Neda Moridpour
Neda Moridpour (she/they) is a Kurdish-Iranian cultural futurist, artist, and organizer whose research investigates cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and systemic inequities. Through community-based participatory research methodologies and socially engaged art projects, they create collaborative spaces that center mutual care, community building, and the visualization of future world-building. Their teaching, organizing, and art-making intersect through lens-based practices, public interventions, and digital-physical platforms that transform everyday experiences into acts of speculative resistance and solidarity.
Moridpour is 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 animation LA DOLCE VITA was officially selected for the Buffalo and Burbank International Film Festivals; and the Hamdel Futurist Collaborative, recipient of the 2025 MacDowell Fellowship. Their work has been exhibited internationally in the U.S., Iran, and China, and is held in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Printed Matter, JUSTSEEDS, Art Against Apartheid, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
They continue their research and education as a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctorate Program at Tufts University, while teaching as Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tisch College of Civic Life. Moridpour is also a Royal Shakespeare Company Interdisciplinary Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. Their recent honors include the 2025 Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency, the 2025 Un-monument: Temporary Monument Award from Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, the 2025 Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, and the 2025 MacDowell Fellowship. At Tufts, they have also been awarded the 2025 Tisch College Community Research Center (TCRC) grant, the 2025 Universal Design for Learning Fellowship, the 2023 MacJannet Artist Residency, the 2018 Tisch Faculty Fellowship, and the 2024 MUSE Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, among others.