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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).
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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. (link to full bio) |