Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Abigail Lapin Dardashti is assistant professor of art history at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in art history from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research examines modern and contemporary Latin American, Latinx, and African diasporic art with a focus on international exchange, migration, racial formation, and activism. Her work has received funding from the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Program, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Mellon Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has curated exhibitions at BRIC, Brooklyn, and Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, and has served as curatorial fellow at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, exhibition catalogues, and edited volumes in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.
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Projects
Events
Conversation
Transnationalism and Public Space: Afro-Brazilian Art in Context
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Conference
Art and Literature in Contemporary Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas
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Panel Discussion
The Performance of Blackness in Contemporary Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
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Conference
In Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Modern Impulse in Brazil at Midcentury
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Panel Discussion
Keynote Panel for “In Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Modern Impulse in Brazil at Midcentury”
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Symposium
Art, Race, and Fluidity in Dominican Republic and Haiti
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