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Curatorial Note
The planning, research, and conceptual framework for Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies are representative of a collaborative effort between all members of the curatorial team. The curatorial work for the exhibition took place during a curatorial tutorial taught at the Gallatin School by Patricia Eunji Kim in Spring 2022.
Credits
Artists: Farah Al Qasimi, micha cárdenas, Beatriz Cortez, Tessa Grundon, Joiri Minaya, Ada M. Patterson, Alexis Rider, and Himali Singh Soin
Curatorial Team: Anastasia Amrhein, Claudia Azalde, Cheyenne Bryant, Jasmine Buckley, Patricia Eunji Kim, Kaleah Mchawi, and Ally Swanson
Gallatin Galleries Production Team: Chase Adams, Nina Osoria Ahmadi, Jennifer Birge, Cheyenne Bryant, Jasmine Buckley, Traci Clapper, Glen Einbinder, Lewis Fender, Chloe Himmelman, Lillian Leopold, Karolina Ochoa-Montes, and Moon Warner
Exhibition Designer: Ian Sullivan
Special Thanks to Susanne Wofford, Linda Wheeler Reiss, Gisela Humphreys, Keith Miller, Sarah Binney, KC Trommer, Rachel Plutzer, Cat Feliciano, Theresa Anderson, Traci Clapper, and Jennifer Birge
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Curator Bios
Anastasia Amrhein, PhD (she/her) is an art historian, curator, and educator whose work focuses on ancient West Asian material culture and its reception. She is particularly interested in questions of materiality, divinity, gender and sexuality, and human relations with the (super)natural world. Dr. Amrhein has worked on curatorial projects at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Penn Museum, and NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, where she co-curated the exhibition A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate and co-edited the eponymous catalogue and collection of essays. She is currently guest-curating an exhibition on queenship, ancient and modern, at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Most recently, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.
Claudia Azalde (she/her) is a NYU Gallatin graduate based in New York. She is an artist, designer and spatial practitioner. She was chosen as a 2022 fellow for Gallatin’s Fellowship in Urban Practice, and will be spending the summer conducting research in Madrid. Currently, Claudia is continuing her exploration in the fields of biomaterials and multi-species worlding.
Cheyenne Bryant (she/her) is a NYU Gallatin graduate based in Atlanta, GA. She is a historian, artist, and aspiring cultural anthropologist whose work considers human encounters with memory, art, and materiality. She served as a curator for the Gallatin Arts Festival for two consecutive years. She also co-curated Transformation!, a Gallatin Galleries exhibition centered around Black theater and music. Currently, Cheyenne is studying the graveyards and burial practices of Southern Black communities.
Jasmine Buckley (she/her) is an NYU Gallatin graduate based in New York. She is an artist, curator, and designer. She’s curated multiple exhibitions with the Gallatin Galleries, most recently student artist Jesses Mclaughlin’s BA show Every Time I Think of Something I Sneeze. She also co-curated Transformation!,
a Gallatin Galleries exhibition centered around Black theater and music. Currently, Jasmine studies how museum and gallery spaces interact with Black communities and artists.
Patricia Eunji Kim, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor at New York University and Senior Editor and Curator-at-Large at Monument Lab. Dr. Kim is currently writing the first book-length study on the visual and material culture of Hellenistic queenship from the fourth to second centuries B.C.E.—a corpus of materials central to a show that she is guest-curating at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She is also co-editor of Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (2020), The National Monument Audit (2021), and Shaping the Past (forthcoming).
Kaleah Mchawi (she/her) is a NYU graduate based in New York. She runs operations for In The Blk (@inthe_blk), a fashion non-profit co-founded by Victor Glemaud, Abrima Erwiah, and Virgil Abloh that is dedicated to creating and expanding spaces for Black individuals in the global fashion industry. Currently, Kaleah is studying the intersection of creativity and business in fashion.
Ally Swanson (they/them) is a NYU graduate based in Brooklyn. They are an artist, activist, and aspiring doula. They collaborated on The Gallatin Review’s Prison Education Project, and their work is published in Gallatin’s online publication, Confluence.