Isabella Ellaheh Hughes
Isabella Ellaheh Hughes is an independent curator, critic
and art and cultural projects consultant with international
experience in both the commercial and non-profit art
world. She has worked for a variety of museums, art fairs,
galleries and cultural organizations in the US, United
Arab Emirates and UK and contributes to the journal
Contemporary Practices, Persianesque, Brownbook and is
the Dubai Editor for ArtAsiaPacific. Hughes has curated
exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of
the American Indian, Washington, DC, the Center on
Contemporary Art, Seattle, Transformer, Washington, DC.
Hughes specializes in contemporary art with an academic
interest in the rise of transculture and focus on art from the
Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and their respective diaspora.
Hughes has a BA in Art History from Boston University
and an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins
University. A frequent public speaker on contemporary art
and cultural diplomacy, Hughes recently had the honor
of being a keynote speaker, speaking on the subject of
contemporary art as an agent of cultural diplomacy for the
International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the
USA in May 2011 and has spoken at the University of
Hawai???i, Transformer, Smithsonian National Museum of
the American Indian, The Fridge and most recently in July
2011, at the Cafesjian Museum.
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Author Essays
“A New Way to Look at Art” - Ikono TV
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| | Inside Important Collections of Arab and Iranian Contemporary Art: Interviews with Leading Collectors and their Collection Curators
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| | Profile on Pooneh Maghazehe
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| | Public Art in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi: Kurt Perschke’s Red Ball Project
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| | Rania Ezzat
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| | A Visual Overview:
The Arab Presence in the Maldives
Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale
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