Pantea Haghighi, Makiko Hara and Nya Lewis
The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the appointment of three new curators in residence: Pantea Haghighi, Makiko Hara and Nya Lewis.
The positions start immediately and will continue through 2025.
Haghighi, a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University, will continue her research on the development of modernism in Iran between 1948 and 1978. Haghighi recently guest curated Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
For more than 30 years, Hara has been an independent curator, producer, lecturer, performance artist and writer. She moved to Vancouver from Tokyo in 2007, and from 2007 to 2013 was the chief curator of Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. In 2021, she received the Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize from the Shadbolt Foundation.
Last but not least, “Lewis is currently the director of Artspeak gallery, *between June and October 2022 they served as the interim artistic director of the Vancouver Queer Film festival and they are also a research assistant at the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. In 2020, Lewis guest curated Where do we go from here?, an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery,” according to the news release.
* The original release incorrectly described Nya Lewis as "....currently...the interim artistic director of the Vancouver Queer Film festival..."
Source: Vancouver Art Gallery
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