Join us for a Visiting Artist talk with Taraneh Fazeli as a part of the Summer 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Taraneh Fazeli is an Iranian-American curator. Her cultural contributions are rooted at the intersection of the disability, diasporic, queer, organizing, creative, and communities of color she calls home. For the first half of her career, she worked at NYC-based arts institutions such as Artforum, e-flux, Triple Canopy, and The New Museum as a curator, editor, educator, and director, before becoming an independent curator in 2016. She received an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship towards the forthcoming field guide/book rooted in her peripatetic exhibition “Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying (2016-20),” which addressed the intersection of health, disability, imperialism, colonialism, race, care, and repair. She’s taught at the City College of New York and The College of Creativity Studies Detroit; has cofounded study gatherings from the institutional New Museum Seminars to the community-centered Relentless Bodies Disability Justice Study group; and has written for anthologies and art publications including Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Flash Art. In addition to an ongoing focus on art that works with debility, time, accessibility, infrastructure, and care amidst the (im)possibility of repair, her recent research focuses on alliances that might be forged through differently-configured exclusions from the conception of the human.