Lila Nazemian (she/her) is an independent curator and the Programs Director at ArteEast in New York. In 2022, she joined the Brooklyn-based Transmitter Gallery as a co-director where she has organized six exhibitions. Her research and curatorial practice are focused on reimagining approaches to histories from the Middle East/Southwest Asia North Africa (SWANA) and Central Asia regions in an effort to counter narrative revisionism and collective amnesia. Recent curatorial projects include: The Bride Has Gone To Pick Flowers, Cue Art, New York, (2025); Conjuring Flames, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, (2023); Now That We Have Established A Common Ground within Protocinema’s Emerging Curator Series, (2022); A Few In Many Places, New York, Protocinema, Governors Island New York, (2021); I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name, Center for Book Arts, New York (2020); On Echoes of Invisible Hearts: Image Making and Popular Archiving in Times of Unrest, Station Beirut, (2019); On Echoes of Invisible Hearts: Narratives of Yemeni Displacement, Poetry Project, Berlin (2018); and Spheres of Influence, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran (2016).
Nazemian teaches part-time at NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Art & Art Professions. She received a B.A. in History from Scripps College, California; and an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from N.Y.U., New York. In 2025, she was part of ACAF’s Field Meeting 7: Thinking Pilgramage. She was a QAYYEM 2019 Curatorial Fellow, was among the inaugural participants of the 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York and participated in ICI’s 2018 Curatorial Intensive in Bangkok.
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