Sahar Khoury, Jumana Manna, and Harold Mendez in Conversation

Sahar Khoury was trained as an anthropologist and worked for years on community-based research projects concerning structural vulnerability within Latinx migrant-labor communities. Based in Oakland, California, she developed her practice in the Bay Area’s queer community during late 1990s and early 2000s making works for music shows, theater performances, and street protests. In the Bay Area, Khoury has exhibited work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA, where she was a recipient of the SECA Art Award); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Oakland Museum of California; Wattis Institute; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); and diRosa Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is in the collections of the de Young Museum in San Francisco, BAMPFA, and SFMOMA. Learn more on Sahar Khoury’s website.

Jumana Manna (she/her) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land, and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. She has exhibited at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (M HKA) in Belgium; Mercer Union, Toronto; and SculptureCenter, New York, among others. Manna’s work is held in public and private collections internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MCA Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Carré d’art, Nîmes, France; National Museum of Norway, Oslo; and Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates. Learn more on Jumana Manna’s website.

Harold Mendez has had solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, among others. He also participated in Being: New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York. He has held artist residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Light Work, Syracuse, New York; and Cross Currents Artist Exchange through the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund, Havana, Cuba. Learn more on Harold Mendez’s website.