Aya Mousawi

Aya Mousawi is a cultural strategist with 17+ years experience delivering major international projects, exhibitions, and public programmes throughout the world. Recently, Mousawi was a Curator for the Ministry of Culture Innovation department, and was Head of Curation for Noor Riyadh 2023.

2020-22 Mousawi led the Curatorial and Programme strategy for the new Jeddah Museum under Heatherwick Studio and was Director of Cultural Program for Aorist. In 2012, Mousawi co-founded The Moving Museum delivering city wide projects in Dubai, London and Istanbul. Mousawi has been Consultant Strategist for Art Basel Cities in Buenos Aires, was Assistant Curator founding team member of Edge of Arabia and has continued working with the region designing and delivering curatorial programming for RCU, Misk Art Institute, ATHR, Ithra and Culturunners.

Over her career, Mousawi has commissioned works by leading artists including Ahmed Mater, Manal AlDowayan, Random International, Michael Rakowitz, Abdulnasser Gharem, Studio DRIFT, Refik Anadol, Nancy Baker Cahill, and Tai Shani.