Kamiliah Bahdar (b. 1988) is an independent curator living and working in Singapore.  She graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Monash University, Australia, where she majored in Anthropology.  Her honours thesis was on ethnicity, adat and identity politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia.  Her first foray into curating came soon after when she became a participant in Curating Lab 2012, a programme organised by NUS Museum to train young curators.  In 2015, she pursued an MA (Res) specialising in spaces of the curatorial at Nanyang Technological University, where she wrote a thesis on microresidences in Indonesia, with a focus on how residency programmes support contemporary art practices.  Never forgetting her anthropology training, she has always looked at art through the lens of culture and society.