CURATORIAL
anticulation, with work from Destiny Allen, Aishah Balogun, Nathalie Charles,
Omar Jason Farah, Azi Jones, Petr Karpov, Erin Macanze, Kat Nix, Collin Riggins, and Storm Stokes
at Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, 2022.
AFROBUBBLEGUN, with work from Aishah Balogun, Nathalie Charles, Omar Jason Farah,
Payton Croskey, Raafa Elsheikh, Rahma Elsheikh, Zavier Foster, Khari Franklin, Azi Jones,
Erin Macanze, Nemo, Sabrina Nicacio, Kat Nix, Suniya Nsehti, Ari Riggins, Camryn Stafford, and Storm Stokes
at Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, 2023.
Hold The Applause (co-curated with Jungmin Cho, Matthew Lawson Garrett, Ariana Kalliga, and Sibia Sarangan)
from the Marieluise Hessel Collection including work from Diedrick Brackens, Donna Dennis, Samuel Fosso,
Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Salman Toor, and Kara Walker at the Hessel Museum of Art, 2023.
Dueñas de la Noche (co-curated with Lucas Ondak, Clara Prat-Gay, Andrew Suggs, Micaela Vindman,
and Clara von Turkovich) presenting the U.S debut of the 1982 documentary TRANS from the
archives of the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), at the Hessel Museum of Art, 2023.
ART
ISTUNKA, two-channel video, 2022.
WRITING + RESEARCH
"My Angels Will Be Tall Black Drag Queens" : Introducing a Praxis of Black Queer Scripturalectics,
awarded the Princeton University Religion and Literature Thesis Prize, 2023.
Reconsidering Johannesburg's 1997 Biennale: Post-Nationalist Politics in a Post-Apartheid Era, 2024.
"He is Essentially an Africanist" : The Decade Show's Abandonment of the Afrocentric for the Afrovertical, 2024.
Forthcoming Master's Thesis (Advised by Professor Kobena Mercer)
Transbluesency: Toward a New Black Formalism and a New Black Exhibition, 2025.
Omar Jason Farah (b. 2000) is a Somali-Canadian curator, artist, and scholar based in New York, US.
He is currently a master's candidate at CCS Bard and Curatorial Intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 2023, he completed his undergraduate studies (summa cum laude) at Princeton University focusing his research on black queer
literature and black contemporary art. During his time at Princeton, Farah founded a collective of black student artist with whom he organized several exhibitions. His curatorial practice is dedicated to research-intensive exhibitions and programming that excavate new discourses across black geographies.
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