Homa Taraji

Ms. Homa Taraji is a curator of contemporary Iranian art in the United States. Since 2002, Ms. Taraji has organized several successful exhibitions of Iranian art in Los Angeles, New York, Houston and Boston. Ms. Taraji’s focus is the work of Iranian artists who live and work in Iran. She has established working relationships with art collectors and galleries in Tehran and a broad base of artists whose work she represents in the U.S.


Ms. Taraji is a co-founder and Executive Director of the American Foundation for Contemporary Iranian Art (www.afcia.org), a non-profit organization for promotion of contemporary Iranian art in the U.S.

In parallel with arts, Ms. Taraji is a senior engineer at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA, where she develops and manages domestic and international customers for space systems technology.

Prior to Aerospace, Ms. Taraji was the Manager of Information Systems at the Getty Museum. Before that, she held the position of IT Senior Manager at Ernst & Young Management Consulting. Ms. Taraji was with General Electric Information Services as a project manager of financial applications in New York and Los Angeles. She started her career as a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena working on Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn.

Ms. Taraji holds a B.S. degree in Physics and an M.S. in Electronics from Tehran University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. She has been the recipient of NASA Group Achievement Award, Goddard Trophy, Milstar Recognition Award, and several GE technical awards.