Left to right: Joiri Minaya photo by Diana Lopez, Ashleigh Deosaran, Eileen Jeng Lynch photo by Kevin Li.
In the final week of Geographic Bodies, Joiri Minaya will be joined by academic Ashleigh Deosaran, writer of the exhibition’s catalogue essay, and Eileen Jeng Lynch, Director of Curatorial Programs at the Bronx Museum for a discussion expanding upon Minaya’s practice in both analogue and digital methods of production and the artist’s engagement with the excavation of post-colonial identity.
All of our programming is free and open to the public, with RSVPs requested here. Geographic Bodies is on view from 11am on the day of the program, with select works obstructed from 5:30pm due to the event setup. Doors are at 6pm and the performance will begin no later than 6:30pm. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Ashleigh Deosaran (b.1992, Trinidad and Tobago, she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Northwestern University. Her research centers modern and contemporary Caribbean art through the lenses of critical race theory, queer studies, eco-criticism, and anti-colonialism. After earning a B.A. in Fine Arts & Psychology from Pace University (’16), she completed her M.A. in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies at Columbia University (’19). Recent curatorial projects include Video Caribx, in collaboration with Alice Yard at documenta fifteen, and The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern at the Block Museum of Art where she served as a Curatorial Fellow. She has completed additional graduate fellowships at the Council for Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and earned graduate certification in Gender and Sexuality Studies as a Melon Fellow at Northwestern. She has previously held curatorial positions at Dia Art Foundation and the Public Art Fund in New York City. Her writing can be found in react/review: a responsive journal for art & architecture, Visual Cultures of the Americas, Field Magazine, and Pree Literary Magazine.
Eileen Jeng Lynch is The Bronx Museum’s Director of Curatorial Programs who stewards the Museum’s curatorial initiatives and exhibition schedule with an eye toward expanding its presence in The Bronx and beyond. Jeng Lynch made her curatorial debut with Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, and a continuation of that survey In the Fullness of Time traveled to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Jeng Lynch also organized Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, an exhibition showcasing work by artists who completed The Bronx Museum's flagship AIM Fellowship, a career accelerator program designed to give promising artists the knowledge and skills to sustain a successful practice. Previously, Jeng Lynch was the Senior Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, also in The Bronx, where she organized exhibitions and programs, commissioned artists for site-specific projects, and managed the residency and emerging artists programs. Jeng Lynch has held positions at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and The Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art. She has been a guest curator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, The Yard: City Hall Park, Trestle Gallery, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Workspace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Garis & Hahn, and Radiator Gallery, among others. As the founder of Neumeraki, Jeng Lynch has launched national and global community-based curatorial initiatives. Jeng Lynch received her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from Syracuse University.
Joiri Minaya, born in New York in 1990 and raised in the Dominican Republic, attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales, Santo Domingo in 2009, Altos de Chavón School of Design in 2011, and received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2013. She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Guttenberg Arts; Smack Mellon; the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program; the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists; ISCP; Art Omi; Vermont Studio Center; New Wave; Silver Art Projects; Light Work; and Fountainhead. She has received awards, fellowships and grants from the US LatinX Art Forum; NYSCA / NYF; Jerome Hill; Artadia; the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize; Socrates Sculpture Park; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; and the Nancy Graves Foundation, among others. Minaya’s work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; as well as the Centro León, Santiago, and Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and the Fundación Ama Amoedo Collection in Uruguay.
Image description: Three headshots, left to right – A Dominican woman with long brained hair smiles softly, wearing a blue floral dress and colorful necklace. A woman with light brown skin and short hair smiles, wearing a sleeveless yellow top. An Asian woman with hair pulled back smiles at the camera.