Grant Watson is a Tutor in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London, and Theory Tutor at the Dutch Art Institute. He has a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, London, and was recipient of the 2019/20 BAK Fellowship.

His curatorial work involves both long-term interview projects and exhibition strands. Including How We Behave (2012–) and Folded Life: Talking Textile Politics (2021–), his interviews explore radical life practice within the framework of a collective politics. Exhibitions have reflected on left histories, the politics of textiles, modern and contemporary Indian art and the transcultural, through collaborations with artists and critical readings of archives.