Kamiliah Bahdar is a cultural worker based in Singapore. She has worked across numerous exhibitions, programmes and projects as curator, organiser, collaborator, researcher and writer. She graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Monash University, Australia, where she majored in Anthropology, having written a thesis on identity politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Her first foray into curating was as a participant in Curating Lab 2012, a programme organised by NUS Museum to train young curators. In 2015, she pursued an MA at Nanyang Technological University where she wrote a thesis on micro-residences in Indonesia, with a focus on how residency programmes support contemporary art practices. She received the inaugural 2017 IMPART Awards for the curator category. Never forgetting her anthropology training, she has always looked at art through the lens of culture and society. She is currently a curator for the art collection and programmes at SMU Libraries, Singapore Management University, and exploring a new cycle of her curatorial practice focussing on the role of art in education, support structures and community building.