Aphrodite Désirée Navab

       
       
   

Education

5/2004

Ed.D. in Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Dissertation title:
“Unsaying Life Stories: A Comparative Analysis of the Autobiographical Art of Four Iranians.”
Doctoral Sponsor, Dr. Graeme Sullivan.

10/2000

Ed.M. in Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

5/2000

M.A. in Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
• New York State Teacher Certification.

6/1993

A. B. Magna cum Laude in Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.
• Studied with photographers Chris Killip, David Goldblatt, Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Bill Burke, Barbara Norfleet.

Employment

2008-2009

Faculty, School of Visual Arts. NY, NY.

2004-2006

Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida.
• Photography
• Area Coordinator of Photography.
• Advisor and critic in MFA Graduate Photographic and Electronic Intermedia Seminar.
• Graduate Faculty Supervisor of Graduate Students in their teaching.
• Chair of 2 MFA thesis committees
• Member of 3 MFA thesis committees
• Advisor to 10 MFA Independent Studies
• Advisor to 7 BFA High/Highest Honors Senior Thesis Projects

2002-2004

2002.2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida.

2000-2002

Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida.

1999-2000

Artist-in-Residence, The Crossroads School, Public Middle School, NYC.

1997-1998

1997.1998 Adjunct Instructor of Photography, Dept. of Visual Arts, Gettysburg College, PA.

Courses Taught

Beginning through Advanced Photography: still black and white, color, small through large format, Visual Literacy, Interdisciplinary Studio: Art and World Feminisms, Art Education for Elementary School Teachers, Fundamentals of Art, Graduate Seminar: Photography and Electronic Intermedia. Graduate course for methods and materials in elementary art education.

Refereed Publications

• “Re-picturing Photography: A Language in the Making,” in Photographic Theory: An Historical Anthology (2014), edited by Andrew Hershberger, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140519846X.html

• “Stones in a New Garden,” in Love and Pomegranate: Artists and Wayfarers on Iran, edited by Meghan Sayres, Nortia Press (2013). http://loveandpomegranates.meghansayres.com/
http://www.nortiapress.com/portfolio-item/love-pomegranates-edited-meghan-nuttall-sayres/

De-Orientalizing Iran: The Art of Sevruguin, Neshat, Navab, and Ghazel. Lampert Academic Publishing (2011). http://www.amazon.com/De-Orientalizing-Iran

• “Kashk-e-Bademjan,” in Primal Picnics: Writers Invent Creation Myths for their Favorite Foods, edited Jennifer Heath, WholeWorld Press (2010).

• “Photographic Truth,” in Sage Encyclopedia of Identity, CA: Sage Publications (2010).

• “Tales Left Untold,” 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. (Jan. 2009).

• “Tenuous Transport,” in Luis Camnitzer’s collaboration, Last Book (2007-ongoing).

• “What is Home After Exile? An Iranian Greek American Homecoming,” in Homelands; Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place and Time. (Jan. 2007), edited by Jenesha de Rivera, Patricia Justine Tumang, Seal Press. http://www.homelandsanthology.com

• “Unsaying Life Stories: The Autobiographical Art of Shirin Neshat and Ghazel,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 41/2 (2007).

• “Tales Left Untold” (original poetry), in 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.

• “Antoin Sevruguin,” in Ehsan Yarshater, Ed., Encyclopedia Iranica. (New York: Bibliotheca Persica, 1982- ).

• “Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture (review essay)," The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 37/2 (2003): 114-121.

• “Photography and Collecting: From Private to Public,” Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education 35/1 (2003): 61-70.

• “To Be or not To Be an Orientalist?: The Ambivalent Art of Antoin Sevruguin,” Iranian Studies 35/1-2 (2002): 113-144.

• “To Tell a Tale,” a review of Ahmad K. Jabbari, ed., Amoo Norooz and Other Persian Stories, in Iranian Studies 35/1-2 (2002).

• Re-picturing Photography: A Language in the Making,” Journal of Aesthetic Education 35/1 (2001): 69-84.

