Suheyla Takesh

Suheyla Takesh is the Director of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, where she oversees curatorial and scholarly initiatives to expand the visibility and critical engagement with modern and contemporary Arab art through exhibitions, research and publication projects. Since joining the foundation in 2013, she has curated numerous exhibitions internationally, and contributed essays to exhibition catalogues and peer-reviewed journals. She is the co-editor of volumes like Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s (2020), The Life and Work of Inji Efflatoun (2025), and Resonant Histories: India and the Arab World (2026). Suheyla holds a master’s degree from the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art (HTC) program at MIT.