Yalda Bidshahri is an Iranian curator and writer in the United Arab Emirates.

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CURATING

✨2024✨

• In your dreams/في أحلامك/مگه خوابشو ببینی, Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai​​​​​​​​​​

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WRITING

✨2026✨​

• Exhibition text for I Bloom Where You Hold Me at Gallery Isabelle, Dubai

• On Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai’s Plate It with Silver (2015) - The Hook

✨2025✨​

• Exhibition text for IMPROVISATIONS at Gallery Isabelle, Dubai

• LANDSCAPES OF ADORATION - Canvas

• Mohammad Alfaraj Entwines Community and Ecology - Frieze

• When the Camera Is a Tool for Resistance - ArtReview Asia

• THROUGH THE HANDS OF TIME - Canvas

• THE RISE OF AFRICAN ART - ARTMAP

✨2024✨

• Elemental: Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial at NYUAD Art Gallery - Canvas

✨2023✨

• ‘Memory Is the Seamstress’ Revives Material Heritage - Frieze

• Dorsa Asadi - Artforum

• Rana Begum’s Optical Shifts - ArtReview Asia

• What Are We All Without Water? - ArtReview Asia

• In search for a "PARADISE4EVER" - ArtAsiaPacific

• Khaleej Modern - Artforum

• FIGURES OF INTENT - Canvas

✨2022✨

• Michael Rakowitz’s Tender Revival of Assyrian Cultural Heritage - ArtReview Asia

• Mohamed Khalid - Artforum

• “Ybna Al3eid” - Artforum

• MORE THAN A FEELING - Canvas

• Farah Al Qasimi: Contrast, Harmony, Permeation  - ArtReview Asia

• Taus Makhacheva’s “A Space of Celebration” - ArtAsiaPacific​​​