Solo Exhibitions/Performances

2013

“I Am Not a Miniature.” SOHO20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2013

“Friend/Doost/Philos.” Performance art sponsored by The Feminist Art Project in conjunction with
SOHO20 Chelsea. SOHO20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2012

“The Homeling.” Performance art and photography exhibition commissioned by Shahrzad gallery.
Shahrzad Gallery, NY, NY

2012

“The Metamorph.” Performance art commissioned by Persian Arts Festival, Citilore, Bowery Arts &
Science. VII Photo Agency, NY, NY.

2011

“Super East-West Woman: Forty Pillars,” Soho20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2011

“The Undoing” Solo performance-based art act in the performance series curated by Anne Apparu: The Hostess Never Lies, Vogt gallery, New York, NY.

2011

“Super East-West Woman’s Sufi Dance: Egypt,” Skylight gallery, NY, NY

2010

“Super East-West Woman’s Sufi Dance,” performance-based art act, Zora Space, NY. NY.

2010

“She Speaks Greek Farsi,” Soho20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2010

“HermAphrodite” Solo performance-based art act, Zora Space, NY. NY.

2009

“Call Me Anar” Solo performance-based art act, Soho20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2009

“She Speaks Greek Farsi,” ICC Athens, Greece.

2008

Washington Square Review. New York University. NY, NY.

2007

“Super East-West Woman: Living on the Axis, Fighting Evil Everywhere,” Rhonda Schaller Studio, NY, NY.

2005

“Tales Worth Retelling,”Charles Culpeper Photography Gallery, New York, NY.

2005

“Re-Collecting Iran,” Brown gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC.

2004

“Super East-West Woman,” Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

2004-2005

“Re-Collecting Iran,” Grinter Gallery of International Art, Gainesville, FL, Amy Vigilante curator.

2004

“I Am Not A Persian Carpet.” Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Harris Fogel curator.

2003

“Navab: Selected Works.” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL. Bernice Steinbaum, curator.

2002

“Tales Worth Retelling.” Macy Gallery, New York, NY. Kendal Kennedy, curator.

2002

2002 “What Is Home After Exile? An Iranian-American Homecoming. Exhibition in conjunction with the 17th Annual International History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2000

“Tales Left Untold.” Macy Gallery, New York, NY.

2000

“In Chase of Shadows.” Janati Gallery, Greenwich, CT.

1998

“Portraits of Uzbekistan.” The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY.

1997

“Village Women of Pakistan.” Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.

International Invitational Exhibitions/Performances

2014

“The Blind Owl Meets the Hunger Artist” in the invitational group exhibition Are We Already Gone? curated by Negin Sharifzadeh, Flicker Lab, Soho, NY.

2011

“The Undoing” in the performance series curated by Anne Apparu: The Hostess Never Lies, Vogt gallery New York, NY.

2011

Acted in Aaron Schimberg’s film: “Go Down Death”.

2011

“Sabzi and Me,” Zora Space, NY, NY.

2010

HermAphrodite (2010), DCTV Firehouse, Soho, NY.

2009

Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of
Miami. Denise M. Gerson, curator.

2008

Highlights from the Photography Collection: University of Florida’s Photographic Legacy. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida.

2008-2013

The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, Jennifer Heath curator, editor, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, 2008).
Traveling Multimedia Exhibition.

2008

Change/Cambio at G.A.S.P. (Gallery, Artists, Studio, Projects) gallery, Boston, MA.

2008

Zam Zam Arts; Figurine. Exploring the Muslim Woman’s Experience. Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC.

2008

Picturing Mary. Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL.

2008

Making Home. Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

2007-ongoing

“Tenuous Transport,” in Luis Camnitzer’s collaboration, Last Book.

2007

Trauma Queen. Mediterranean Hotel, Athens, Greece.

2007

Emergence. Hadieh Shafie, curator. Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

2007

Access: A Feminist Perspective. Rhonda Schaller Gallery. New York, NY.

