Duygu Demir

Duygu Demir is an art historian and curator with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on articulations of modern painting from the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. Before her graduate studies, she worked as a programmer at SALT in Istanbul. In addition to SALT (Ankara and Istanbul), she curated exhibitions at MIT's Keller Gallery (Cambridge, MA), Arter (Istanbul) and Tate Modern (London). In addition to her academic research, she writes articles and reviews on contemporary art for magazines and online platforms in Turkey and abroad. Demir's research topics include exhibition histories, transnational encounters, and moments of confluence between art and architecture, in addition to contemporary artistic practice, especially of the non-western kind. Demir recently joined the NYU Abu Dhabi community as the curator of its Art Gallery and Research Assistant Professor in Art History. She has a combined BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Columbia University in New York.