Tausif Noor is a critic, curator, and PhD student in History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing appears in publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Aperture, frieze, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, as well as in various artist catalogues and edited volumes. He is the recipient of a 2022 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing and the 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. He has previously worked at the Imperial War Museum London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the ICA Philadelphia, and is currently Curatorial Associate at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.