This unprecedented exhibition features contemporary artists from the Middle East, Central Asia, and its diasporas, whose works use different methods of translation. Encompassing a variety of media and artistic strategies, the exhibition examines the different ways that artists engage with people, objects, images, and ideas traveling across geographic spaces, media forms, histories, and personal contexts. "Tarjama/Translation" treats the multiple processes of translation as dynamic and complex, from linguistic and textual devices to the persistence of historical memory and the transformations engendered by increasing globalization.

This exhibition has been organized by ArteEast (www.arteeast.org) and curated by Leeza Ahmady, independent curator; Iftikhar Dadi, associate professor, Department of the History of Art/interim chair, Department of Art; and Reem Fadda, PhD candidate in the History of Art.

Major support for "Tarjama/Translation" has been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support was provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the A. M. Qattan Foundation. The Johnson Museum's presentation was funded in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Jarett F. Wait and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Eastern Arts.