Nora Khan
Critic; Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial, 2026; Educator.
- Role
- Curator at Counterpublic
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nora Khan
Nora N. Khan is an independent critic, essayist, curator, editor, and educator. She is internationally recognized for her essays and short books, marked by a hybrid, genre-defiant prose style. Formally, this work attempts to both theorize the limits of algorithmic knowledge and outline the future of creative production in a technocratic age. Her writing has been supported by a Critical Writing Grant given through the Visual Arts Foundation and the Crossed Purposes Foundation, the Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and residencies at La Becque, Eyebeam, and Fogo Island Arts. Early writing awards included the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, awarded annually to Harvard University undergraduates \"for outstanding scholarly work or research by students\" and the Iowa Arts Fellowship, a prestigious one-year award supporting her time as an MFA student at the Iowa Writers\' Workshop.Her book Seeing, Naming, Knowing (Brooklyn Rail, 2019) focused on machine vision and generative image production. With Steven Warwick, she wrote Fear Indexing the X-Files (Primary Information, 2017), on online conspiracy theories and fan forum culture. Forthcoming are AI Art, Machine Learning, and the Stakes for Art Criticism (Lund Humphries), The Artificial and the Real (Art Metropole), and a memoir about criticism through Strange Attractor Press. She has written over 200 features, essays, interviews, and long-form reviews. Significant essays on Tony Conrad, Gretchen Bender, Josh Kline, Sondra Perry, Ian Cheng, and Kevin Beasley have been published in internationally-distributed magazines, books, and catalogs for Serpentine Galleries, Chisenhale Gallery, Centre Pompidou, and Swiss Institute.From 2024 to 2025, she served as Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts. Khan was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching at Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a professor in Digital + Media from 2018 to 2021. She was a contributing editor (20••••21) at Rhizome and served as guest editor of HOLO, producing the well-received Mirror Stage; Between Computability and its Opposite (2021).Khan is part of the 2026 Curatorial Ensemble of Counterpublic, one of the nation’s largest public exhibitions. She was the Co-Curator with Andrea Bellini of the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement 2024, A Cosmic Movie Camera, hosted by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. The edition was the highest-attended in the biennale’s history. She organized and curated Manual Override at The Shed in 2020; the exhibition saw visitors in 2 months.
Experience
Curator
Sep 2024 — Present · St Louis, MO, US
Member of the Curatorial Collective for the 2026 Edition of Counterpublic, one of the nation\'s largest public exhibitions.
Education
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Fiction
2006 — 2008
Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General; History and Literature
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