ABASEH MIRVALI
Abaseh Mirvali is the President of Mirvali Projects, an independent contemporary arts organization. She previously served as the Executive Director of the internationally renowned Fundación/Colección Jumex: during her tenure, she coordinated a number of major exhibitions that established it as a leading force in the contemporary Latin American art world. The vigor and quality of Fundación/Colección Jumex today is a testament to her work there over the past years. Mirvali also sits on the selection committee for several foundations, and in addition to advisory and directorial roles, is an internationally recognized contemporary art commentator and jurist. She has served on several juries such as the Volta Show and the Toronto Photography Festival in 2006 and was invited to moderate at ArteBA in 2007 and at ArtBasel and Art Forum Berlin in 2009. In 2010, she was invited to speak on a panel on contemporary arts and gender in Los Angeles and will be moderating an Art Basel conversation on the contemporary art scene in Beirut at Art Basel this summer.