ASHA IMAN VEAL
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2014 - early career   ongoing



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Exhibitions & Residency at Hyde Park Art Center
​​Preview 9: A Boldness to Dare and Try
The Tokyo Show: Black & Brown Are Beautiful.
Ground Floor 2018 Biennial
Arts For Illinois / COVID-19 artists relief platform​​

Distance Between Words: Conversations about Culture, Language, Family
A Raisin in the Sun: by Lorraine Hansberry:

Deborah Boardman: Painter &
Exhibitions at The Sullivan Galleries 2016-2017
​V-Day global movement to end violence against women
Cross-Cultural Dialogues Through the Arts
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​or printed books and digital
​emerge: Journal of Arts Administration and Policy
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Brooklyn (the black)
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The Places We've Been: ​Field Reports from Travelers Under 35​

arts ecologies, arts organizations, leadership models
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Arts Ecologies, Arts Organizations
Leadership Models
 
 
2021 - 2019
Exhibitions & Residency Program at Hyde Park Art Center
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(l) artist Folayemi (Fo) Wilson's installation "Dark Matter: Celestial Objects as Messengers of Love in These Troubled Times", and (r) special performance at the installation by Ben Lamar Gay and Krista Franklin, July 2019 (photos by Tom Van Ende and Tran Tran) / staff role at Hyde Park Art Center exhibitions and residency team
Preview 9: A Boldness to Dare and Try
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video still from "NOT EXACTLY LOVE" by artist Leticia Bernaus, as part of group exhibition Preview 9: A Boldness to Dare and Try, September 2019 / invited guest curator, Chicago Artists Coalition
​The Tokyo Show: Black & Brown Are Beautiful
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barcode panels from "R.E.S.I.S.T." by artist Jose Resendiz, 2019, as part of exhibition exploring cross-cultural solidarity across communities that are kept apart by geographic or political distance, July - September 2019 (photo by Tran Tran) / curator, Hyde Park Art Center
Arts For Illinois / COVID-19 artists relief platform
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platform homepage and video still from "Con_ACT" by artist Jakob Wirth, 2020 / invited guest co-curator, Arts Alliance Illinois
Raisin
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(L) Sweden 2016, photo by Isma'il Kushkush / The New York Times (R) Beijing 2020, photo by Amy Cheng / NPR
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2018
​​Ground Floor 2018 Biennial
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(l) still from single-channel video with split screen "Mom and I" by artist Kat Liu, and (r) hand-painted gravel sculptural work "…writing his dream inside a rectangle" by artist Ashley M. Freeby, as part of Ground Floor Biennial, Fall 2018 / exhibition coordinator and catalogue editor, Hyde Park Art Center
​Distance Between Words: Conversations about Culture, Language, Family
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(r) artists Ishita Dharap, Kandis Friesen, Ashley M. Freeby, Maryam Taghavi​ at Chicago Art: Expanded, Encouraged, Explored October 25, 2018 (photo by Tran Tran) / co-producer, Hyde Park Art Center
Deborah Boardman: Painter & 
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"Deborah Boardman: Painter &" retrospective Winter 2018/2019 / catalogue editor, Hyde Park Art Center
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2017
emerge: Journal of Arts Administration and Policy
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multilingual digital edition of Department journal in Arts Administration & Policy, April 2017 / guest editor and editor-in-chief, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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2016
Exhibitions at The Sullivan Galleries 2016-2017
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Panels I & II by artist Óscar I. González Díaz at New Work 2016 exhibition / co-curator, Sullivan Galleries
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2015
Brooklyn (the black)
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“A lion is the crouch and the bristle and the roar that my body bulks out into when I am hungry and strong, watching one stranger pitter patter all over my territory—right before I eat him up." / writer, personal stories of identity and experience
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2014-early career
The Places We've Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35
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(l) interview with recording artist Vanessa Mdee, and (r) 400-page anthology of original travel narratives that challenge traditional tourism / developmental editor and publisher
V-Day global movement to end violence against women and girls
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(l) Hard Out Here for a Girl, Brooklyn Museum, artists Toni Blackman, DJ Reborn, Ishle Yi Park, 2006 (r) VOTE Campaign rally at Apollo Theater in Harlem, artists Isabella Rossellini and Marisa Tomei, 2004 / production team
Cross-Cultural Dialogues Through the Arts
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(l) EarSay Youth Voices: A Cross-Cultural Arts Project (r) founder and artist Judith Sloan / project assistant, 2003 and 2005
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Ongoing.
Arts Ecologies, Arts Organizations
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site visit to 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo 2016 / research for curatorial project
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presentation and public discussion with Bisi Silva, founder of Center for Contemporary Art Lagos 2017 / producer and co-sponsor
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at artist Işıl Eğrikavuk's class at Universität der Künste Berlin 2019, visiting a final project and exhibition on the theme of Friendship / visitor
Leadership Models
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BMW Foundation Transatlantic Core Group and Responsible Leaders Network / invited fellow
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Dyett High School for the Arts 2018 / guest for arts and leadership workshop series
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