Mitra Abbaspour

Mitra Monir Abbaspour is an American art curator and specialist in art history of the Middle East who is the Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the Harvard Art Museums’ division of modern and contemporary art.

Life Abbaspour earned with a B.A. in studio art and art history from Scripps College in 1999. In 2000, Abbaspour designed an educational database of the permanent collection of the University of California, Riverside (UCR) Sweeney Art Gallery.

Abbaspour was an assistant curator, museum writer, and director of public relations at the UCR/California Museum of Photography. In August 2023, she was named the Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the Harvard Art Museums’ division of modern and contemporary art. She begins the role on September 11.