Lila Nazemian (she/her) is an independent curator and the Programs Director at ArteEast in New York. In 2022, she joined the Brooklyn-based Transmitter gallery as a co-director.

Lila’s research and curatorial practice are focused on reimagining approaches to histories from the Middle East/Southwest Asia North Africa (SWANA) and Central Asia regions in an effort to counter narrative revisionism and collective amnesia. Central to her investigations are examining artist and community based approaches to subverting institutional forms of knowledge production and dissemination. Recent curatorial projects include: “The Bride Has Gone To Pick Flowers,” Cue Art, New York, (2025); “Conjuring Flames,” Arsenal Contemporary, New York, (2023); and “Now That We Have Established A Common Ground” within Protocinema’s Emerging Curator Series, (2022). Nazemian teaches part-time at NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Art & Art Professions. She received a B.A. in History from Scripps College, California; and an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from N.Y.U., New York. She was a QAYYEM 2019 Curatorial Fellow, was among the inaugural participants of the 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York and participated in ICI’s 2018 Curatorial Intensive in Bangkok.