Aram Moshayedi (cancelled)

Function: Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles Country: United States Visiting period: 22 April - 25 February Visiting year: 2018

At the museum he recently organized the exhibition Stories of Almost Everyone. In 2016, he co-curated (with Hamza Walker) Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only. Since joining the museum in 2013, he has organized projects by artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Andrea Büttner, Andrea Bowers, Simon Denny, Avery Singer, Maria Hassabi, and Mario Garcia Torres, as well as All the Instruments Agree: An Exhibition or a Concert, a two-day program of live music and sound performed by visual artists.

He was formerly associate curator at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), where he organized exhibitions and oversaw the production of new works by The Otolith Group, Slavs and Tatars, Jordan Wolfson, Tony Cokes, Ming Wong, Erlea Maneros Zabala, and Geoffrey Farmer. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues as well as such publications as ArtforumArt in AmericaFriezeMetropolis MParkett, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and Bidoun, for which he is a contributing editor.

His visit is organised in collaboration with the Flanders Arts Institute, Belgium