INDEPENDENT CURATORIAL, PROFESSIONAL INVITATIONS AND JURIES
Here, There and the Multitudes In Between: Contemporary Arab Artists in D.C. // IA&A at Hillyer, 2025 TBD (curator)
Perfume in Exile // Friends Art Space, January 2025 (co-curator)
National Juried Show // Delaplaine Arts Center, May 2024 (juror)
Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center // Selection panelist, 2023 solo exhibitions, October 2022
More Than Your Eyes Can See: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World // Middle East Institute Arts & Culture Center in partnership with Tribe Magazine, May 2022 (curator)
Tephra Fine Arts Festival // Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, May 2022 (juror)
The Archive of Memory/Home // The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University, May 2021 (curator)
Art in Isolation: Creativity During the Time of COVID-19 |// Middle East Institute Arts & Culture Center, October 2020 (curator)
Charmed I’m Sure // Adah Rose Gallery, June 2019 (curator)
The Doors of Make Room Foundation: Public Art Exhibition // Washington, DC, September 2018 (juror)
Through Their Eyes: Moments Photographed by Syrian Children for The US Fund for UNICEF // WhiteRoom DC, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Hoerle-Guggenheim Gallery NYC, 2016-2017 (curator)
Gardens Speak by Tania El Khoury // Middle East Institute Arts & Culture Program with The British Council | National Building Museum, April 2016 (producer)
Small Works Exhibition // Hillyer Art Space, November 2016 (juror)
PMDC: Extroception // Art All Night DC at Hillyer Art Space, September 2015 (curator)
FotoWeekDC // Suburban c/o Adah Rose Gallery, November 2013
Peter Karp: Unrealities // Studio Gallery, March 2012
NuitBlanche: Art All Night DC // Historic Wonderbread Factory, November, 2011
Peter Karp: Mostly Grey // Studio Gallery, March 2011
The Breadth and Beauty of Photography // FotoWeekDC at Studio Gallery, November 2010
SELECT INSTITUTIONAL CURATORIAL AND EXHIBITION MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
Contemporary Echoes: Rediscovering Italian Art from 1950-1980 Artworks from the BFF Collection // International Arts & Artists, February - April 2024 (exhibition manager)
Perfumery Museum featuring Almaha Al-Mahmoud // Qatar America Institute for Culture, September - December 2023
2023 IMPART Artists Grant Exhibition featuring Salma Hassaan, Randa F. Malkawi, and Farjana Salahuddin // Qatar America Institute for Culture, May - August 2023
VCUarts Qatar, Research Labs // Qatar America Institute for Culture, February - July 2023
Pearls of Wonder: a digital era // Qatar Museums, Years of Culture Initiative and Qatar America Institute for Culture, June - December 2023
2022 IMPART Artists Grant Exhibition featuring Hoesy Corona, Nura Dhar, and Roger Mokbel // Qatar America Institute for Culture, May - August 2023
FOCI 2022: Water // Qatar America Institute for Culture, September - October 2022
Art Museum of the America’s Cultural Encounters: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & The Caribbean, 1945 - Present (traveling exhibition manager)
Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes // Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, April 2017 - January 2018 (curatorial assistant/exhibition manager)
Lowe Art Museum’s Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States // September 2015 - January 2018 (traveling exhibition manager)
Chicago History Museum’s Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair // October 2014 - January 2018 (traveling exhibition manager)
IA&A’s Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World // January 2014 - September 2015 (curatorial assistant/traveling exhibition manager)
TALKS, INTERVIEWS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS + WORKSHOPS
12 DEC 2024 | Understanding the Art World, Iranian American Community Center/Pars Place
9 SEPT 2024 | Frederick County Arts Association, Delaplaine Arts Center
4 MAY 2024 | Art Matters Artist Talk: National Juried Exhibition with Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Delaplaine Arts Center
2 JUN 2023 | Art Talk with Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Qatar America Institute for Culture
14 NOV 2022 | Art Talk with Rula Halawani, Middle East Institute
3 JUNE 2022 | More Than Your Eyes Can See Art Talk, Middle East Institute
Curator’s Walkthrough: More Than Your Eyes Can See, Middle East Institute
8 MAY 2021 | Memory, Storytelling and Power, Verge Festival, Georgetown University
1 APR 2021 | Panel Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month, Montgomery College, Maryland
5 MAR 2021 | “Art in Isolation” with Laila Jadallah, Art For Our Lives Podcast
12 NOV 2020 | Art and the Pandemic: The Impact on the Visual Arts in MENA, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.
22 OCT 2020 | Decoding Ancestries: Culture & Lineage, Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.
28 MAY 2020 | Virtual Pecha Kucha, ArtTable, Inc, Worldwide
5 OCT 2019 | State of Art 5/DC: A Conversation, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
1 APR 2017 | Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
19 NOV 2016 | Digital Pinhole Workshop, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
17 NOV 2016 | How Photography Influences Cross-Cultural Understanding, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
3 FEB 2016 | Arts in Response to Conflict Round Table, Middle East Institute and College Arts Association, College Arts Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
17 MAR 2015 | SPEOS Photographic Institute Paris, France
6 OCT 2014 | DC Palestinian Arts & Film Festival, Washington, DC
20 AUG 2014 | Arts Council of Fairfax County, Cultural Diversity Workshop, VA
JUL 2014 | Al Hurrah TV
20 JAN 2014 | The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Washington, DC