​​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 RAISIN artistic director and curator Asha Iman Veal, www.raisin-vol-1.org

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

Asha Iman Veal is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. She focuses on interdisciplinary projects that advocate cross-cultural solidarity across geographic or political distance. Her recent curatorial projects and exhibitions include: LOVE: Still Not the Lesser at MoCP (2023); 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); Dream at Hyde Park Art Center (2021); and more. Asha Iman's 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). She is Associate Professor Adj. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

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