Manar Abo Touk منار أبو طوق (she/her) is a Syrian-born independent curator and PhD candidate in Art History at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her doctoral research explores contemporary Syrian art in the diaspora, with a focus on memory, displacement, and anti-violent image-making. Her practice engages with themes of trauma, ecological care, and the role of multisensory aesthetics in anticolonial and diasporic contexts.

With over a decade of experience in the international arts sector, she has curated more than thirty exhibitions and collaborated with over a 100 artists across the SWANA region, Europe, and Turtle Island. Her practice is grounded in cross-cultural storytelling and political aesthetics, and is shaped by methodologies of slowness and attentive listening. Across her curatorial projects, she advocates for collaborative approaches to exhibition-making grounded in care, community, and political sensitivity. She has held positions as the Arts Manager and Curator at Al Riwaq Art Space in the Kingdom of Bahrain and Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Treaty 8, Alberta.

Abo Touk previously served on the Board of CARFAC Alberta and has actively contributed to curatorial projects that highlight underrepresented voices, contemporary artistic experimentation, and the role of art in shaping collective memory. She is currently Managing Editor of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA).