Fereshteh Daftari Author

Curator and scholar Fereshteh Daftari received her PhD in Art History from Columbia University (1988). During her tenure at the Museum of Modern Art (1988 - 2009), she curated a number of exhibitions including Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking (2006), the first treatment of diasporic artists from the Islamic world by a major institution. Her curatorial work in the field of Iranian modernism includes Between Word and Image at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery in 2002, and Iran Modern at the Asia Society Museum in New York in 2013. Additionally, with several exhibitions, she focused on contemporary art: Action Now, the first exhibition of contemporary Iranian performance art held at the Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris (2012); Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver (2013); and Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the Museum of fine Arts in Houston (2017) and soon at Asia Society, New York (2020).