Dr. Nada Shabout
Dr. Nada Shabout is a Regents Professor of Art History and the Coordinator of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas. She is the founding president of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA) and founding director of Modern Art Iraq Archive (MAIA). Shabout has published widely on modern and contemporary Arab and Iraqi art. She is the author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, University of Florida Press, 2007; co-editor, New Vision: Arab Art in the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson, 2009; and co-editor, Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018. Notable among exhibitions she has curated: A Banquette for Seaweed: Snapshots from the Arab 1980s, 2022-2023; Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, 2010; traveling exhibition, Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, 2005-2009; and co-curator, Modernism and Iraq, 2009. Major awards of her research include Getty Foundation Grant in 2019, Writers Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation 2018; The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) fellow 2006, 2007, Fulbright Senior Scholar Program, 2008. She received the Presidential Excellency Award, UNT 2018 and the 2020 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. Shabout was the Project Advisor for the Saudi National Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019, and on the Founding Board of Directors, Visual Art Commission, Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia (2020-2023, 2024-2027); she serves on the Board of The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII); and the College Art Association (caa) Board of Directors (2020-2024).

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