2006

Self-Portraits: A Show For Peace. Traveling Exhibition. Offizyna Art Space & Swinoujscie Art
Museum Szczecin, Poland. Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy. MAC - Museo Arte
Contemporaneo
, Santa Fe, Argentina. MACRO - Museo Arte Contemporaneo Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. http://self.engad.org

2005

Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2002

University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

2002

New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA.

2001

New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA.

2000

Disney Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, FL.

2000

Campus Center Gallery, Hilo, HI.

2000

Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT.

1999-2000

Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY.

1999

Adelphi-Soho Center, New York, NY.

1998

Agora Gallery, New York, NY.

International Group Exhibitions

2011

Affordable Art Fair, NY, NY.

2010

Between the Lines, Soho20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2010

Dialogue Beyond Reality, curated by Nahid Hagigat, Zoraspace, NY, NY.

2008

It’s Not Easy. Exit Underground. Exit Art, New York, NY.

2007

James Cohan Gallery, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY.

2006

Art Is Me; Art Is You, Public Art Project. Walking Exhibition. New York, NY.

2006

Cultural Lenses, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA.

2005

College of Fine Arts 40th annual art faculty exhibition, Harn Museum of Art, FL.

2004

Art Basel, College of Fine Arts 39th annual art faculty exhibition, Miami, FL.

2003

College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, 38th annual art faculty exhibition, Gainesville, FL.

2002

The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA.

2001

The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY.

2001

College of Fine Arts, University of Florida 36th annual art faculty exhibition, FL.

2000

Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX.

1998-2000

Macy Gallery, New York, NY.

1999-2000

University Art Gallery, Jonesboro, AR.

1998

City Island Arts Organization, Bronx, NY.

1998

Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA.

1998

Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT.

1998

Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, MO.

1998

Springfield Art Association, Springfield, MA.

1998

Barret House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.

1998

Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD.

1998

Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT.

1998, 2000

Lafayette Art Association, LA.

1998

Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA.

1998

Art Forms Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

1998

Lafayette Art Association, Lafayette, LA.

1997-98

Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY.

1997

Cincinnati Art Club, Cincinnati, OH.

1997

Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH

1997

York Art Association, York, PA.

Invited Lectures

2010

Shahrzad’s Sisters: Storytelling as a Strategy for Survival. Huntington Arts Council, NY.

2010

From Mecca to Manhattan: Shahrzad’s Sisters.

2010

Muslim American Woman’s Voices with Robina Niaz, Soho20 Chelsea, NY, NY.

2010

“Visual Self-Narration” University of Florida, College of Fine Arts, Gainesville, FL.

2005

“The Autobiographical Art of Shirin Neshat, Ghazel and Navab.” New York University, Steinhardt School of Education.

2005

Super East-West Woman” Harn Museum of Art, FL.

2004

“Between the Lines of Self and Other.” Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts, Richmond, VA.

2004

“Iranian Diasporic Art.” The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA.

2004

“Photographic Autobiographies: Three Artists from Iran.” Ohio University College of Fine Arts. Athens, OH.

2004

“Unsaying Life Stories.” Palmer Museum of Art, State College, PA.

2003

Navab Retrospective. Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL.

2003

“Re-Picturing Photography: A Critique of the Violent Terminology Framing the Culture of Still Photography.” In conjunction with the Culture of Violence exhibition, The Harn Museum of Fine Arts, Gainesville, FL.

2003

I Am Not A Persian Miniature: The Art of Hybrid Iranian Women,” in the international symposium held at the University of Florida--Beyond/After the Screen: The Impact of Documenta X and XI on Contemporary Film and Video Practice, Gainesville, FL.

2002

“Re-picturing Self and History: Photographic Inquiry.” Re-Searching the Art of Inquiry. Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY.

2002

“Tales Worth Retelling.” Bicultural Ways of Knowing: Iranian American Narratives. Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY

2002

“Photography and Autobiography.” The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

2002

“Iran, Islam and Women.” American Association of University Women. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

1999

“Tales Left Untold.” The Rose and the Nightingale: Persian Civilization, Art and Philosophy. Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY

1998

Portraits of Uzbekistan.” The Indo-Mongolian Society. New York University, NY,
NY

Media Interviews

2010-present

See AGAPW in the press: http://agapw.org/site/press

2009

Television interview regarding She Speaks Greek Farsi exhibition in Athens, Greece.

2009

Good Morning Athens. Radio interview regarding She Speaks Greek Farsi exhibition in Athens, Greece.

2005

Interview regarding Super East-West Woman series aired on CKUT public radio (Nov. 2, 6-7 pm) Montréal, Canada.

Readings

2010

FIT: Fashion Institute of Technology

2010

Columbia University

2010

New Day: Iranian and Afghan American Voices, Fashion Institute of Technology, (FIT), NY, NY.

2010

New Day: Iranian and Afghan American Voices Association of Iranian American Writers, & Association
of Asian American Writers Workshop (AAWW). Readings at AAWW, NY, NY.

2010

Poetry reading, Assoication of Greek American Professional Women (AGAPW), NY, NY.

2010

Poetry reading at Bowery Poetry Club, NY.

2010

Poetry reading, AGAPW, NY, NY.

2008

Iranian American Writers: The Next Generation. Khakpour, Navab, Nasrabadi, & Sedarat.
Co-Sponsored by Arte East, Association of Iranian American Writers, & Association
of Asian American Writers Workshop (AAWW). Readings at AAWW, NYC.

2008

“Tales Left Untold,” Persian Arts Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC.

2007

“Tales Left Untold,” in 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. New York University.

2006

“What is Home After Exile? An Iranian Greek American Homecoming,” In Homelands; Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place and Time. (Jan. 2007), edited by Jenesha de Rivera, Patricia Justine Tumang, Seal Press. At the interdisciplinary conference called "Envisioning Home," sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of CUNY, NYC.

2006

“Tales Left Untold,” in 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. Sponsored by Arte East. Labyrinth Books, NYC.

Refereed Conference Paper Presentations

2005

“The Transnational Art of Neshat, Ghazel and Navab,” Muslims' Experiences of Globalization conference Atlanta, GA. Sponsored by the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development at Georgia State University and the Georgia Middle East Studies Consortium.

2005

“Discursive Autobiographies: The Telling-Self,” College Art Association annual conference, Atlanta, GA, 16-19 February.

2004

“Reclamer la Voix Autobiographique: L’Art de Trois Photographes Iraniennes,” L’Islam et L’Occident: Le Mythe de L’Autre, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 16-18 November.

2004

“Unsaying Life Stories: The Autobiographical Art of Four Iranians,” National Art Education Association annual conference, Denver, CO.

2003

“I Am Not A Persian: Iranian Women Artists,” Society for Photographic Education annual conference, Austin, TX.

2003

“I Am Not A Persian Miniature: The Art of Iranian Women in Exile,” College Art Association annual conference, New York, NY.

2002

“To Be Or Not To Be An Orientalist?: The Ambivalent Art of Antoin Sevruguin,” National Art Education Association annual conference, Miami Beach, FL.

2002

“Longing to Belong: The photography of Antoin Sevruguin,” 4th Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Bethesda, MD.

2001

“Photography: A Language in the Making,” National Art Education Association annual conference, New
York, NY.

Awards

2005

Empire Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women Educators.

2004

Who’s Who: America’s Best Teachers.

2003-2004

Academic year Merit Scholarship, Teachers College, Columbia University.

2002-2003

Academic year Merit Scholarship, Teachers College, Columbia University.

1999-2000

1999.2000 Academic year Merit Scholarship, Teachers College, Columbia University.

1999

Purchase Award, College of Fine Arts, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR.

1999

Summer term Merit Scholarship, Teachers College, Columbia University.

1998

Juror’s Merit Award, Self-Portrait juried exhibition, Macy Gallery, New York.

1998

Juror’s Merit Award, City Island Arts Organization national juried exhibition.

1998

Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts International 7th annual competition.

1997

First Prize, photography category, York (PA) Art Association 27th annual national juried competition.

1993

David McCord Prize for Outstanding Visual Artist, Harvard University.

