CAIRO CLARKE 

OCT 2025

Independent Curator

Cairo Clarke is a contemporary art curator and writer focused on embodied decolonial practices. Her work is informed by slowness, centering forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground and take on multiple temporalities. Her approach supports strands of theorising taking place in autonomous spaces and holding space for the mess.

Cairo has worked closely with artists to develop and share instances of work across film, performance, printed matter and exhibition on international levels. She has extensive experience across community outreach, youth education, and mentoring.

Cairo was the 2020/21 Curatorial Fellow at LUX curating a year of programming and editing the book this broken piece of yard published in 2022. She was a research associate for iniva’s Archipelagos in Reverse Research Network, In 2019 she launched SITE, a publication and curatorial project exploring alternative encounters with artist practice and the dissemination of research.