Léuli Eshrāghi

Léuli Eshrāghi is a Sāmoan/Persian/Cantonese artist, writer, curator and researcher working between Australia and Canada. They intervene in display territories to center global Indigenous and Asian diasporic visuality, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices. They engage with Indigenous futurities as haunted by ongoing militourist and missionary violences that once erased faʻafafine-faʻatane people from kinship and knowledge structures. Eshrāghi is Curator of the 9th TarraWarra Biennial in 2023, Curatorial Researcher in Residence at the University of Queensland Art Museum, and Scientific Advisor (Reclaim the Earth) at the Palais de Tokyo. In 2022, Eshrāghi led the first global Indigenous art criticism edition of the Momus Emerging Critics Residency, titled Writing Relations, Making Futurities.

Eshrāghi has realized art commissions for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sharjah Biennial 14, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center among other group and solo presentations, including the 17th MOMENTA Biennale de l’image. They have lectured at gatherings Expo Dubai, Creative Time, Hawaiʻi Contemporary Art Summit, Experimenter Curators’ Hub, March Meeting, Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange, Dhaka Art Summit, Pacific Arts Association, and Asia Pacific Triennial, as well as at various universities. Eshrāghi was inaugural Horizon/Indigenous Futures postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, and curatorial consultant on international Indigenous art for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Their award-winning research includes a PhD in Curatorial Practice from Monash University (Tracey Banivanua Marr PhD Prize 2020, Australian Association for Pacific Studies), and a BA (Honours) in Francophone Literature from University of Melbourne.