Najrin Islam is a film critic and curator currently based in London. Her writings have been featured in Art Review Asia, Talking Shorts magazine, Art Monthly, Momus, and ASAP Connect, among other publications. She is a recipient of the Art Scribes Award (2022) and the Art Writer's Award (2018), and has attended residencies at Château de la Napoule, France (2023) and Villa Sträuli, Switzerland (2019). She has written for catalogues and anthologies by Serendipity Arts Foundation (New Delhi), the Museum of Art and Photography (Bangalore), the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022–23, Rowman and Littlefield (Maryland), and Edition Fink (Switzerland).

Najrin is interested in colonial infrastructures in global majority contexts, including archival politics in South Asian art and cinema. She holds an MA in Film Programming and Curating from Birkbeck, University of London, and is currently working as a Selection Committee Member with the London Short Film Festival. She is also an alumna of the Talking Shorts European Workshop for New Curators #2 and the BFI Critics Mentorship Programme 2025.