For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Umber Majeed will be joined by curator Jody Graf. Majeed will present a performative lecture on her ongoing Trans-Pakistan project. She will then speak with Graf about how her work engages with speculative fiction, technological nostalgia, South Asian digital kitsch and collective memory. They will also discuss her creative process and use of drawings, ceramics, and interactive augmented reality. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation draw from archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. Majeed has presented her work in solo exhibitions at Queens Museum, New York; Pioneer Works, New York; 1708 Gallery, Virginia; and the Rubber Factory, New York. Majeed is a recipient of numerous fellowships including the HWP Fellowship, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon; Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany; Digital Earth Fellowship, The Netherlands; Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, New York; Queens Museum – Jerome Fellowship. She is currently a Y12 NEW INC member – Extended Realities Track and the 2025 recipient of ISCP’s Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency.

Jody Graf is an Associate Curator at MoMA PS1, where she recently organized the exhibitions Inuuteq Storch: Soon Will Summer Be Over (2025), Jasmine Gregory: Who Wants to Die for Glamour (2024), Hard Ground (2024), Yto Barrada: Le Grand Soir (with Ruba Katrib, 2024), Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish (2023), and Life Between Buildings (2022). She is part of the curatorial team for the upcoming Greater New York 2026, and has worked on projects including Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (2023); Greater New York 2021; Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life (2021); Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020); Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011 (2019); and Sue Coe: Graphic Resistance (2018), among others. Graf has edited multiple exhibition catalogues at MoMA PS1, and her writing has been featured in publications including Texte Zur Kunst, Frieze, Mousse, CURA, and MAY.

This program is supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joe Sultan; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; New York State Senator Julia Salazar; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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