Golnar Yarmohammad Touski is a doctoral student researching Iranian and Middle Eastern contemporary art at University of Pittsburgh’s department of History of Art and Architecture. As an artist, she studied painting and sculpture at University of Art (Daneshgah-e-Honar) in Tehran, Iran. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, modernism studies, uneven and combined development, relational aesthetics, mobility, borders, and geopolitics.
The War of Sovereign Identities: Surveying the International Cultural Landscape for Iranians Today
Using her father’s 1979 passport as a touchstone, US-based Iranian contemporary art scholar Golnar Yarmohammad Touski looks at the recent history of the country artist Siah Armajani left behind when he moved to Minnesota in 1960 and the cultural and political realities faced by Iranians working internationally in the arts today.