Ian Sergeant
Dr Ian Sergeant is the Senior Curator (Global Majority Collections), Birmingham Museums Trust.
He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Heritage and Nation, Decolonising
Arts Institute, University of the Arts London (2022-24).
He is Co-Artistic Director of performing and visual arts company Kalaboration CIC and Co-Founder of SOMA a purpose-built mobile collection of books, journals, ephemera, archival materials, niche publications, exhibition catalogues, rare texts, and films that centre on Black art and artists.
He is the Chair of media practice-based arts organisation Vivid Projects, and an Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham.
Curated exhibitions, projects and events include:
The more things change…, (Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2023); …Like a short cut through the brambles, (Coventry Biennial 2023-24); Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots and Birthing, (Birmingham 2022 Festival 2022); Interference:s, (Coventry Biennial 2021); Cut & Mix, (New Art Exchange 2021); Donald Rodney at Celine Gallery, (Glasgow International 2021); Reimaging Donald Rodney, (Vivid Projects 2016).
