Alice Correia curates an online exhibition of British-Asian photographer Mumtaz Karimjee

Dr Alice Correia, lecturer of modern and contemporary British Art, has curated the first retrospective consideration of Mumtaz Karimjee’s career as an artist and curator.

Mumtaz Karimjee: Making Visible is an open access online exhibition, published as part of the landmark special issue of British Art Studies, Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s, edited by Fiona Anderson, Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon and Laura Guy.

Trained as a linguist, Mumtaz Karimjee was a self-taught photographer and during the 1980s was a central figure in feminist and queer activism. She curated the first exhibition of female Indian photographers in the UK, was a key-member of Mukti, a grassroots feminist magazine produced by and for women of South Asian heritage, and her photography was included in exhibition of Black women artists curated by Lubaina Himid.

Her work was recently included in Women in Revolt at the Whitworth, but Correia’s exhibition, Mumtaz Karimjee: Making Visible is the first solo presentation of Karimjee’s work in over 30 years.