His curatorial work and research focus on modern and contemporary art of South Asia through diverse itineraries, languages and inter-disciplinary formations.
Prior to Ishara, he was a Senior Researcher and Projects Manager at the Asia Art Archive where he was involved in the establishing of AAA in India (AAA in I) in New Delhi. He was a Curatorial Collegiate member of the 11th Shanghai Biennale ‘Why Not Ask Again?’ curated by Raqs Media Collective in 2016, and on the Collegium of ‘Five Million Incidents’ conceived by Raqs and organised by the Goethe Institut, Delhi & Kolkata (2019). Ahmed served as a Visiting Faculty at the Ambedkar University Delhi and is on the Advisory Board of Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, Delhi from 2014-2019. His writings have been published in Art Cabinet, Mousse, The Whitworth and Oncurating. Ahmed’s curatorial and research projects have included the digitisation of artist archives, compilation of digital bibliographies across languages, and colloquia and seminars around artistic, archival and educational resources globally. Most recently, together with Sandhini Poddar he has co-curated ‘Notations On Time’ running at the Ishara Art Foundation from 18 January – 20 May 2023.