Waqas Wajahat specializes in Post-War & Contemporary Art with over fifteen years of hands-on experience in museums and art galleries.  He has mounted numerous exhibitions and managed artists and artist estates at the John McEnroe Gallery and Knoedler & Company and continues to do so since establishing Waqas Wajahat • New York in 2004.  In addition to a strong focus on museum exhibitions and projects, Waqas Wajahat • New York works closely with a select group of collections, foundations and museums on fine art acquisitions.

After studying Art History at the University of Pennsylvania and the Barnes Foundation, Waqas Wajahat gained curatorial experience at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is one of the founding trustees of the DUMBO Arts Center in Brooklyn, where he fostered the growth of emerging artists by curating shows and raising funds for the exhibitions program. Years of experience in the field have enabled him to forge key partnerships with museums and other exhibition spaces which he continues to maintain in order to bring vital exposure to emerging and established artists. Since 2004, he has also helped raise funds to support exhibition programs, acquisitions and publications at several non-profit institutions including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati.

Waqas Wajahat has served on various art advisory committees and juries including the Maine Biennial and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) in Philadelphia. He has been a guest lecturer and visiting critic at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, Boston University College of Fine Arts, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Williams College.