Aphrodite Désirée Navab is an Iranian Greek American artist and writer (b. 1971, Iran), who uses visual art and writing to investigate transnational issues in art, education, cultural and women’s studies. In 2004 she completed an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Navab is currently teaching graduate students in the MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) program at The School of Visual Arts. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor of Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of Florida. She received her BA magna cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1993.

Navab’s art has been featured in over eighty exhibitions/film screenings around the world and is included in a number of permanent collections. She had a solo exhibition: Super East-West Woman: Living On the Axis Fighting Evil Everywhere (Oct-Nov 2007), at the Rhonda Schaller studio in Chelsea, NYC. It will travel from 2008-2010 in the multimedia exhibition, Visible and Invisible Spaces, with Jennifer Heath curator and editor, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, 2007). From June 27-October 2009, Navab will be included in the exhibition, Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection, at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Curated by Lowe Associate Director, Denise M. Gerson, the exhibition features only 100 significant photographs from more than 1000 photographic holdings: from Julia Margaret Cameron and Walker Evans to Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson.

Navab has published several scholarly journal articles dealing with the history and criticism of art in Exposure, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Iranian Studies, Sage Encyclopedia of Identity and Encyclopedia Iranica. Her poetry, “Tales Left Untold,” is published in the anthology entitled: Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora (2006), edited by Persis Karim, Parisa Milani, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. Navab’s personal essay, “What is Home After Exile? An Iranian Greek American Homecoming,” is published in Homelands; Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place and Time (2007), edited by Jenesha de Rivera, Patricia Justine Tumang, Seal Press. Her prose revisit of “Tales Left Untold” is published in POWWOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience, Short Fiction from Then to Now, edited by Ishmael Reed & Carla Blank. Da Capo Press, Perseus Books (2009).