The Guyana Project
Grace Aneiza Ali was born and raised in Guyana, South America—a homeland she cares for deeply. Her work portfolio includes several ongoing projects dedicated to promoting the artistic and cultural production of Guyana and its diaspora.
Talks | Lectures
“A Portrait of Migration in the Guyana Photographic Archive” Photography and Migration, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. April 23-25, 2015
“A Conversation on Photography in Ethiopia and Guyana,” Independent Curators International, New York City, New York. April 28, 2015.
“Framing Black/Brown Bodies,” Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-staging Histories, New York University, Florence, Italy. May 28-31, 2015.
“Guyana Family Photographs,” Contemporary Caribbean Visual Culture: Artistic Visions of Global Citizenship, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. June 12, 2014.
“Guyana Modern,” Curating Now: A Public Symposium, Independent Curator’s International, New York, New York. September 30, 2014.
“A Worldview from Guyana,” Visually Speaking, New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center, New York. April 24, 2014.
Writing: Contemporary Art and Photography
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Exhibitions
Un | Fixed Homeland
Aljira: The Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
Curator: Grace Aneiza Ali
2016 (upcoming)
Un | Fixed Homeland will feature photographers from Guyana AND its three largest diasporic cities: New York City, London, and Toronto who engage and trouble the idea of Guyana as a ‘fixed/unfixed homeland,’ an evolving diaspora, and the dynamic relationship between the two.
Addis Foto Fest
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Guest Curator: Grace Aneiza Ali
December 2014
In 2014, for the first time, the Addis Foto Fest featured a Collection from four photographers of Guyanese heritage: Keisha Scarville, Roshini Kempadoo, Sandra Brewster, and Nikki Kahn. Grace Aneiza Ali served as a guest curator and curated the Guyanese Collection.
Film
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“A Story of A Guyanese Family” — A Short Film by filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris via the Digital Diaspora Project that explores migration, family archives, and the photographic image as social memory. Spring, 2012. [photos]
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“Visually Speaking: A Worldview from Guyana” — New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center. Award-winning photographers Nikki Kahn and Keisha Scarville discuss their artistic visions and portfolios and explore their ongoing work to tell Guyana’s stories and to counter historic and contemporary stereotypes about the country. Hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali. (April 24, 2014)
Press
The New York Times
The Guyana Times
New York Daily News
Small Axe Journal