Salah Hassan is a Goldwin Smith professor and the director of the Africana Studies & Research Center, a professor of African & African Diaspora Art History & Visual Culture at Cornell University's faculty of Art History & Visual Culture. He also works as a curator and art critic.
Prior to joining Cornell University, Hassan taught at the art history faculties of the State University of New York (Buffalo, USA), the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of Fine and Applied Art (Khartoum, Sudan).
He is the founder and an editor of NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and serves as a consulting editor for African Arts and Atlantica.
Hassan was involved with several exhibitions, such as Authentic/Ex-Centric: Africa in & out of Africa, at the 49th Biennial of Venice.

Salah Hassan was an editor and author for several publications, such as Unpacking Europe: towards a critical reading (Rotterdam, NAi Publishers, 2001); Authentic/Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art (2001); Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists (1997); Art & Islamic Literacy Among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria (1992).
Hassan is currently working on his latest book Khartoum School: The Making of the Modern Art Movement in Sudan.