Neda Moridpour is a Kurdish Iranian artist, educator, organizer, and cultural futurist whose work investigates cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and systemic inequities. Through socially engaged art and participatory research methodologies, they create collaborative spaces that center mutual care, collective knowledge production, and the visualization of possibilities for social change. Their interdisciplinary practice draws from intersectional feminism, abolitionist thought, and decolonial frameworks to reimagine both the role of the archive and the act of resistance in public and digital spaces.
Moridpour’s teaching, organizing, and art-making intersect through lens-based practices, performance, public interventions, and both physical and digital dialogical platforms that transform everyday experiences into acts of resistance, care, and solidarity. They are the co-founder of three artist-activist collectives: LOUDER THAN WORDS, recipient of the Women’s Caucus for Art International Honor Roll award and recognized by the Mayor of Los Angeles; [P]Art Collective, whose short animation La Dolce Vita was officially selected for the Buffalo and Burbank International Film Festivals; and the Hamdel Futurist Collaborative, which received a 2025 MacDowell Fellowship and centers kinship and collective futurities through art, organizing, and mutual aid.
Their work has been exhibited internationally in the U.S., Iran, and China, and is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, JUSTSEEDS, Printed Matter, the Palestine Poster Project, Art Against Apartheid, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
Moridpour is a Professor of the Practice at both the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, where they lead cross-disciplinary initiatives in socially engaged art, digital humanities, and civic practice. Their contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous fellowships, residencies, and awards, including those from the MacDowell Fellowship, MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and Co-Creation Studio in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency Program, the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Unmonument | Re-monument | De-monument initiative, the Tisch Faculty Fellowship, SELECT and CELT Equity and Inclusion Fellowships, the 2023 MacJannet Residency, and the 2024 MUSE Award from Tufts’ Office of the Vice Provost for Research.
At MacDowell, Moridpour developed “Embodied Resistance in the Digital Age,” a dynamic, participatory archive that explores the intersections of feminism, memory, and technology. The project engages with the Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF) Archive. Drawing on AI, AR, and VR technologies, the project challenges dominant archival models that marginalize embodied and subaltern knowledge, instead offering a multisensory and co-created approach that foregrounds resistance as an ongoing, relational process. It offers a blueprint for how emerging technologies can be mobilized to foster transnational feminist solidarities, dismantle neoliberal narratives, and amplify the voices of those who continue to fight for justice, autonomy, and radical care.
