Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator based in Stockholm and Kiruna. Since 2023, she has been the director of the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna. From 2020 to 2023 she served as the counsellor of culture at the embassy of Sweden in Moscow. She was the director of Stockholm’s Tensta konsthall (2011–18), the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008–10), and director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005–07). She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as a professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo (2015–18), and as a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab.