Atif F. Sheikh
Curator & Director

Atif Sheikh is the co-founder of 12Gates and serves as a resident curator. Sheikh has curated several art exhibitions at 12Gates since 2010, the latest being "Sites of Ruin" (2023). He has also co-curated exhibitions like "New Asian Futurisms" at Asian Arts Initiative in 2019 and "Breathing Room" at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in 2020. In addition to his curatorial work, he has twice served on the jury for the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, participated in Fleisher Art Memorial’s Wind Challenge Exhibition in 2019, and contributed to the 12G Contemporary Video Arts Exhibition since 2015.  He holds a Master’s degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester.