Leeza Ahmady

Leeza Ahmady is a curator and educator on art and cultural diversity. She grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan until she moved to New York as a young teenager. Ahmady has produced over one hundred events at venues such as the Asia Society, Whitney Museum, Queens Museum of Art and the 2001 Venice Biennale. She is currently studying at the Pratt Institute in Manhattan, where she will receive her masters in Arts and Cultural Management.

Programs

Urgency and Relevance: A Curatorial Perspective, host

Take 4: Murtaza Vali, host

Patrick Flores, host

Erin Gleeson, Season of Cambodia, host

dOCUMENTA(13) Project: 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, host

Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art, host

Asian Contemporary Art Week, host

Asia & The Caribbean: Hitomi Iwasaki & Herb Tam, host

Almagul Menlibayeva, host

Alexander Ugay and Yuliya Sorokina, host

ACAW 11: Yeondoo Jung, host

ACAW 11: Yang Jiechang and Zheng Shengtian, host

ACAW 11: Women, Arts, and Activism - Karin Chien, Amita Swadhin, Chang-Jin Lee, host

ACAW 11: Ushio Shinohara & Tomokazu Matsuyama, host

ACAW 11: On Biennials - David Elliott, Massimiliano Gioni & Suzanne Cotter, host

ACAW 11: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, host

ACAW 11: Mariam Ghani, host

ACAW 11: Jungjin Lee, Wind, host

ACAW 11: Fong Wah Phoebe Hui, Chaw Ei Thein, Firoz Mahmud, host

ACAW 09: Zarina Hashmi and Seher Shah, host

ACAW 09: Transience in Photography, host

ACAW 09: The Life and Work of Murakami Kagaku (1889-1939), host

ACAW 09: Lisa Ross and Nan Goldin, host

ACAW 08: Viswanadhan Velu, host

ACAW 08: Ranbir Kaleka, host

ACAW 08: O Zhang at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, host

ACAW 08: Hiroshi Sunairi and Yuken Teruya, host

ACAW 06: Melissa Chiu, Esa Epstein, and Shumita Bose, host

ACAW 06: Keiko Uenishi and Haeyoung Kim, host

ACAW 06: Jiang Hu, Contemporary Chinese Art, host

ACAW 06: Fast Futures, Asian Video Art at the Rubin Museum, host

ACAW 06: Dialogues in Contemporary Asian Art, Take 4, host

ACAW 06: Action Painting Battle!, host

ACAW 06 : Working with the Diaspora, Asian Contemporary Art, host