Tirdad Zolghadr

Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies

Biography: Freelance writer and curator, Berlin. Licence ès letters (M.A.), Comparative Literature, University of Geneva. Founding member, Shahrzad art and design collective. Director of the documentaries Tehran 1380 (with Solmaz Shahbazi), which won the Young Filmmaker's Award of Duisburg, 2002, and Tropical Modernism, which premiered at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, 2006. Exhibitions include curatorial projects in a wide range of venues. Co-curator, the Sharjah Biennial, 2005. Publications include Softcore, a novel, recently published by Telegram Books, London, and articles and reviews in Bidoun, Frieze, Parkett, among others. Editor-at-large, Cabinet magazine.

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Department: Center for Curatorial Studies