Service

2013

Chair and moderator of panel of artists in the exhibition: Women Redrawing the World Stage, including artists: Mona Hatoum, Chitra Ganesh, Milcah Bassel, Dahlia Elsayed, Farah Ossouli, Armita Raafat, Samira Abbassy, Zeina Barakeh, Nezaket Ekici
http://soho20gallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Press-Release-WRWS.pdf

2010-present

Committee of Twenty: Network 20/20.
http://network2020.org/committee-of-twenty/

2010-present

Vice President: AGAPW, Association of Greek American Professional Women.
http://agapw.org/site/about

2009-present

Board of Directors: AGAPW, Association of Greek American Professional Women.

2013

Vice Chair of the Harvard College 20th year Alumni Reunion

2005-2009

Editorial review board, Journal of Visual Culture and Gender.

2009-2013

Interviewer for Harvard College undergraduate admissions.

2008

Alumni Gift Committee for The Dalton School 20th year Reunion.

2007

Vice Chair of the Harvard College 15th year Alumni Reunion.

2008-2010

Co-chair Diversity Committee, Middle School, The Dalton School

2007-2010

Diversity Task Force, The Dalton School.

2007-2010

Minority Mentor, High School, The Dalton School.

2007, 2008

Panelist, Graduate Research in Art Education Conference, Penn State & Teachers College.

2004

School of Art and Art History Digital Media Task Force.

2004

College of Fine Arts Committee for the Revision of UF’s 2002 Strategic Plan.

2004-2005

University Galleries Advisory Committee.

2003-2004

Area Coordinator: Photography, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida.

2000-present

Graduate Faculty Supervisor of graduate students in their teaching.

2003

“Critically Analyzing Photographs.” Talk for docents. March 3. Harn Museum of Art.

2002-present

Faculty advisor, University of Florida Undergraduate Photographic Society.

2001.2002

Minority mentor, University of Florida.

Published Photographs

• Cover Photograph. Love and Pomegranate: New Voices Celebrating Iran, edited by Meghan Sayres (2013).
• Feature article by Haimelin, Lauren (2011). “Special Report: Super East-West Woman: Forty Pillars Solo
Show by Aphrodite Navab,” in Luxe Immo: Contemporary Art, pp 47-49.
• Feature article by Fourneaux, Marie-Emilie (2011). “Arts & Design: Aphrodite Désirée Navab” in Luxe
Immo: Contemporary Art, pp. 62-66.
Women, Windows, and the Word: Diverging Perspectives on Islamic Art (2011).
Lowe Art museum. pp 4-5.
• Heath, Jennifer (2011). The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, pp 42-43.
• Pinos, Dina (2010). “Aphrodite Désirée Navab” in Neo Magazine. May.
• Kostopoulos, Eleni (2010). “In the Spotlight: Aphrodite Navab,” in The National Herald. April 3-9.
• Soho20 Chelsea Catalog, NY, NY. 2012, pp 50-51.
• Soho20 Chelsea Catalog, NY, NY. 2010, pp 34-35.
• Koroxenides, Alexandra (2009). “Finding a Language and a Home in the Medium of Photography,” in the global edition of the New York Times: The International Herald Tribune. September 25, p. 27.
• Exhibition Catalog. Solo Show. She Speaks Greek Farsi. ICC Athens, Greece. 2009.
• Exhibition Catalog. Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Denise M. Gerson, curator. 2009.
• Cover Photograph. Featured portfolio. Washington Square Review. Winter 2007-8.
• Schaller, Rhonda (2007), Super East-West Woman: Living on the Axis, Fighting Evil Everywhere. Blue Pearl Press. Exhibition Catalog. Solo show.
• Cover photograph. Exhibition Catalog. Access: A Feminist Perspective. Rhonda Schaller Gallery. New York, NY. 2007.
• Fagan, Robert Jason and Hadieh Shafie (2007). Emergence.
• Cover photograph (2005), Environmentalism in the Muslim World. Richard C. Foltz (Ed.). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
• Cover photograph (forthcoming), L’Islam et L’Occident: Le Mythe de L’Autre. Quebec: Laval University Press.
• Graeme Sullivan (2005), Art Practice as Research, London: Sage Publications, pp. 56-57.
• Yvonne Gaudelius and Peg Speirs, eds., Contemporary Issues in Art Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002, pp. 30, 33, 34.
• Aphrodite Désirée Navab, “Re-picturing Photography: A Language in the Making,” Journal of Aesthetic Education 35/1 (2001), p. 70.
• Middle East Studies Association annual conference catalog, November 2000.
• Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
• Connections, The Dalton School, Spring 1999.
• “Portraits of Uzbekistan: A Photo Essay,” Communiqué 4/5, November 4, 1998.
Photo Metro magazine, winter 1997-98 issue.

