Fereshteh Daftari
Author, Art Curator, and Scholar
Farhang Foundation proudly presented a Farhang Connect event with
Fereshteh Daftari
Renowned Author, Art Curator, and Scholar
for an in-depth conversation about her newly published book
PERSIA REFRAMED: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The talk was hosted by Roshi Rahnama, founder of ADVOCARTSY and founding member of Farhang Foundation's Fine Arts Council.
Fereshteh Daftari
Author, Curator, Scholar
Curator and scholar Fereshteh Daftari received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University (1988). Her dissertation, The Influence of Persian Art on Gauguin, Matisse and Kandinsky, was published in 1991. During her tenure at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1988 - 2009), she curated a number of international exhibitions including Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking (2006). 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. She has also focused on contemporary art. Action Now, the first exhibition of contemporary Iranian performance art, was held 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 (2017). It then traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and in 2021 it will go to the Asia Society Museum in New York. Daftari has published widely and her most recent book is titled Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art (London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019).
Roshi Rahnama
Founder ADVOCARTSY
In January 2015, Roshi Rahnama founded ADVOCARTSY, a collaborative fine arts platform that addresses and engages with Iranian Contemporary Arts both nationally and internationally. ADVOCARTSY produces diverse art events, projects, and exhibitions, exclusively presenting works of Iranian contemporary artists, to collectors, museums and community at large.
