Waqas Wajahat specializes in Post-War & Contemporary Art and has over fifteen years of hands-on experience in museums and art galleries, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has 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.

Working closely with a select group of collectors, corporations and museums on fine art acquisitions, Waqas Wajahat also partners with diverse exhibition spaces to bring vital exposure to emerging and established artists.  For the past several years he has actively collected contemporary works on paper and helped raise funds to support exhibition programs, acquisitions and publications at several non-profit institutions. These include the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati.

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. 

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.