​​ACT 2 SCENE 2, by artist Kierah Kiki King, dancer Desire Jones / part of the exhibition RAISIN
on view September 17 – December 18, 2021 as a partner program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial
exhibition developed and led by curator Asha Iman Veal, www.raisin-vol-1.org

Featured artworks by RAISIN artists Kierah Kiki King (Chicago), Kat Liu (Chicago), Tran Tran (Chicago), Nushin Yazdani (Berlin), Marina Cavadini (Milan), Işıl Eğrikavuk (Berlin).

Asha Iman Veal is a curator whose work advocates cross-cultural solidarity across communities that are often kept apart by geographic or political distance. She is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), and faculty at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Asha Iman is a Humanity in Action Landecker Democracy Senior Fellow (EU/UK/USA). 

Her recent exhibitions include: Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not the Lesser Part at MoCP (2022); RAISIN as a partner program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2021); Martine Gutierrez at MoCP (2021); and Dream at Hyde Park Art Center (2021). Her previous work includes curatorial, publication, and research projects in Chicago, New York, Edinburgh, Vietnam, Juárez, Havana, and Tokyo; as well as serving as Associate Festival Producer for playwright Eve Ensler’s V-Day global movement to end violence against women and girls (New York). Since 2017 she has been faculty at SAIC, Associate Professor Adj., where she developed the Being a Woman of Color in the Arts course, as well as leads undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Arts Administration & Policy. Asha Iman advocates for the nonprofit arts and education sector as a member of the BMW Foundation's Responsible Leaders Network (global table) and Transatlantic Core Group (Germany/US), as well as a new member of the Board of Heaven Gallery (Chicago).
B.A. The Gallatin School at New York University, M.F.A. The New School, M.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(link to full bio)