New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has appointed artwork historian and curator Duygu Demir to the submit of Curator of the college’s Art Gallery, and Research Assistant Professor of Art History. Originally from Turkey, Demir is a founding member of SALT, a research-based cultural establishment in Istanbul. Before becoming a member of NYUAD, Demir was Assistant Art History Professor at Sabancı University.
As the NYUAD Art Gallery enters its 10th yr of exhibitions and publications, Demir’s appointment is meant to advance the gallery’s dedication to utilizing exhibition-making as a mode of investigation, supporting experimentation in type and idea, and charting new areas of artwork historical past.
In conserving with the NYUAD Art Gallery’s mission as a educating establishment and a core catalyst for NYU Abu Dhabi as a locus of mental and inventive exercise, Demir will even assist the college’s Arts and Humanities division as a Research Assistant Professor. Her educational analysis subjects embrace non-Western modernisms, exhibition histories, transnational inventive encounters, and moments of confluence between artwork and structure. Her educational writing has appeared in MIT Press’s Art Margins (2014) and Thresholds (2018), in addition to Art Journal (2019).
Demir’s most up-to-date curatorial venture is a survey of artwork from Turkey made in the final decade, at the moment on view at İMALAT-HANE in Bursa. Last yr, she labored on solo shows of labor by Deniz Aktaş and Gözde İlkin, each for artSümer in Istanbul (2022). While at SALT, she co-curated a number of critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions and accompanying public packages, and edited two monographic publications: one on conceptualist İsmail Saray (2018) and one other for Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (2011). In addition to quite a few exhibition catalogue contributions, she was considered one of the authors of Art Cities of the Future: Avant-Gardes of the 21st Century (Phaidon, 2013), a nominator and contributor for Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013), in addition to the editor of Room of Rhythms–Cevdet Erek (Walther König, 2012).
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