Abu Dhabi: New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has appointed Ms. Duygu Demir to the post of university’s Art Gallery’s curator and Research Assistant Professor of Art History.
The move comes as the NYUAD Art Gallery marks its tenth year of exhibitions and publications. Ms. Demir’s appointment reaffirms the Gallery’s commitment to exhibition-making as a mode of investigation, supporting experimentation in form and concept, and charting new areas of art history.
Ms. Demir is an art historian and curator. Originally from Turkey, Ms. Demir was a founding member of SALT, a research-based cultural institution in Istanbul, and earned her PhD from MIT, with funding from both MIT and Harvard University. Before joining NYUAD, Ms. Demir was an Assistant Professor of Art History at Sabancı University.
“What does it mean to be growing a primary cultural sector rooted in this region? Our university’s role in exploring that question has crystallized: in our Art Gallery, our more free-form Project Space, and our Reading Room, NYU Abu Dhabi supports creative experimentation and the development of new bodies of knowledge,” Ms. Allison added.
According to the report, NYUAD is looking forward to effectively utilizing Ms. Demir’s rare combination of scholarly training in non-Western modernism and her commitment to cultural production through exhibitions and programs.