Studio Lecture Series: Niloufar Emamifar

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Niloufar Emamifar’s practice includes sculptural, filmic, and architectural elements, as well as collaborative, site-specific and linguistic ones. Her work often explores the causal connections between site, situation, and subjectivity, and the psychosocial dynamics inherent in built space.

Her lecture unfolds in chapters that move between past and present work, beginning with her collaborations with anti-establishment architectural collectives and extending toward the architecture of crisis. She approaches crisis not as spectacle or sudden rupture, but as a structural counter-position operating within totalizing systems sustained by certainty and narrative coherence.

Niloufar Emamifar currently lives in New York. She has exhibited her work at various institutions, including Kunsthalle Zürich; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; MoMA PS1, New York; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; SculptureCenter, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Italy, among others.

She has participated in programs including the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP); the Capp Street Fellowship at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Amant Foundation, New York; and the London College of Communication, London.

Emamifar holds a BFA in Architecture from Soore School of Architecture in Tehran, Iran, and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine.

VISITOR INFORMATION

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for seating. Admission is free.

Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at [email protected].

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