Angel of Critique

Salar Mameni
Thursday 12 March
5pm
MB 9EG
SGW Campus
Concordia University

This talk will be hybrid, and the zoom registration link is here: http://bit.ly/4bisAX0

In addition, there will be a workshop at noon on Friday 13 March in the lab, registration is now closed.

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Salar Mameni is an artist, art historian and associate professor of comparative ethnic studies and affiliated faculty in the History of Art Department at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author ofTerracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2023), which received honorable mention from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present in 2024 and Outstanding Achievement in Media, Performance, and Visual Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2025. Mameni is the recipient of the Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and is currently completing a second book project titled Blood of Tulips.

Mameni’s essays have appeared in scholarly journals Representations, Qui Parle, Catalyst, Ramus, Resilience, Signs, Women & Performance, Critical Ethnic Studies, Visual Studies, Routledge Companion to Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change, and Al-Raida. His art criticism has been published in Canadian Art Journal, Fuse Magazine, and Fillip Review and in exhibition catalogues at the Third Line Gallery in Dubai, Mana gallery in Istanbul, and Sharjah Biennial.

As an artist, Mameni has participated in numerous exhibitions with drawings in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. Most recently, Mameni has collaborated on lecture performances with Roshanak Kheshti performed at Human Resources in Los Angeles, ProArts Gallery in Oakland, Goldsmiths college in London, the Listening Academy in London, and the Hemispheric Institute held in Mexico City.

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Poster credit: Setayesh Nejadi