Pantea Haghighi is an independent curator and the owner of Republic Gallery. She is a graduate of the art history program at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Curatorial projects include Unsent Dispatches from the Iranian Revolution,1978–1979, Presentation House Gallery, 2005; the Utopias Constructed series, Republic Gallery, 2014–18; Mirrored Explosions, West Vancouver Museum, 2016; and the forthcoming where/between, Equinox Gallery, June 2016.