Neda Moridpour is a cultural futurist, artist, and organizer whose research investigates the cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and systemic inequity. Through community-based participatory research and socially engaged art, they create collaborative spaces that center mutual care, community building, and the imagining of collective futures. Their research, teaching, organizing, and artistic work intersect through lens-based media, public interventions, and digital-physical platforms that transform everyday experiences into acts of speculative resistance and solidarity.
Moridpour is the co-founder of three artist-activist collectives:
LOUDER THAN WORDS, recipient of the Women's Caucus for Art International Honor Roll Award and recognized by the Mayor of Los Angeles;
[P]Art Collective, whose animation LA DOLCE VITA was an official selection of the Buffalo and Burbank International Film Festivals; and
HAMDEL FUTURIST COLLABORATIVE, a 2026 Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize nominee and invited participant at the 2026 Mozilla Festival.
Their work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Printed Matter, JUSTSEEDS, the Palestine Poster Project, Art Against Apartheid, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
Moridpour is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. Their achivements include an Onassis ONX Fellowship (2025, 2026), a 2025 Royal Shakespeare Company Interdisciplinary Fellowship at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, a 2025 MacDowell Fellowship, a 2025 Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency, the 2025 Un-monument: Temporary Monument Award from the Boston Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture, and a 2025 Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals. At Tufts, they have received the 2026 CEPAR Fellowship, a 2025 Tisch College Community Research Center (TCRC) grant, a 2025 Universal Design for Learning Fellowship, the 2024 MUSE Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the 2023 MacJannet Artist Residency, and a 2018 Tisch Faculty Fellowship, among others.