International Curators Forum (ICF) was founded in 2007 to promote, encourage and develop curatorial and artistic practice and discourse about contemporary visual arts across all forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, film and live performance art. ICF does this through commissioning, programming and presenting exhibitions, projects and events that promote and support the professional development and expertise of curators and artists at all stages of their professional career. ICF’s professional development programmes also involve international networking trips, masterclasses, residencies and mentoring. 

The 2016-18 programmes Diaspora Pavilion and Beyond the Frame were nationally and internationally notable for their innovative proposals and approaches to addressing professional development and cultural diversity. The organisation also curates exhibitions and events that address diasporic culture in a global context, examples of which include: Tactical Interventions (Venice, Kassel, Munster, Istanbul in 2007), The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (Sydney Biennial in 2010), Caribbean Pavilion (Liverpool Biennial in 2010), Black Diaspora Visual Art (2011-2), Curating the International Diaspora (London, Gwangju, Sharjah, Barbados and Martinique 2016-7) and Diaspora Pavilion (Venice, Wolverhampton 2017-8).