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Roula Seikaly

Roula Seikaly is a writer and curator based in Berkeley, and Senior Editor at Humble Arts Foundation. Her work can be found on platforms including Aperture, Photograph, BOMB, and KQED Arts.

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At Bus Stops Around San Francisco, Radiant Photos of the City’s LGBTQ Communities

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

Marcela Pardo Ariza’s thoughtful intervention centers community and chosen family as generational roots within queer communities, one giving life to another.

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Gloriously Defiant Expressions of Cultures Perceived as Threatening to the West

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly February 18, 2020February 14, 2020

At Southern Exposure in San Francisco, South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African artists evoke the challenges they face in celebrating their cultural origins.

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The Longing of the Diaspora in the Digital Era

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly November 15, 2019November 15, 2019

In The Curved Body of a Pixel, artist Kimberly Acebo Arteche posits that despite its speed and pervasive presence, technology ultimately fails to narrow wide experiential gaps created by geographic distance.

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When Students Went on Strike to Overturn a Eurocentric Curriculum

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly October 11, 2019

An exhibition remembers the students’ simple, yet radical, demand in 1968 San Francisco: the right to learn about themselves.

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How Porn Holds Up a Mirror to Society Through the Ages

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly August 21, 2019August 26, 2019

Stag, on view at the Museum of Sex, presents the history of pornographic film going all the way back to the silent era.

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The Relationship Between Landscape and Home for Palestinian Artists

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly August 19, 2019August 22, 2019

Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes marshals seven artists’ passionate interpretations of Palestine.

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Rethinking the Physical Limits of Photography

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly May 27, 2019May 29, 2019

A dual exhibition of works by Jennifer Brandon and Andréanne Michon destabilizes comfortable perceptions of the photographic medium, its physical limits, and relationship to time.

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Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly April 19, 2019April 19, 2019

To Know Herself at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts honors these bars as spaces in which community connections start, and where love grows.

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Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly March 12, 2019March 13, 2019

Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.

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Seven Contemporary Photographers Represent Trans Communities on Their Own Terms

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Monica Westin and Roula Seikaly October 30, 2018October 30, 2018

As the US government tries to delimit trans livelihoods, these photographers are defining transgender and non-binary identities for themselves, assuring their bodies are never erased.

Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch confronts the challenges of being Indigenous and female in the United States and Canada. On view in NYC.

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