Sandra Skurvida is independent curator and scholar based in New York City. Her research interests include multidisciplinary performance of the 20th and 21st centuries and digital media art and theory, with a dissertation on Carolee Schneemann and subsequent scholarship focused on John Cage. Currently, her curatorial practice is devoted to transnational exchanges in post-colonial conditions. She directs OtherIS curatorial initiative (www.otheris.com); and served as guest-editor for ArteEast journal’s Spring 2012 issue on censorship in Iran. Among her other numerous curated exhibitions are Avant-Guide to NYC (apexart, 2009); Custom Car Commandos (Art in General, 2009); Soap Box Event by Pia Lindman (Federal Hall National Memorial, 2008); and the Third Annual Exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania (1995). Skurvida is currently teaching at FIT-SUNY; she has lectured at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Parsons The New School University; School of Visual Arts; and Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. She holds a PhD in Art History and Criticism from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Art/Art History

Middle East/Near East Studies

All Middle East

Former Soviet Union

Contemporary Art, Curating, Information Technology

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