Nooshfar Afnan is a writer, author and curator based in Toronto.

Nooshfar has spent two decades living in China, where she immersed herself in the vibrant contemporary art scene and has written numerous articles, exhibition reviews and artist interviews for magazines such as Frieze, ArtAsiaPacific and ARTOMITY. She holds an MA in Art History from Carleton University, Ottawa.

Her written work includes catalogue essay Li Nu “As If Sand Were Stone” Today Art Museum, Beijing, Berlin: Holzwarth Publications (forthcoming). English editor A Story of Father and Son, by Jiang, Tao & Edward, Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House 2023. Author with Joe Carter, The Baha’i House of Worship: Design, Construction and Community, Oxford: George Ronald, 2022. Catalogue essay “Feng Lianghong ‘Forest Hills’” N3 Gallery, Beijing 2022. “Farley Aguilar: History Beckons”, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, 2021. “Harmony and the Test of Time: Xiang Yang’s Transfiguration House at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan”, 2018.

Nooshfar curated Feng Zhijia “Psychedelic Iteration” EGG Gallery, Beijing 2023. She co-curated with Gao Yi, Christina Kubisch’s “Electrical Walks – Shanghai”, UN Art Center, Shanghai 2018.

She serves as a jury member of the public art selection committee for the city of Mississauga, Ontario 2025/26.