Or Tshuva (she/her) is a curator, writer, and art consultant based in Manchester, where in 2022 she founded the Arts Council England-funded 422 Arts. She is currently an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) M4C doctoral researcher in curating and cultural policy at the Birmingham School of Art and the University of Warwick. Her research examines curatorial reframings of publicness, sustainability, and social responsibility within arts organisations in times of polycrisis.  Before that, she was a curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, where between 2016-2021, she curated large-scale exhibitions and commissioned new artworks and interventional projects for the museum's collection gallery. Her curatorial projects were exhibited at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, IN), Jerusalem Design Week, Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) gallery at Liverpool John Moores University, Artport Tel Aviv, Beit Hagefen: Arab-Jewish Cultural Centre, and more. As a writer, researcher, and curatorial resident, she has collaborated with institutions including MuCEM (Marseille), Liverpool Biennial, Residency Unlimited (New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and OnCurating, contributing texts, research and public programming. 

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Or is passionate about organisational rethinking and works with artists and organisations to facilitate meaningful public engagement and reimagine institutional practices. Her work is often site and context-specific and responds to a certain need or question raised by the community or place itself. She specialises in developing new commissions and research-based projects spanning new media, installation, and performance. Her writings and curatorial projects have previously dealt with activism, memory, commemoration, global histories, decolonial practices, feminism, institutional critique and globalisation.

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Or gained her master's degree with distinction from Goldsmiths University of London's Visual Cultures department and a postgraduate diploma in Arts and Cultural Management from Tel Aviv University. She was a lecturer in curatorial studies at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and the Arts in Tel Aviv, a visiting lecturer in Museology and Curatorial Studies at Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University, and a guest speaker at the Manchester School of Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, HaMidrasha School of Art, and King's College London.

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In 2017, she co-authored (together with Danielle Heiblum) the book 'Altering Narratives: Essential Political Practices in Visual Culture', which won a Lottery Fund research grant for new publications in visual culture. 

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