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Phone: (972) 721-5319
Email: gallery@udallas.edu
Office: Beatrice M. Haggerty Art Gallery
Vahid Valikhani is an artist and curator who serves as Director of the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at the University of Dallas. His work spans artistic practice, education, and research.
In addition to his institutional work, Valikhani independently curates exhibitions and collaborates with artists throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth region and beyond. Most recently, he curated Unstable Ground: Landscape, Memory, and the Shifting Self at Cedars Union in Dallas, a group exhibition that brought together regional artists exploring landscape, place, and identity through photography, installation, and material-based practices. As an educator, he has taught photography, film, humanities, and professional practice courses across public, private, and community college settings, emphasizing visual literacy, critical inquiry, and experimentation.
His artistic practice centers on landscape and portrait photography, examining the relationships between place, memory, identity, and power. He is the author of the monograph Nebraska, Tampa: The Return to the Streets. His research focuses on visual culture, politics, and resistance, with particular attention to documentary and experimental cinema and the ways artists and filmmakers negotiate systems of censorship and power.