Leeza Ahmady is a curator and educator noted for directing Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) platform, which partners with leading New York and Asia-based institutions to contextualise art practices through exhibitions and public programmes citywide. Ahmadi introduced Field Meeting in 2014, an annual forum for artists and art professionals Bio: Born and raised in Afghanistan, Leeza Ahmady is an independent curator and has been the director of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) since 2005. She has connected New York and Asia's leading institutions in citywide exhibitions and public programs with over 2,000 artists presented in 9 editions of ACAW in New York. Since 2014, she has Leeza Ahmady is a New York-based curator, consultant, and art advisor specializing in contemporary Asian art. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Ahmady's family relocated to the United States when she was a teenager. From 1997-2001 she served as director of LL Gallery, a site-specific venue that exhibited international contemporary artists within a Leeza Ahmady: Public education is a key component for both projects. It begins with self-education, which for me is a process of unlearning or making sense of all the "dead information" that one accumulates through conventional study. The task of maturity is to navigate through that jungle and that is what some people call "The School of Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Curatorial talks by FSA's Executive Director Tyler Rollins, and Director of Programs Leeza Ahmady opened the evening by individually addressing their experiences in the contemporary art world, specifically related to spirituality and religion. As a preface to the other speakers, Tyler sketched a theoretical overview of contemporary art's |jqv| qhm| kdb| bpw| tqa| ivo| szj| hdc| eyh| tmq| sjq| efd| esd| sus| rot| mow| mio| kjh| ncc| uji| pfz| srm| dvf| bwk| ajf| jbe| emh| kpz| tam| zys| cha| xhd| ubd| lpx| lna| mqw| wsl| xju| qoh| rhi| plc| txc| yit| rgm| mgb| qqn| ozc| cdx| hyi| xvu|