Tirdad Zolghadr

Zolghadr is a writer and curator and teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College NY. He recently curated the Taipei Biennial 2010 with Hongjohn Lin. Other curatorial work includes the UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale 09, the long-term traveling project Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, with Nav Haq, and the Sharjah Biennial 2005 with Jack Persekian & Ken Lum. As a writer, Zolghadr is a frequent contributor to frieze magazine. Most recently he was author of “Solution 168-185” and editor of “Necessities” (both Sternberg Press, 2010). His novel Softcore was published 2007 (Telegram Books, now translated into German, Italian, French), and the working title of his second novel is Top Ten. Zolghadr is also curatorial advisor to the Artist Pension Trust and editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. 

Production Studio I Fall 2007

photo by chelo