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Aram Moshayedi is a writer and the current curator-in-residence at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. From 2013 to 2023, he was the Robert Soros Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where he remains an adjunct curator. Recent exhibitions and publications at the Hammer include Lifes; Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019 (with Connie Butler); Stories of Almost Everyone; Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only (with Hamza Walker); and All the Instruments Agree: An Exhibition or a Concert, as well as projects by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Marwa Arsanios, Andrea Bowers, Andrea Büttner, Tita Cicognani, Simon Denny, Janiva Ellis, Mario García Torres, Shadi Habib Allah, Maria Hassabi, Jasmina Metwaly, Ho Tzu Nyen, Oliver Payne and Keiichi Tanaami, and Avery Singer. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues as well as Artforum, Art in America, BOMB Magazine, Frieze, Metropolis M, Parkett, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and Bidoun, for which he is a contributing editor.
$9 million in new grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supports artists and public events that connect art with healing, explore cultural identity, and tell diverse and unique Philadelphia stories.
$9.5 million in new grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supports resonant cultural experiences that enliven and enrich our region and represent multiple perspectives, personal stories, and historical narratives.