Aziz Sohail is a curator, writer and researcher whose work builds interdisciplinary connections between art, history, archives, literature, theory and biography and supports new cultural and pedagogical infrastructures. Their research and resultant projects honour and recognise the power of queer & feminist collectivity, sociability, joy and wayward encounter.


Since 2020, with The Many Headed Hydra, they have been co-leading a language where yesterday are the same word. Kal, a trans*oceanic platform supporting practices enacting queer pasts/futures and decolonial ecologies in South Asia and post-migrant Europe, which has had residencies and presentations in Berlin, Karachi, Colombo and Philadelphia as well as a radio channel and a series of workshops and publications. Other projects include Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas (2022), at the ONE Archives/USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles co-organised with Alexis Bard Johnson, Very Very Sweet Medina: Artistic Innovation in 1990s Karachi (2019) at the Sharjah Art Foundation, co-organised with Bani Abidi and the forthcoming The World that Belongs to Us (2023), at The New Art Gallery Walsall, England. Their practice has been supported by a multi-year grant from the Asian Cultural Council, New York (2019-2022).


Sohail has given and moderated talks and events globally including at the Stanford University, Center for South Asia, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Paul Mellon Center, London, University of California, Santa Barbara, Brandeis University, Waltham and the Beall Center for Art+Technology, Irvine. They have been part of residencies and workshops with Cornell University, Ithaca (2017), Khoj, New Delhi (2018), the Nepal Picture Library (2019), Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (2019) and ICA Philadelphia/Raw Material Company, Dakar (2022). They have previously worked with organizations such as the British Council and the Lahore Biennale Foundation to build new cultural initiatives and spaces in Pakistan.