Permanent Collections

Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL.

Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy.

Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Women’s Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Harn Museum of Fine Arts, Gainesville, FL.

Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL.

Museum of Fine Arts, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR.

Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Private Collections

Shirin Neshat
Reza Aslan
Edwin and Jocelyne Stern
Vincent and Anne Mai
Hooman Majd
Murat Koprulu
Marta de Radzyminski
Marta Bergamaschi
Maggie Pepper
Aurelie Athan and Jason Keramidis
Karlheinz Pichler
Rhonda Schaller
Robert Coles
Bernice Steinbaum
Ghazel
John Kenneth Galbraith
Maxine Greene
Olga Davidson
Judith Burton
Sussan Babaie
Graeme Sullivan
Barbara Jo Revelle

Publications About My Art

Joyce, Erin (2011). “Here She is to Save the Day: Artist Aphrodite Désirée Navab’s Photographic Narrative,” in Aslan Media. www.aslanmedia.com/artsculture/mideast-art/74-here-she-is-to-savethe-day-artist-aphrodite-desiree-navabs-photographic-narrative

Haimelin, Lauren (2011). “Special Report: Super East-West Woman: Forty Pillars Solo Show by Aphrodite Navab,” in Luxe Immo: Contemporary Art, pp 47-49.

Navab, Aphrodite (2011). De-Orientalizing Iran: The Art of Sevruguin, Neshat, Navab, and Ghazel. Lampert Academic Publishing, pp 133-164.

Fourneaux, Marie-Emilie (2011). “Arts & Design: Aphrodite Désirée Navab” in Luxe Immo: Contemporary Art, pp. 62-66

Heath, Jennifer (2011). The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, pp 42-43.

Pinos, Dina (2010). “Aphrodite Désirée Navab” in Neo Magazine. May.

Kostopoulos, Eleni (2010). “In the Spotlight: Aphrodite Navab,” in The National Herald. April 3-9.

Women, Windows, and the Word: Diverging Perspectives on Islamic Art (2011). Lowe Art museum. pp 4-5.

Soho20 Chelsea Catalog (2010), pp. 34-35.

Koroxenides, Alexandra (2009). “Finding a Language and a Home in the Medium of Photography,” in the global edition of the New York Times: The International Herald Tribune. September 25, p. 27.

Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection (2009). Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Denise M. Gerson, curator. Exhibition catalogue.

She Speaks Greek Farsi (2009). ICC Athens. Solo exhibition catalogue.

Schaller, Rhonda (2007). Super East-West Woman: Living on the Axis, Fighting Evil Everywhere. Blue Pearl Press. Solo Exhibition Catalogue.

Fagan, Robert Jason and Hadieh Shafie (2007). Emergence.

Sullivan, Graeme
(2005), Art Practice as Research, London: Sage Publications, pp. 56-57.
(2002). “Ideas and Teaching: Making Meaning from Contemporary Art,” in Yvonne Gaudelius and Peg Speirs, eds. Contemporary Issues in Art Education. NJ: Prentice Hall, 23-37.

Pooja Shah (2004), “Art Pushes Stereotypes Aside,” Temple News (Philadelphia), March 4.

“How is it Shadows I Knew You Not,” Columbia Record (New York), September 11, 1998.

Professional Organizations

Network 20/20, AGAPW: Association of Greek American Professional Women, CAA: College Art Association, SPE: Society for Photographic Education.