Select Curated Exhibitions
MS User, 2023
820 Galley
MS User, a solo exhibition by Anisha Baid, reflects on digital culture, gender, and technocapitalism, as seen through her lens from the global south. Across video, installation, and performance, Baid investigates themes of loneliness, isolation, and the feminization of labor, while simultaneously subverting these ideas through appropriation and comedy. In doing so, she uses humor as a tool against corporate capitalism, and challenges the power structures we exist within by providing new and irreverent perspectives on contemporary workplace cultures as they continue to be transformed by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
With MS User, Baid presents the self as a defiant user; from the first model user who was conceived to be a female secretary, to considering the computer as an essentially solitary space for behavioral engineering. In doing so, this exhibition pokes at the flat-scapes of the computer screen to decode desk labor through the interface – a technological tool that has converted most spaces of work into image space.
Does it Rain Diamonds on Neptune? 2022
38a Gallery
A solo exhibition by Steve Alexis that aims to challenge perceptions around what abstract work can function as. Through this selection of works, Alexis encourages the audience to look past the superficial, and consider a space that exists in-between painting and sculpture without attempting to resolve or make sense of what's being viewed.
images via Sean Caroll
Radical Black Joy, 2021
SaveArtSpace
A public art project highlighting artists who’s work reflects the concept of radical Black joy.
images via SaveArtSpace
Public Relations, 2021
Harlan Gallery At Seton Hill
An exploration of urban and post-industrial landscapes through 3 artists varying identities, both regional and beyond.
As Clear As Mud, 2021
Swivel Gallery
The first solo exhibition of NYC-based artist Emmanuel Massillon, and a visceral exploration of rebellion against oppression that seeks to reconcile the notion of Blackness in a European-dominated society.
Roots Run Deep: A Contemporary Survey of African American Hair Culture, 2021
Brewhouse Gallery
Featuring the work of 16 Black artists, stylists, and cultural producers, this exhibition seeks to connect the past to the present, and frame Black artists as their own storytellers.
Photos by sarah huny young
We Out Here, 2022
co-curated with “jstn clmn”
Denison Art Space at Denison University
A group exhibition about the celebration of Black culture, history, and the dynamics of 21st-century Black identity; representation, visibility on one’s own terms, and the agency to do so — the underlying sentiment in the phrase, “We Out Here.”
Abstractions, 2019
Gallery One Collective Works
A 4 person survey of Pittsburgh-based woman-identifying artists creating abstract works.
Colorism: Looking Outside the Brown Paper Bag, 2019
Phosphor Project Space
A solo presentation of works by Ashley A. Jones that explore the social meanings attached to skin color, and the rejection/acceptance spectrum that has become a tool for discrimination.
Contemporaneous, 2018
Alphabet City
A group survey of sculptural works communicating themes of identity, language, and scale.
Photo by Christopher Sprowls
Women, According to The Internet, 2017
Bunker Projects
An exploration of feminism in the age of social media. Collectively, the artists create a story about how women are viewed in an era of exhibitionism, how we view ourselves, and how computer mediated tools have revitalized many traditional ideals of feminism.