Alireza Bayat
Curator · Art Historian · Writer · Poet
Exploring cultural memory, Persianate aesthetics, Qajar iconography, and diasporic art.
Current & Recent
It’s Familiar
Manitoba Craft Council / C2 Centre for Craft, Winnipeg — 2025 · Curator
View exhibition →Dwelling in Thresholds
School of Art, University of Manitoba — opens August 26, 2026 · Curator. A group exhibition on distance, memory, and dwelling.
Learn more →Recent Writing
Dusk After Dusk — a chapbook on falling, photography, and the unequal afterlives of images, published with the exhibition Can the Afghan Speak (Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, 2024).