 2026 is Luísa Correia Pereira: World Child, published by Sternberg Press. Forthcoming projects include the curated group exhibition, Fellow Travelers at Tabari Art Space, Dubaiand a survey exhibition of their creative practice at The Third Line curated by Sofia Victorino.
Zoe Pettijohn Schade
Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s densely researched, seductively beautiful drawings and paintings of varying size explore the scientific, art historical, and philosophical aspects of pattern. Her lifelong repertoire of work rests on the premise that the pursuit of form,...
George Widener
George Widener’s artwork is as intellectually challenging as it is aesthetically compelling. A high-functioning savant who has channeled his extraordinary gifts of numerical computation into artmaking, Widener struggled for years before his talent was recognized. Born...
Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl
Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl is a ceramic artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked with a myriad of spatial themes and ornaments that frequently reoccur in his formal vocabulary, and which emerge through a methodical, gradual and experimental serial process....
Ted Gahl
Ted Gahl creates intuitive paintings of varying scale, embedding and juxtaposing personal imagery of the present alongside art historical influences of the past. Gahl’s paintings often read as elements of subconscious activities–reveries, dreams, and memories, while...
Nicolas Hatfull
Portrait of Nicholas Hatfull. Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York. Nicholas Hatfull (born in Tokyo, Japan) is a painter who lives and works in Norwich, UK. Hatfull’s first solo exhibition in the United States, titled Shades, is on view at Dracula’s...
Nicolas Hatfull
Portrait of Nicholas Hatfull. Courtesy of the artist and Dracula’s Revenge, New York. Nicholas Hatfull (born in Tokyo, Japan) is a painter who lives and works in Norwich, UK. Hatfull’s first solo exhibition in the United States, titled Shades, is on view at Dracula’s...
Luciana Abait
Luciana Abait was born in Argen1na and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her mul1media works deal with climate change, environmental awareness and displacement issues facing immigrants. Abait’s artworks have been shown widely in the United States, Europe, La1n...
Victor Boullet
Victor Boullet (b.1969, Oslo, Norway) lives and works in London, UK and Oslo, Norway. His exhibition at the gallery consisted of two “chapters”. The first 4 weeks with paintings installed. The remaining 2 weeks, the paintings were stacked in a corner...
Erin Milez
Erin Milez, Courtesy of the artist and Monya Rowe Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Lorin Gallery, LA; Arsenal...
Charles Atlas
photograph by Lori E. Seid Charles Atlas was born in St. Louis, MO in 1949; he has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. Recent solo exhibitions include The Mathematics of Consciousness, a 100-foot long video installation commissioned by Pioneer...
