ZALIKA AZIM is an artist and curator
ANA TUAZON is a writer, curator, and 2019–20
based in Brooklyn, NY. Conceptualizing her practice through photography, installation, performance, sound, and text, she investigates the ways in which memory, migration, movement, and the body are negotiated throughout the African diaspora. Azim’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Dean Collection, the International Center of Photography, Dorsky Gallery, Diego Rivera Gallery, the Instituto Superior de Arte, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia. She has completed solo projects with the Baxter Street Camera Club of New York and SOHO20. Zalika recently served as Imaging and Permanent Collections Associate at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She has assisted on curatorial projects and publications at The Walther Collection, and as the 2014–15 Friends of Education Twelve-Month Intern in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. Azim holds a BFA in Photography and Imaging from the Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University.
resident at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She completed an MA in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University in 2018, where her research centered on the practices of women of color within and outside of feminist art traditions, with a focus on art practice as a form of radical social and political engagement. In addition to Countermythologies, her other curatorial work includes the 2018 Southeast Queens Biennial, co-curated through art nonprofit No Longer Empty’s curatorial lab. She has presented at conferences including the College Art Association and Theorizing the Web, and she has written for publications such as Temporary Art Review, Hyperallergic, and Art Practical.
RIHAM MAJEED is an Arab-American emerging curator based in New York City working in the non-profit sector. She previously held a position as Development Associate at the American Folk Art Museum, and currently works in the development department of the arts education organization ArtsConnection. Riham received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Psychology from Fairfield University, where her research focused on exclusionary art-historical conventions placed upon Black artists of the twentieth century. Her work as curatorial fellow at NXTHVN is her curatorial debut.
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