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# Duygu Demir Appointed Curator at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/duygu-demir-appointed-curator-nyuad-art-gallery/
- Published: 2023-12-08T19:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:12:49.000Z
- Description: A founding member of Turkish contemporary art space SALT, Demir brings to NYUAD her training in non-Western modernism and commitment to global contemporary art and cultural production.
- Author: NYU Abu Dhabi
- Tags: Announcement, Art Education Announcements, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:29 (2023, 2024, part 1)

[New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)](https://bit.ly/3QZ1CJP?ref=hyperallergic.com) has appointed art historian and curator [Duygu Demir](https://bit.ly/3N1JNsz?ref=hyperallergic.com) to the post of Curator of the university’s Art Gallery, and Research Assistant Professor of Art History. Originally from Turkey, Demir is a founding member of SALT, a research-based cultural institution in Istanbul. Before joining NYUAD, Demir was Assistant Art History Professor at Sabancı University.

As the [NYUAD Art Gallery](https://bit.ly/3N5fOQk?ref=hyperallergic.com) enters its 10th year of exhibitions and publications, Demir's appointment is intended to advance the gallery's commitment to using exhibition-making as a mode of investigation, supporting experimentation in form and concept, and charting new areas of art history.

In keeping with the NYUAD Art Gallery’s mission as a teaching institution and a core catalyst for NYU Abu Dhabi as a locus of intellectual and creative activity, Demir will also support the university’s Arts and Humanities division as a Research Assistant Professor. Her academic research topics include non-Western modernisms, exhibition histories, transnational artistic encounters, and moments of confluence between art and architecture. Her academic writing has appeared in MIT Press's *Art Margins* (2014) and *Thresholds* (2018), as well as *Art Journal* (2019).

Demir’s most recent curatorial project is a survey of art from Turkey made in the last decade, currently on view at İMALAT-HANE in Bursa. Last year, she worked on solo presentations of work by Deniz Aktaş and Gözde İlkin, both for artSümer in Istanbul (2022). While at SALT, she co-curated several critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions and accompanying public programs, and edited two monographic publications: one on conceptualist İsmail Saray (2018) and another for Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (2011). In addition to numerous exhibition catalogue contributions, she was one of the authors of *Art Cities of the Future: Avant-Gardes of the 21st Century* (Phaidon, 2013), a nominator and contributor for *Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing* (Phaidon, 2013), as well as the editor of *Room of Rhythms–Cevdet Erek* (Walther König, 2012).

**To learn more, visit** [**nyuad.nyu.edu**](https://bit.ly/3N1JNsz?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**