Iftikhar Dadi is John H. Burris professor of History of Art at Cornell University. He researches transnational modern and contemporary art with a focus on Asia. He has authored Lahore Cinema Between Realism and Fable (2022), Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (2010) and edited the Lahore Biennale Reader 01 (2022) and Anwar Jalal Shemza (2015). He has co-edited the Lahore Biennale Reader 02 (2024); Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and Their European Diasporas (2023); Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (2012); andUnpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading (2001). Co-curated exhibitions include Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular (2022–23) and Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (2012–13).
As an artist, Iftikhar Dadi collaborates with Elizabeth Dadi on questions of identity, borders, and the capacities of the informal urban realm in the Global South.
