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Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson is the curator for the Middle East and North Africa collections at the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the Iraqi artist Hafidh Druby (1914–91) and alternative aesthetic modernities in the Middle East. She won the Rhonda A. Saad Prize in 2017, for her doctoral research on the links between archaeology and modernity in Iraq. Previously, she was a curator of Islamic collections at the British Museum in London, where she worked on the modern and contemporary collections from the Middle East and assisted with the curation of the inaugural exhibition at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. She was also a researcher for the Middle East collections at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC.
Contact: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Steenstraat 1, 2312 BS Leiden, the Netherlands.