John Kenneth Paranada is a curator, writer, critic, and researcher whose work examines the relationship between contemporary art, environmental humanities, material culture, climate science, and planetary health. He is Curator at Wellcome Collection in London and a Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), New York.
From 2022 to 2026 he served as the inaugural Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, where he was also a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. His curatorial practice brings together artists, scientists, communities, activists and scholars to explore the cultural and ecological implications of the climate crisis.
He is co-curator of EMAP: Ewha Media Art Presentation, an international moving image biennale at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. His exhibitions and programmes have been presented internationally at institutions including the Sainsbury Centre, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, RAW Material Company in Dakar, the National University of Singapore Museum, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York among others.
Paranada has lectured internationally on art, climate change, and curatorial practice, including keynote talks and presentations for the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), the Museum Association, and universities and museums across Europe, Asia, and the United States. He studied at Sciences Po in Paris, the Zürich University of the Arts, and Goldsmiths, University of London.