Lebt und arbeitet in London und Maastricht.Co-Kurator Documenta11.
Professor für Kunstgeschichte und -theorie, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Research Project Fellow, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht.
Rudolf Arnheim-Professur, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
University of Reading, Großbritannien. Promotion 1985 mit der Arbeit: "The Dialectic of Modernism and Mass Culture: Studies in Postwar British Art".
University of South Africa, Witwatersrand (und Prüfung in Amsterdam). Master of Arts. University of South Africa, Durban. (For Blacks of Indian Origin).
Studium der Kunstgeschichte, der Schönen Künste und Englisch.
Bachelor of Art.
2001
Optical.Retinal.Visual.Conceptual. Museum Boijmanns van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
2000-02
Xeno-sonics. Arc en Réve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux.
2000
Textiles 2000 (mit Yinka Shonibare).
1997-98
In(ter)dependence: India and the aura of the hand-made in the age of digital reproduction, 1998.
New Contemporaries. Cornerhouse, Manchester 1997
Camden Art Centre 1997
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow 1997-98. Kurator (mit Hans-Ulrich Obrist & Gillian Wearing).
2000
Retinal Regimes and Colonial Art Schooling.
Kunsthalle Bern, Schweiz (14.6.).
Dissolvent Rationality & Dissolvent Retinality:
Art in the post-post-Gutenberg mega-visual system.
The Enlightenment International Symposium, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (27.5.).
China Sutras. Production sites of visual arts knowledge.
Symposium on New Asia Museum, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Visual Regimes: Production sites of visual arts knowledge.
Art Academies Honju, Shanghai, Beijing, Kwangju, China und Taipeh, Taiwan.
Historical Perspectives on Black & Asian Art in Britain.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (3.3.).
Global Production: National Clichés & Local Differences.
Madrid (14.2.).
1999
A-vidya or Non-Knowledge in the Visual Arts arena.
Paper to Art, Academies of Scandinavia, Stockholm (4.12.).
No place for cosmopolitans?
Nexus Conference, University of Tilburg, Niederlande (1), New York (2), Jerusalem (3), Neu Delhi (4) (8.10.99 - 2000).
George Perec: Order & The Dislocuted Archive.
Symposium on ethnographical practices. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (26.6.).
Publikationen
Dislocations. Interim entries for a Dictionaire Élémentaire on cultural translation. In: Reverberations, Hg. Jean Fisher, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht 2000.
Sounding difference. Über den Umgang mit kultureller Differenz ....die kulturelle Übersetzung. In: Springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Band V1, Wien 2000.
Dislocations. In: Circa. Irish & International Contemporary Art. Frühjahr 1991. (English revised and extended version).
Fatal natalities: on cultural translation. Artspace, Sydney 2000.
Publikationen In Vorbereitung
Work in Pre-gross. Essays, anti-essays and para-epistemologies. Selected experimental writing by Sarat Maharaj, Design: Typosophic Society, Iniva/Arts Council of England.
A double-cressing, visible grammar. The Robert Lehrman lecture. DIA Foundation, New York.
A Strife of Tongues: Richard Hamilton/Marcel Duchamp/James Joyce. Textrecherche unterstütz von by Sarat Maharaj designed von Richard Hamilton. Typosophic Society/Springer Press, Wien und Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart. Leverhulme Trust & Arts Council of Great Britain & The British Academy. Kapitel 2 von A Strife of Tongues ist erschienen in The Duchamp Effect (MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 1997).
semi-semitic serendipitist...you...Europasiansied Afferyank!: xeno-sounding, cultural translation, difference and clitorality.
NERVE series editiert von Sue Golding für Routledge.
Circum-hyper-hypo typotranslating the White Box. Text zu Lingua Franca.
English/French typotranslation of Marcel Duchamp’s White Box notes, Typosophic Society, Wien/London.
China Sutras. Retinalism and global conceptualism in the field of Post-colonial Visual Art Schooling. Sussex University Press/Universität Wien.