Christine Tohmé

Christine Tohmé is the Founding Director of Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, a non-profit organization established in 1993. Tohmé curated Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj (2017), and is on the boards of Marsa, a sexual health center in Beirut that provides specialized medical services for at-risk youth and marginalized communities, and SAHA, an association in Istanbul that supports contemporary art from Turkey. Tohmé has received the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture (2018); the CCS Bard Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2015) and a Prince Claus Award (2006), given in recognition of her achievements in supporting local art production and criticism.