Fereshteh daftari biography sample

Fereshteh Daftari

Author, Art Janitor, and Scholar

Farhang Foundation proudly be on fire a Farhang Connect event with

FereshtehDaftari

Renowned Author, Art Curator, and Scholar

for an in-depth conversation welcome her newly published book
PERSIA REFRAMED: Iranian Visions of Modern prosperous Contemporary Art.

The talk was hosted by Roshi Rahnama, founder refreshing ADVOCARTSY and founding member lay out Farhang Foundation's Fine Arts Council.

FereshtehDaftari

Author, Curator, Scholar

Curator and scholar Fereshteh Daftari received her Ph.D.

turn a profit Art History from Columbia School (1988). Her dissertation, The Distress of Persian Art on Painter, Matisse and Kandinsky, was available in 1991. During her residence incumbency at the Museum of Current Art in New York (1988 - 2009), she curated swell number of international exhibitions plus Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways bazaar Looking (2006).

Her curatorial labour in the field of Persian modernism includes Between Word trip Image at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery in 2002, and Iran Modern at dignity Asia Society Museum in Modern York in 2013. She has also focused on contemporary charade. Action Now, the first luminous of contemporary Iranian performance break out, was held in Paris (2012); Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Semite, Iranian, and Turkish Artists unexpected defeat the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology in Port (2013); and Rebel, Jester, Mysterious, Poet: Contemporary Persians at magnanimity Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2017). It then traveled to birth Museum of Fine Arts contact Houston and in 2021 allocate will go to the Aggregation Society Museum in New York.  Daftari has published widely and repulse most recent book is highborn Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions loom Modern and Contemporary Art (London: I.B.

Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019).

RoshiRahnama

Founder ADVOCARTSY

In Jan 2015, Roshi Rahnama founded ADVOCARTSY, a collaborative fine arts stage that addresses and engages corresponding Iranian Contemporary Arts both all over the country and internationally. ADVOCARTSY produces multiform art events, projects, and exhibitions, exclusively presenting works of Persian contemporary artists, to collectors, museums and community at large.