My work is included in this group exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, on view April 22 through June 13, 2015:
a curious blindness reflects a moment captured by eighteen
early- to mid-career artists who engage with the complex climate of race and
identity politics. Despite their varied backgrounds and influences, there is a
shared consciousness of how people of color are treated and represented in a
purportedly post–racial era. The selection of works within the exhibition
responds and reacts to the institutionalized racism that permeates the
quotidian through media, consumer capitalism, and the art-historical canon. The
artists are influenced by ideas of portraiture, seriality, and the consumable
that evoke the ways in which the body of color has been objectified and
abbreviated through time.
a curious blindness is curated by Vivian Chui, Tara
Kuruvilla, and Doris Zhao. It is the third presentation of MODA Curates—an
annual opportunity offered by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the
MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies Program (MODA) for
outstanding curatorial proposals related to students' theses.
Artists: Elia Alba,
Firelei Baez, Suzanne Broughel, Ling Chun, Suntek Chung, Amir H. Fallah, Paula
Garcia, Girl (Chitra Ganesh & Simone Leigh), Hassan Hajjaj, Nora Howell,
Timothy Hyunsoo Lee, Ahmed Mater, Divya Mehra, Jayson Musson, Rashaad Newsome,
Sondra Perry, Paul Anthony Smith
A pdf of the exhibition catalog is available here.
A pdf of the exhibition catalog is available here.
Gallery website.
NY Times review by
Holland Cotter.
