Aman Mojadidi
Education
2003 MA Honors, Cultural Anthropology: Conflict & Cultural Politics of Identity
1998 BA Honors, Cultural Anthropology: Post-colonialism, 3rd World Development
Select Exhibitions
2019 Outliers, The Franklin, Chicago, IL, USA (upcoming - September 2019)
2019 We Are Invisible Here (solo exhibition), Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (upcoming - August 2019)
2018 Remembering a Future (lecture-performance), Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11; Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom
2017 Once Upon a Place, Public installation in collaboration with Times Square Arts, Times Square, NYC, New York
2016 What They Fear (performative-installation), An Age of Our Own Making; Images Biennale, Roskilde/Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Untitled Garden #1 (installation), Dhaka Art Summit; National Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015 The Uprooted & The Gift Givers (performance), Field Meeting #3: Thinking Performance; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
2015 Adrift (site-specific installation), 12th Havana Biennale: Between the Idea & the Experience; Havana, Cuba
2015 The Brick (sculpture), Crisis of History v3 – Beyond History; Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Humanity House (installation), Crisis of History v2 – Fight History; Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 Commodified (installation), Asia Triennial Manchester; The Imperial War Museum-North, Manchester, UK
2014 A Day in the Life of a Jihadi Gangster, Crisis of History v1 – Welcome to the End of History; Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 Love Letters From Home (installation), Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan 1979-2014; The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Art Gallery, Ewing, New Jersey
2014 Love Letters From Home (installation), Dear Diary: Update All; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2013 A Garden Lay in Ruin Upon the Earth While Birds & Planes Battle for the Sky (video), UTOPIA - Babylon, Baby! (group); Galerie Utopia at art berlin contemporary (abc), Berlin and PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
2012 What Histories Lay Beneath Our Feet? (installation), Ft. Kochi/Muziris Biennale, Ft. Kochi, Kerala, India
2012 A Garden Lay in Ruin Upon the Earth While Birds & Planes Battle for the Sky (video), The Garden of Eden: Lost & Found (group); Galerie Utopia, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 Resolution (installation), dOCUMENTA (13); Bunker im Weinberg, Kassel, Germany & Queen's Palace-Babur Gardens, Kabul, Afghanistan
2011 Ba’Aman-e-Khuda Watan/Goodbye Homeland (solo); Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France
2011 Love Letters From Home (installation), The State: Social/Antisocial? (group); Traffic Gallery, Dubai
2011 Static (audio), MENASA Studio Dispatches (group); The Island, ArtEast, and Art Dubai Special Projects; Art Dubai 2011, Dubai, UAE
Select Experience & Related Activity
2018-Current Arts Grants & Culture Specialist, Silk Road Cultural Initiative, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Kabul, Afghanistan
2015-16 Curator, Imago Mundi-Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, & Pakistan, The Luciano Benetton Collection / Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
2014 Artist-in-Residence, la Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2013 Curator, Imago Mundi-Afghanistan, The Luciano Benetton Collection / Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Traffic - Museum Without Walls, Dubai, UAE
2012 KHOJ Artist-in-Residence, Dharamsala, India
2012 Co-Curator, dOCUMENTA (13), Afghanistan Seminars & Exhibition
2011-2010 Independent Professional, Goethe Institute-Kabul, Contemporary Art & Culture Survey (North)
2010 Coordinator, “Wallords: Street Art Workshop 2010” providing a 1-week workshop to young Afghan artists led by visiting international street artist CHU
2010 Consultant, United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Afghanistan; Draft “Policy Framework for the Rehabilitation of Cultural & Creative Industries in Afghanistan”
2010 Lecturer, “Culture & Globalization” summer course, American University, Kabul, Afghanistan; supported by the Goethe Institute-Kabul
2010 Lecturer, “Artistic Practice of a Southern Fried Afghan,” International Intervention & Contemporary Culture in Afghanistan Course, Sciences Po, Paris, France
2010-2009 Director of Culture & Heritage, Turquoise Mountain; Kabul, Afghanistan
Select Publications
The Exhibition; Contemporary Art & Visual Culture in Global Asia. IB Taurus, anticipated in early 2019
The Art of Conflict Chic: Imagined Geographies & the Search for a Post-Orientalist Identity; Conflict & Compassion: A Paradox of Difference in Contemporary Asian Art. HOME Publishers, 2016
Home and What Can One Say About Living in Kabul?; Edited Volume: One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan-American Literature. University of Arkansas Press, 2010
Humanitarians with Guns: Globalized Rights, Cultural Space, & Militarized Aid in Afghanistan; Edited Volume: Challenges and Paths to Global Justice. Palgrave McMillian. 2007
Awards/Fellowships
2014 Visiting Fellow, Participating in Politics: Art, Anthropology, and Advocacy in Afghanistan – Bennington College; Bennington, Vermont
2012 TED Global Fellow
2010 Highly Commended, Freedom to Create Prize 2010; Singapore
2010 Maker’s Muse Award, The Kindle Project; America
Select Press
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/arts/design/times-square-phone-booths-art-installation.html
http://www.sfcamerawork.org/journal
http://arts.gov/art-works/2013/art-talk-aman-mojadidi
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/arts/the-deconstructor-of-afghanistan