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Al Jaddaf & Waterfront · Dubai

Jameel Arts Centre

Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to Jameel Arts Centre.

Advisors

Patrons, advisors, and independent contributors.

Christopher Lee

Advisor

Christopher Lee is one of the more intellectually distinctive architects of his generation — a designer and theorist who has built a global practice on a single idea: that new architecture should be reasoned out from the deep history of building "types" rather than invented as spectacle. His own story is improbable. Born into a poor family in a small town in Malaysia and ethnically Chinese, he left after his GCSEs on a Singaporean government scholarship — a route that bound him to Singapore for years and shaped a career later spent moving between continents. He went on to take the AA Diploma with Honours in London, win a RIBA President's Medal commendation, and earn a doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Berlage Institute and TU Delft. In 2008 he co-founded Serie Architects with Kapil Gupta, starting out, unusually, by winning international open competitions across India and the UK at the height of globalisation — Lee calls Serie a "third-generation" global practice, distinct from the signature-style studios that came before. The firm now works from London, Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing, with a portfolio focused on cultural, civic and educational buildings: the BMW London 2012 Olympic Pavilion, Singapore's State Courts, the National University of Singapore's School of Design and Environment, and the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai among them. Alongside practice he is a serious academic, currently Arthur Rotch Design Critic at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and formerly director of the AA's Projective Cities programme, and in 2017 he was named a Mayor's Design Advocate for London. Across all of it runs the same conviction — that the most resonant buildings are the ones that understand the city they enter.

Partners

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Antonia Carver

Partner

Antonia Carver is one of the most influential figures in the Gulf art world, and the person who has shaped Art Jameel's public identity. A British arts leader who began her career in publishing and criticism — she edited and wrote on Middle Eastern art and film, and contributed to outlets including Bidoun — she became director of Art Dubai in 2010, building the fair into the central commercial event of the regional calendar over five editions. In 2016 she moved to lead Art Jameel as director, and oversaw the creation of its first permanent home, Jameel Arts Centre, working so closely with the architects that she advised on everything from materials to gallery layout, insisting on a flexible, kunsthalle-style space built around artists and audiences rather than spectacle. Under her direction Art Jameel has expanded across the region, opening Hayy Jameel in Jeddah and forging partnerships with institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is regularly cited among the most consequential cultural figures in the Middle East — a curator, editor and institution-builder whose career tracks the rise of the UAE art scene itself.