CURATORIAL
Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), May 06 - August 23, 2026.
Maren Hassinger: Living, Moving, Growing (curated by Margot Norton and Anthony Graham with Omar Jason Farah), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), June 06 - November 29, 2026.
dearmuthafuckindreams, Essex Hemphill, Char Jeré , Wayson Jones, Malcolm Peacock, Collin Riggins, Marlon Riggs, Colin Robinson, Jaguar Mary X, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2025.
Dueñas de la Noche (co-curated with Lucas Ondak, Clara Prat-Gay, Andrew Suggs, Micaela Vindman,
and Clara von Turkovich), Institute for Studies in Latin American Art (ISLAA), Tribeca, NY, 2024.
WRITING / PUBLICATIONS
dearmuthafuckindreams, a zine published by Du-Good Press (Brooklyn, NY), 2025
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.
Omar Jason Farah (b. 2000 and they/them) is a curator and scholar with a focus on black queer independent film.
They are Curatorial Assistant at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and live in Oakland, CA.
Prior, they held curatorial roles at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. They received a MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BA from Princeton University. They recently founded BLACKOUT, a nomadic microcinema and research center focused on black queer independent film.
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(slideshow pictures from the opening of dearmuthafuckindreams, shot by Collin Riggins)