Updated – October 30, 2023
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events:
Group Exhibition: All of the clocks have been wrong for years, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX. November 11 – December 9, 2023. Opening: November 11, 6–9pm.
Current Exhibitions and Events:
Fellowship: 2023-2024 St. Elmo Arts Fellow, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin. September 2023 – April 2024.
Recent/Past News, Exhibitions and Events:
Lecture: 2023-2024 St. Elmo Arts Fellow Lecture, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin. October 26, 2023.
Group Exhibition: Rest is Power, Center for Black Visual Culture, New York University, New York. September 7 – October 22, 2023.
Group Exhibition: Shaping Color, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, California. August 12 – September 16, 2023.
Collaboration: In Practice: Salim Green, SculptureCenter, New York, NY. June 30–Aug 7, 2023. DFT Website
Open Studios: UCLA Department of Art Graduate Open Studios, Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, Saturday, June 3, 2023, 5–8pm.
Group Exhibition: 2023 UCLA MFA Exhibition, Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA. May 22–27, 2023.
Group Exhibition: 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition #4, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. May 4–12, 2023.
Open Studios: UCLA Department of Art Graduate Open Studios, Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, Friday, February 17, 2023, 6–9pm.
Group Exhibition: Profound Edges, PSLA, Los Angeles, CA. December 3, 2022–January 3, 2023.
Group Exhibition: Home/Work, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA. November 19–March 5, 2023.
Group Presentation: InLight 2022, 1708 Gallery, (Bryan Park) Richmond, VA. November 18–19, 2022.
Benefit / Exhibition: Shandaken Projects 10th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, Shandaken Projects, Building 9, Governors Island, New York, New York. November 17 – December 14, 2023.
Press: Wiseblood, Caleb. SLOMA holds new group exhibit Home/Work, New Times San Luis Obispo. November 10, 2022.
Group Exhibition: 2023 MFA Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. October 27–November 10, 2022.
Press: Mentors At The School of Visual Arts, Museé Magazine. March 18, 2022.
Press: Ferguson, Maeri. Photographer Zalika Azim and BFA Photo Student Ashley McLean Discuss Their ‘Mentors’ Show Pairing, SVA. March 17, 2022.
Group Exhibition: Shifting Perspectives: Landscape Photographs from the Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 18–July 3, 2022.
Press: New Exhibition Explores Ways in which Photography Can Transform Our Understanding of the Landscape, Milwaukee Art Museum Blog. March 16, 2022.
Press: Remenchik, Jennifer. UCLA’s Graduate Open Studios Buzzed With Dreams, Hyperallergic. December 10, 2021.
Nominee: Next Step Award, Aperture Foundation | Baxter St CCNY. December 2021.
Group Exhibition: Social Works, Gagosian, New York, NY. June 24 – August 13, 2021.
Press: Delistraty, Cody. At Gagosian, Art That Does “More Than Just Quietly Sit on a Wall” WSJ Magazine (PDF). May 28, 2021.
Fellowship: Pratt>FORWARD, Virtual, March 25 – April 22 , 2021.
Fair: Treacherous with Old Magic, Future Fair, Virtual Exhibition. November 27 – December 18, 2020.
Panel Discussion: Reflecting on the Moments: Photography and Social Protests, COVID19 and #Blacklivesmatter, New York University, Virtual, October 21, 2020, 4:00pm.
Press: Russell, Emma. Artists Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. & Zalika Azim on exploring time, space and the Black body, i-D Magazine. September 9, 2020.
Residency: Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC. September 8–December 8, 2020.
Group Exhibition: 100 Years | 100 Women, Park Avenue Armory (As part of Park Armory’s annual “Culture in a Changing America” series: Interrogations of Form), Virtual Exhibition. August 19, 2020 –
Press: New Commissions by 100 Women Marking Centennial of 19th Amendment Debut Online, ARTFIX daily.com. August 4, 2020.
Press: Space Exploration, Daily Nutmeg (New Haven). July 14, 2020.
Press: Artist Statements: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Life in America, VOGUE.com. June 30, 2020.
Press: Jennings, Phin. Clicks and Mortar: Online Exhibitions to see in July, Riseart.com. June 23, 2020.
Press: Black-Owned Galleries to Support across the United States, Artsy.com. June 20, 2020.
Virtual Panel Discussion: How Did You Get This?: The Spaces We Inhabit, Welancora Gallery, Online, May 1, 2020, 2:00pm.
Exhibition Catalogue: How Did You Get This?: The Spaces We Inhabit, Welancora Gallery. 2020.
Group Exhibition: How Did You Get This?: The Spaces We Inhabit, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. March 14 – September 13, 2020.
