Tirdad Zolghadr applies an international perspective to his curatorial practice, including a number of major long-term, traveling exhibitions, his writing and his role as a professor at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies.

Tirdad Zolghadr

Tirdad Zolghadr is an independent writer and curator, and teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. He recently curated the 2010 Taipei Biennial with Hongjohn Lin. Other curatorial work includes the UAE pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, the long-term traveling project Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie with Nav Haq, and the 2005 Sharjah Biennial with Jack Persekian and Ken Lum. As a writer, Zolghadr is a frequent contributor to Frieze magazine. He is the author of Solution 168-185 and the editor of Necessities (both from Sternberg Press, 2010). His first novel, Softcore, was published in 2007 (from Telegram Books), and has been translated into German, Italian, and French.

Born 1973 in Iran.
Lives and works in Berlin and New York.