Orsod Malik

Education

2016–2017 MA International Journalism, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

2013–2016 BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (First), University of Brighton

Experience

2026–Ongoing Judging Panelist, Caine Prize for African Writing (contracted)

2025–Ongoing Trustee, The Common Guild

2023–Ongoing Executive Director, Stuart Hall Foundation

2025–2026 Artist Mentor, Moving Narratives Fellowship, Prince Claus Fund (contracted)

2023–2024 Research Fellow, Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva)

2021–2023 Curator and Digital Strategist, International Curators Forum (part-time)

2021–2022 Digital Archivist-in-Residence, Library of Africa and the African Diaspora

2020–2023 Curator, Stuart Hall Foundation (part-time)

Curated Programmes

2025 Moving Narratives Fellowship, Cycle 2, Prince Claus Fund & British Council

2025 In Search of Common Ground, annual programme, Stuart Hall Foundation

2024 Catastrophe and Emergence, annual programme, Stuart Hall Foundation

2023–Ongoing Shifting the Centre, archive activation project, International Curators Forum

2023–Ongoing Living Archives: Intergenerational Conversations Between Artists (podcast), Stuart Hall
Foundation x International Curators Forum

2022 Stuart Hall Library Residency, Stuart Hall Foundation × Institute of International
Visual Arts (iniva)

2022 Locating Legacies (podcast), Stuart Hall Foundation × Pluto Press

2021–2022 Contextualising Climate Crisis, commissioned writings, Stuart Hall Foundation

2021 Imagined Futures, commissioned writings, Stuart Hall Foundation

Curated Exhibitions

2023 (Mar–Jun) Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference, Black Cultural Archives
International Curators Forum, London

2023 (Sep–Dec) Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing, Institute of International Visual Arts
(iniva), International Curators Forum, London

Workshops / Lectures / Interviews

2025 Presentation: Insisting on Another Horizon, Library Session, The Common Guild

2025 Panel Discussion: Ways of Seeing Fanon, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

2025 Workshop: Working With and Against History, Prince Claus Fund

2025 Workshop: Contested Narratives, Prince Claus Fund

2024 Lecture: Curating Shared Histories, University College London (UCL)

2023 Panel Discussion: Routes into Curatorial Practice, Black Curatorial Labs

2023 Interview: Locating Legacies, Pluto Press

2023 Panel Discussion: Telling Stories, Black South West Network (BSWN)

2022 Panel Discussion: Digital Showcase, Glasgow School of Art (GSA)

Published Writings

2025 Lumumba’s Speech: Lessons in Seizing the Archive, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

2022 Disorderly Pronouncements, Diaspora Pavilion II exhibition text,
International Curators Forum

2022 The Politics of Constituting a Transnational Anticolonial Archive,
Library of Africa and the African Diaspora

2022 Perpetually Becoming: A Diasporic Approach to Anticolonial Archiving,
Library of Africa and the African Diaspora

2021 Curating the Contemporaneity of the Black Radical Archive,
Non-Fiction Journal, Open City Documentary Film Festival