Nada Shabout has been a professor of art history at the University of North Texas since 2002.
18 Facts About Nada Shabout
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Nada Shabout is the president and co-founding board member of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey.
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Nada Shabout was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the oldest of three children born to a Palestinian mother and Iraqi father.
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Nada Shabout has earned BFA fine arts, MA and PhD in the Humanities with a concentration in art history and criticism from the University of Texas at Arlington, 1999.
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Nada Shabout has been an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas since 2002, teaching Arab visual culture and Islamic art.
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Nada Shabout has been working on the documentation of modern Iraqi heritage, particularly the collection previously held at the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art since her visit to Baghdad in June 2003.
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Nada Shabout has been organizing panels and presenting around the world on the state of Iraq's modern heritage following 2003, the relationship of identity and visual representations in modern and contemporary Iraqi art, and exhibitions of Middle Eastern arts in the West since 911.
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Nada Shabout is a co-founder and president of the Association of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey.
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In 2020, Nada Shabout was elected for a four-year term to the 2020 College Art Association of America, Inc Board of Directors meeting Feb 14 at the 108th CAA Annual Conference in Chicago.
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Nada Shabout was a long-term advisor at Mathaf and a member of the Board of Governors of the Cultural Development Center of the Qatar Foundation.
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Nada Shabout founded, together with Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Saleem Al-Bahloly, the Modern Art Iraq Archive in 2011.
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Nada Shabout was a regent professor of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative at the University of North Texas.
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Nada Shabout has edited the exhibition catalogue "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art".
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Nada Shabout has curated a number of exhibitions for Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, including "Interventions: A Dialogue Between the Modern and the Contemporary" and "Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art" in 2010.
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Nada Shabout is the author of several articles that examine legal and ethical responsibilities of the US in Iraq after 2003, including:.
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Nada Shabout was the first professor from the department of Art Education and Art History to receive this award in the 33 years that the award had existed.
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In 2021, Nada Shabout received the Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, known regionally as the "Arab Nobel Prize," the foundation recognizes lifetime achievements of Arab researchers.
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Also in 2021, Nada Shabout was selected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery to deliver a Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art.