Sandra Skurvida was born in Vilnius and has lived in New York since 1996. She has been engaging with art from Iran since 2010 and has curated and organized numerous presentations of Iranian video art internationally, and convened, in partnership with the Iran Research Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Asia Society in New York, the international symposium “Iran: Art and Discourse.” Skurvida has published extensively on the sociopolitical aspects of contemporary art—most recently, “Barbad Golshiri’s Acts of Alterity,” ArtMargins (MIT, 2023), and “Iranian or Not: Sociopolitical Conditions of Art Representation,” Transcultural Interplay Through Art and Social Life: Iranian Diaspora in Europe and Beyond (Königshausen & Neumann, 2022). She is working on a book titled Iran Files: Art in Resistance, 2009-2022.