Press: Slattery, Brian. NXTHVN Breaks Down The Myths. New Haven Independent. March 11, 2020.
Panel Discussion: Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art, Fred Lazarus IV Center, Auditorium 131, W North Ave, Baltimore, MD. March 9, 2020, 6:00pm.
Curated Exhibition Catalogue: Unsettling the Archive and the Fullness Thereof. Countermythologies. New Haven: NXTHVN. 2020.
Curated Exhibition: Countermythologies, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT. March 7 – July 19, 2020.
Panel Discussion: 100 Years | 100 Women: Women Creating Nouns, Not Adjectives, As part of the Armory’s annual “Culture in a Changing America” series: Interrogations of Form. Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY. February 15, 2020, 4:30pm.
Press: White, Simone. Reviews: ‘In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity.’ Artforum. Print. February 2020.
Press: Rozman, Daneal. Review: Culture, Black History Month: Zalika Azim. MUSEE Magazine. February 2020.
Group Exhibition: Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. January 30 – March 15, 2020.
Moderator: Artist Talk w/ Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Esteban Ramón Pérez, In celebration of the exhibition Contextual Proportions curated by Kenturah Davis. Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY. January 25, 2020, 6:30pm.
Curated Exhibition Catalogue: NXTHVN 01, New York: Tilton Gallery & NXTHVN. 2020.
Group Exhibition: MFON: In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. October 4, 2019 – March 1, 2020.
Residency: Shandaken Residency, Shandaken Projects, Governors Island, NY. September 2019 – August 2020.
Group Exhibition: At Sea, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY. September 29 – December 8, 2019.
Panel Discussion: TO BE AFRICAN IN AMERICA, The New York Theater Workshop, New York, NY. September 14, 2019.
Group Exhibition: New Works from the DPI Faculty and Alumni, NYU Tisch School of The Arts, New York, NY. July 10, 2019 - January 3, 2020.
Fellowship: NXTHVN Curatorial Fellowship, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT. January – February 2020.
Essay: Willis, Deborah. Encounters with Color Photography. Studies in Theory and History of Photography. Print. 2019.
Residency: Workspace Residency, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY. June – August 2019.
Press: Jessica Lynne on Zalika Azim’s ‘in case you should forget to sweep before sunset’. Baxterst.org. May 2019.
Panel Discussion: Contemporary Reflections on the Group, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY. June 4, 2019, 6:30pm.
Solo Exhibition: Totems, +/- Project Space, SOHO20, New York, NY. May 24 – June 23, 2019.
Moderator: Art, Community, Justice & Healing: An evening with Aja Monet, phillip agnew and Samora Pinderhughes, Kimmel Center-NYU, New York, NY. April 23, 2019, 6:00pm.
Interview: Zalika Azim: in case you should forget to sweep before sunset, Baxterst.org. April 2019.
Feature: Zalika Azim: What is Photography, bhphotovideo.com. April 2019.
Press: Hatfield, Zack, Zalika Azim on memory, migration, and totemic gestures, Artforum.com. April 2019.
Coffee Talk: in case you should forget to sweep before sunset, Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. April 6, 2019, 4:30pm.
Conversation: Deborah Willis, Ph.D. and Zalika Azim, Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. March 27th, 2019, 7:00pm.
Coffee Talk: in case you should forget to sweep before sunset, Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. March 21, 2019, 11:00am.
Coffee Talk: in case you should forget to sweep before sunset, Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. March 16, 2019, 11:00am.
Solo Exhibition: in case you should forget to sweep before sunset, Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. March 6 – April 13, 2019.
Group Exhibition: No Commission Miami, Faena Forum, Miami, FL. December 6-8, 2018.
Commission: The Black Lunch Table (BLT), Magnum Foundation, New York, NY. October 27, 2018, 1:00 – 4:00pm.
Residency: Workspace Residency, Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY. July – September 2018.
Curated: To Break the Ocean, AC Institute, New York, NY. April 11 – May 9, 2018.
Writing: Tracing Existence, Studio Magazine. Fall/Winter 2017 – 2018.
Group Exhibition: RE:9, Pfizer, Brooklyn, NY. March 18 – April 15, 2017.
Writing: Collection Visit: Marilyn Nance, Studio Magazine. Winter/Spring 2017.
Writing: A Milestone for Postcolonial Thought: Examining Art and Race in Florence and Venice, Moma.org. August 2015.
Fellowship: 12-Month Friends of Education Curatorial Fellowship, Photography Department, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. 2014 – 2015.
Interview: Memories Unspoken, Timelightbox.com. August 2014.
Group Exhibition: Memories Unspoken (BFA Senior Thesis), Tisch School of The Art, New York University, New York, NY. March 27 – April 28, 2014.