Email
acaw.contact@gmail.com

Phone
+1 646-416-6454

Fax
+1 845-681-5058

Address
Asia Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF)
313 West 143rd Street. Sub-level
New York, NY 10030

ACAF Team

Leeza Ahmady, Director & Curator

Yam Chew Oh, Treasurer & Strategic Development

Sahar Khraibani, Platform Fellow

Born and raised in Afghanistan, Leeza Ahmady is a New York based independent curator noted for her foundational research concerning art practices in Central Asia. Since 2005, she has directed the educational and curatorial platform Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), which partners with leading institutions in New York and Asia to present significant artists, curators and practitioners in special exhibitions, performances and forums in the United States, Asia and beyond. Ahmady was an agent for dOCUMENTA(13) exhibitions in Kassel, Germany and Kabul, Afghanistan (2010-2013). She has presented exhibitions and programs at numerous local and international venues including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asia Society, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Independent Curators International, Queens Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Istanbul Biennial, and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, among many others.