Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen combines film installations, photographic collages, and drawing-based prints to research socialist utopias, incomplete decolonizations, shifting borders, and shattered families. Starting from South Asia after 1947 (partition of British India) and 1971 (separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan), his projects ripple out to an airport as stage for Maoist mutinies, a graduate student searching for revolution in Bangladesh, and labor migrants who became conscripts to Arab liberation. Conversations around “nonalignment” in contemporary art transformed after the premiere of his film Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017) at Documenta 14, which was a finalist for Britain’s Turner Prize. Projects are in collections of Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), MACBA (Barcelona), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Kiran Nadar Museum (Delhi), British Museum, Sharjah Art Foundation, National Gallery of Singapore, Kunsthaus Zurich, and Art Institute of Chicago. He is Chair of the Visual Arts Department, School of the Arts, Columbia University.