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Shamim Momin is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. In this role since 2018, she has overseen the Curatorial Department and organized numerous exhibitions, including the museum-wide group exhibition In Plain Sight, as well as major commissions by Tala Madani, Gary Simmons, Kelly Akashi, Donna Huanca, Diana Al-Hadid, and others. Prior to joining the Henry, she was director, curator, and co-founder of LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), a nonprofit public art organization committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects. In that role, Momin organized over 100 exhibitions, projects, and programs with more than 300 artists, presented across the United States and internationally. Previously, Momin served for more than ten years at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) co-curating the 2004 and 2008 Whitney Biennials and overseeing the Contemporary Projects series. In addition to her extensive publication history, she serves regularly as guest lecturer, panelist, and advisor for a wide array of organizations and events. Momin was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art for Williams College for the 2007 and 2008 Semester in New York program, and is currently Affiliate Professor of Art at the School of Art, Art History and Design, University of Washington.She and Zuckerman discuss life transformations, never not thinking about something, founder's fatigue, regret, being useful, learning to listen, accepting the world, personal responsibility, purpose driven work, humanity, being a mom, mentorship, what the next generation sees, and art as a means to be human!
A note about the work “Archival” from Patrycja Humienik for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Summer 2024 issue: I wrote this poem (part of my forthcoming book, We Contain Landscapes), in response to Diana Al-Hadid's exhibit “Archive of Longings” at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA in 2021. I was invited to create a workshop in conversation with the work, for which I led participants in movement and writing experiments engaging page and body as archive. Al-Hadid wrote, in the label for one of her sculptures, “I wondered how much of myself I could lose and still be there.” I remain riveted by the question.
Highlights of artists speaking about music including Chris Martin. Tracy Thomason, Ellen Berkenblit, Diana Al-Hadid and Geoff McFetridge. From Zepplin to Drake to Miles Davis, an eclectic sampling of the music artists talk about on the podcast.
Diana Al-Hadid is an artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and immigrated to Ohio when she was five. In 2003, she received a BA in Art History and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio. In 2007, she received an MFA in sculpture fromVirginia Commonwealth University. She Also attended Skowhegan before setting up shop in her studio in East Williamsburg. Diana is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, amongst many others. Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, the NYUAD Gallery in Abu Dhabi, OHWOW Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Hammer Museum just to name a few. She’s received the The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and she’s a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and a a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture. Brian stopped by Diana’s studio in Brooklyn, where he used to have a studio in the same building for years to catch up and talk about art, music and life.
A look back at highlights and lowlights of 2016. Hind Mezaina and Wael Hattar share their personal highlights as artists. They pause to discuss the passing away of Hassan Sharif and go on to list their favourite exhibitions/talks: 1. The Road by Tammam Azzam at Ayyam Gallery http://www.ayyamgallery.com/exhibitions/tammam-azzam_3 2. Reza Aramish at Leila Heller Gallery http://www.leilahellergallery.com/exhibitions/reza-aramesh 3. Cristiana De Marchi at SIKKA 2016 http://www.cristianademarchi.com 4. White Cube...Literally at Gallery IVDE, curated by Amanda Abi Khalil http://www.ivde.net/exhibitions/6/works/ 5. Phantom Limb by Diana Al Hadid at NYUAD Art Gallery http://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/exhibitions/diana-al-hadid/ 6. Invisible Threads at NYUAD Art Gallery http://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/exhibitions/invisible-threads/ 7. Two Suns in a Sunset by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at Sharjah Art Foundation http://www.theculturist.com/home/exhibition-two-suns-in-a-sunset-by-joana-hadjithomas-and-kha.html 8. The Khartoum School at Sharjah Art Foundation http://www.theculturist.com/home/exhibitions-sharjah-art-foundation-winter-20162017.html 9. And I, Will I Forget? by Manal Al Dowayan at Cuadro http://www.cuadroart.com/en/exhibitions/andwilliforget.html 10. When Time Does Not Exist by at Gulf Photo Plus by Randa Mirza, Stephane Lagoutte https://gulfphotoplus.com/gallery/35/When-Time-Does-Not-Exist 11. ICONS by Cortis and Sonderegger at East Wing http://east-wing.org/icons-works-by-cortis-sonderegger-opens-thursday-14-april-7pm-ezp-128.html and Parataxic distortion by Christto & Andrew at East Wing http://east-wing.org/christto-andrew-parataxi-distortioncoming-soon-to-east-wing-ezp-130.html 12. Marketing Presentation for Boxed Branded Plush Toys as Art by Kevin Jones http://www.ibraaz.org/channel/117 You can see Hind Mezaina's complete best of 2016 lists here http://www.theculturist.com/home/tag/best-of-2016
Mark suggested we watched Diana Al-Hadid, a young artist of Syrio-american artist on Art21. Al-Hadid gives a tour of the Venice Biennale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZ9B5L_5vY .I worked on self-publishing my paintings in a book, it's not perfect but it's cute. http://www.blurb.com/b/7656667-kow-and-zibraHappy New Year and Bonne Année 2017
MadHattar's Tea Party, an interview series sub-section of Tea With Culture. While in Art Dubai 2016 Wael Hattar interviews Diana Al-Hadid and talks about her work process for her solo booth at Marianne Boesky and the show exhibiting in NYUAD until May 26, 2016. More information about her show in AbuDhabi can be found here http://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/exhibitions/diana-al-hadid/