Duygu Demir
Research Assistant Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA Columbia College, Columbia University; PhD MIT
Research Areas: Art History, Modernisms, Contemporary Art
Duygu Demir has a combined BA degree in Visual Arts and Art History from Columbia University in New York, and a PhD in Art History from MIT’s department of Architecture.
Her dissertation, titled “A Syncretic Modernism” focused on articulations of painting in the late-Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey. Her research has been supported by various grants from MIT in addition to a dissertation research fellowship from Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. She is interested in modern and contemporary art, especially but not exclusively of the non-Western variety. Demir's academic writing has appeared in Art Margins (2014), Thresholds (2018), both from MIT Press, as well as Art Journal (2019). She also writes essays, articles and reviews on contemporary art. She is an editorial committee member and contributor to the upcoming AUC Press publication titled Chronicle of the 1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures, and Beginnings in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey, edited by Anneka Lenssen, Nada Shabout and Sarah Rogers.
Prior to joining NYUAD, Demir was Assistant Professor of Art History at Sabancı University.