Biography
Sadia Shirazi is a writer, art historian, architect, and independent curator whose research focuses on transregional histories of modernism and contemporary art across South Asia, the Middle East and their diasporas with a particular interest in questions of race, gender, postcoloniality and decolonisation.
Shirazi has curated exhibitions internationally including Soft and Wet, Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts, Project Space, New York (2019); welcome to what we took from is the state, the Queens Museum, New York (2016); 230 MB/Exhibition Without Objects, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi (2013); and Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility, The Kitchen, New York (2011). Her work has been shown at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Performance Space New York and the Devi Art Foundation, Gurugram, India.
She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters in edited volumes. Shirazi’s reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, MoMA post, C Magazine, The Funambulist, and Jadaliyya and ArteEast, among others. She has articles forthcoming in the journals Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art and Journal for Curatorial Studies.
Shirazi is Instructor for Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and has taught at The Cooper Union, Cornell University, The New School, and National College of the Arts, Lahore, Pakistan.
Shirazi holds a BA in History from the University of Chicago and a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently completing her PHD in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, US.
Born in Chicago, Shirazi currently lives and works in New York.
SAF participation:
March Meeting 2021