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Kathy Zarur is a curator and educator based in San Francisco. She has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Center for Asian American Media Film Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Kearny Street Workshop, SOMArts, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, and Museum of the African Diaspora (all in San Francisco). In 2011, she was assistant curator of the Sharjah Biennial. She co-produced artist Wael Shawky’s live installation Dictums 10:120 for the subsequent Sharjah Biennial in 2013. She has worked with Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem and was a researcher for a cultural center project in Ghana. Her upcoming exhibit, Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes, will open at Minnesota Street Project in August 2019.
Zarur has also organized numerous conferences. She is artistic director for an upcoming symposium about Chinese brush painter Chang Dai-chien, to be hosted by the Asian Art Museum in 2020. In 2017, she was artistic director of “Teaching Art of the Middle East and Islamic World,” hosted by the de Young Museum and San Francisco State University, and co-organized “Zones of Representation,” a symposium and exhibition hosted by SF Camerawork. Zarur has published articles for Art in America and Broadsheet, and she has written numerous essays to accompany exhibitions and conferences. Her exhibitions have been reviewed by KQED and SF Weekly, and she has been featured in the SF Examiner. Zarur earned her PhD in art history from the University of Michigan, where she also obtained a certificate in Museum Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary art and the museum industry in the Middle East. She teaches art history at the California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University. |
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