About the Curators

TIAB 2023 curatorial team. Left to right: Katherine Adams, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Bianca Abdi-Boragi

Katherine C. M. Adams is a writer and curator based in New York. Her research engages with artistic practices that operate along infrastructural and territorial limits. Her articles and art criticism have been published in e-flux Journal, Afterimage, e-flux Criticism, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and BOMB Magazine, among others, and she was the First Prize recipient of the 2022 International Awards for Art Criticism. Recent curated exhibitions and programs include projects at the Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and Miriam Gallery (New York). She is currently the Assistant Curator at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she works on commissions across time-based visual arts and performance, curates public programs, and produces discursive projects that engage critical perspectives on contemporary art and its technological conditions.

Bianca Abdi-Boragi is an Algerian/French/American interdisciplinary artist/curator who received her MFA from Yale School of Art. She was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was in residency at Pioneer Works, NARS Foundation, MASS MoCA's studios, the Centquatre, Pact Zullverein, and Cal'Arts.

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is a Guyanese/Swedish writer, researcher, and curator interested in feminism, social practice, and decolonization. She is also the founding editor-in-chief of Cultbytes. Anna Mikaela holds dual master’s degrees in art and design history from Stockholm University and Bard Graduate Center. Her latest books are “Assuming Asymmetries. Conversations on Curating Public Art Projects in the 1980s and 1990s” and “Curating Beyond the Mainstream” published by Sternberg Press in 2022. She is the Associate Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.