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Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores how different social, and technological processes colonize the ways that we see the worlds around and within us. Vadera hacks different visual systems, and rewires them to glitch, rupture, and open up parallel ways of seeing.
His work is influenced by decolonial theory, science fiction, and impossible objects.
Vadera’s prints, collages, sculptures, videos, and installations have been exhibited and screened internationally at venues such as: Queens Museum, MoMA, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Asia Society, Aga Khan Museum, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, and the Maraya Art Centre.
In parallel, Vadera has worked as a curator, programmer, and writer on projects that focus on art as a catalyst for cultural change.
Vadera completed his undergraduate education at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. He has lectured at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yale University; Cornell University; Pratt Institute; Indian Institute of Technology; Tufts University; Brooklyn College; and Montclair State University. Vadera is currently the Assistant Professor in Intersectional, Feminist and Decolonial 2D and 4D Image-Making Practices at Concordia University in Montreal.
Jaret Vadera lives and works between New York, Montreal, Toronto, and India. Vadera is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
EDUCATION
MFA, Yale University School of Art, Painting and Printmaking, 2009, New Haven, CT, US
Cooper Union School of Art, Fine Art Mobility Program, 1999, New York, NY, US
Ontario College of Art and Design University, AOCAD in Fine Art, 1999, Toronto, ON, CA
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023
upcoming
12G, Philadelphia, US
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition
Curator: Murtaza Vali
2022 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
Hungry for Time: An Invitation to Epistemic Disobedience
(Curators: RAQS Media Collective)
apexart, New York, NY, US
Kafala: Migrant Labor in the Arabian Peninsula
(Curator: Clark Clark)
2021
Essex Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, US
Eyeshadow
(Curator: Karen Azoulay
Lakereen, Mumbai, MH, IN
THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS: The New Beginning [online]
(Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala)
South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL, US
Diasporic Rhizome [online]
(Curators: Faisal Anwar, Ambika Trasi, and Brendan Fernandes)
Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, ON, CA
Engaging Creativities [online]
(Curators: Tamara Harkness, Sarah Piché, and Alice Ming Wai Jim)
UNTITLED Miami, FL, US The Ties that Bind (Curator: Alaina Simone)
2020
Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
Ascent
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, Montreal, QC, CA
(pre)existing conditions [online]
(Curators: Tamara Harkness, Sarah Piché, and Alice Ming Wai Jim)
Ethnocultural Art Histories Research,
Concordia University, QC, CA
HEAR US NOW! [online]
(Curator: Alice Ming Wai Jim)
Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, Cornell University
Ascent
2019
Queens Museum, New York, US
Queens International: Volumes
(Curators: Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan)
VIDEODROME PARIS at TICK TACK, Antwerpen, BE
The Charon Cycle
(Curator: Prisca Meslier)
Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca NY, US
CAF 2019
2018
Columbia University, New York, US
Unleashing
(Curators: Livia Alexander and Isin Ono)
Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, IN
Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia
(Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala)
Solo Exhibition
Project for Empty Space, Newark, US
where the ocean meets the sky
(Curators: Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol)
Solo Exhibition
Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, US
aliens, dead zones, and beyonders
(Curator: Scott Andresen)
AIFACS Gallery / Raza Foundation, New Delhi, IN
Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia
(Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala)
2017
Asia Society Museum, New York, US
Lucid Dreams, Distant Visions
Curators: Boon Hui Tan, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, and Jaishri Abichandani
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, CA
Here: Locating Canadian Contemporary Artists
Curator: Swapnaa Tamhane
Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, US
Crafted Strangers
Curators: Quizayra Gonzalez and Cass Gardiner
Solo Exhibition
12G, Philadelphia, US
the closer i get, the further i find
Curators: Aisha Z.Khan and Atif F. Sheikh
2016
CTRL+ALT: Imagined Futures
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, New York, US
Curators: Adriel Luis, Lawrence Bui-Davis and Kālewa Correa
Filipino American Museum, New York, US
Dystansia
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, BR
FILE Video Art 2016
Curator:
Fernanda Albuquerque de Almeida
A Space Gallery, Toronto, CA
Bayan
Curator: Vicky Moufawad-Paul
5 Andersen / Residency Unlimited, New Rochelle, US
Beneath Our Feet on and the Surface of Things
Curator: Livia Alexander
2015
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, AE
Accented
Curator: Murtaza Vali
August Fröhls, Mönchengladbach, DE
Object Manipulating Economy / Economy Manipulating Object
Curators: Aman Sandhu & Swapnaa Tamhane
False Alternatives
Gallery Veda / Hyatt, Chennai, IN
Curator: Meenakshi Thirukode
Drexel University, Philadelphia, US
12Gates Video Art Fest
Curators: Ayza Akhtar, Sonali Gulati,
Bakirathi Mani, Sa'dia Rehman, and Atif F. Sheikh
2014
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection
Curators: Lori Salmon and Rachael Morrison
Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, IN
Video Art Series
Curator: Gayatri Sinha / Critical Collective
William Patterson University Gallery, Wayne, US
Doublebind
Curator: Kristen Evangelista
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, US
Know Who You Are At Every Age
Curators: Q_RAIDER and BDGRMMR
Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim, IN Translucent Video Art Festival
Curator: Kanchi Mehta
2013
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Abstract Currents: An Interactive Video Event
Organizers: PopRally
FD ZONE | Films Division of India, Mumbai, IN
100 Years of Experimentation: A Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
Curators: Ashish Avikunthak & Mortimer Chatterjee
WAA, Mumbai, IN
Translucent Video Art Festival
Curator: Kanchi Mehta
The Gateway II, Newark, US
Etiquette For Lucid Dreaming
Curators: Meenakshi Thirukode, Jasmine Wahi, and Rebecca Jampol
2012
Solo Exhibition
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, US
Transparent Studio - Artist-In-Residence
Local Project, New York, US
DysTorpia
Curators: Gabriel Roldós & Arlan Londoño
Outpost, New York, US
DysTorpia
Curators: Gabriel Roldós & Arlan Londoño
2011
EFA Project Space, New York, US
Prolonged Engagements
Curator: Erin Sickler
First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, CA
50 Years of Art: Looking Back at the Future
Curator: Jennifer Rudder
2010
Project 88, Mumbai, IN
Form and Phenomenon
Curator: Heidi Fichtner
Tilton Gallery, New York, US
Else
Curators: Derrick Adams and Jack Tilton
Aicon Gallery, New York, US
Malleable Memory
Curator: Nitin Mukul
Religare Arts, New Delhi, IN
Ballard Estate
Curator: Gitanjali Dang
2009
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, US
Back, Forth and Round About
Curator: Thomas Erben
P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, US
Young Curators, New Ideas II
Curator: Megha Ralapati
Triple Candie, New York, US
Eye World
Curators: Emily Cheng and Michelle Loh
Thomas Erben / Seven Art / Travancore Palace, New Delhi, IN
Moment as Monument
Curators: Thomas Erben and Aparajita Jain
2008
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, US
Exploding the Lotus
Curators: Jaishri Abichandani and Jane Hart
2007
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, US
Emerge 8
Curator: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival, New York, US
Transfixed: Experimental Video Program
Curator: Yamini Nayar
2006
Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
Everything All at Once - Queens International
Curators: Jaishri Abichandani and Herb Tam
2005
Solo Exhibition
Paved Art + New Media, Saskatoon, CA
It’s not an easy thing to meet the maker…
Curator: Timothy Dallett
Solo Exhibition
Department of Canadian Heritage, Toronto, CA
Archive
Curator: Jennifer Rudder
White Box, New York, US
Night Shift
Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
Fatal Love - South Asian American Art Now
Curators: Jaishri Abichandani and Prerana Reddy
2004
South Asian Visual Arts Centre / Gallery 401 / CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, CA
Interscapes
Curators: Farheen HaQ and Cyrus Irani
PH Gallery, New York, US
Re:Construct
Curator: Tomoko Ashikawa
chezTGN, New York, US
Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings
Curator: Trong G. Nguyen
2003
Centre de Diffusion en Art Subversif, Montreal, CA
Archive
A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, CA
Whole
Yeditepe University, Istanbul, TR
International Symposium of Interactive Media Design
2002
Solo Exhibition
Cultural Foundation of Corsica, Ajaccio, FR
Erosion
Curator: Hervé Lalli
Two-Person Show
Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, CA
Light
SOF Art House, Toronto, CA
Stir
2001
Solo Exhibition
A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, CA
Standard
BOOKS AND CATALOGS
where the ocean meets the sky
Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, 2018
Beyond Transnationalism:
The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia, AIFACS Gallery / Raza Foundation, New Delhi, IN, 2018
the closer i get the further i find, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, 2017
Lucid Dreams, Distant Visions, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2017
HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2017
Crafted Strangers, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Asheville, 2017
Dictionary of the Possible, Shifter, New York, 2016
FILE: Video Art, FILE SÃO PAULO, Brazil, 2016
ACCENTED, Maraya Art Centre, 2015
The Gulf – HIGH CULTURE / HARD LABOR, edited by ANDREW ROSS, Or Books, 2015
Doublebind: Art of the South Asian Diaspora, William Patterson University Gallery, 2014
Younger Than Jesus / Artist Directory: The Essential Handbook to a New Generation of Artists, The New Museum, NY. Phaidon Press, 2009, 494.
Eye World, Triple Candie, NY, 2009, 65.
Emerge 8, Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, 2007, 62, 83, 90.
Queens International 2006: Everything All at Once, Queens Biennial Vol. 3, Queens Museum of Art, 2006: 79
Fatal Love – South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, 2006: 15, 59.
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS
“Raqs Media Collective’s recent exhibition in Vienna speaks against hunger for time,” Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Stir World, December 5, 2021
“On Multivalent Imagemaking,” Interview with Samia Henni
Journal of Architecture 12, Cornell Press, 2021
“The art of satire,” Ayesha Majeed, Art & Culture, The International News, April 18, 2021
“COVID-19 and Equity: Rethinking Cities, Pedagogy, and Race,” AAP News, Patti Witten, June 13, 2020
Q&A WITH ARTIST & EDUCATOR JARET VADERA,
Diana McClure, Duggal Art Scene, 20 July 2020
Emergency Mode: Artist Jaret Vadera on Crises and Adaptable Art Practice, AAP News, By Patti Witten, June 13, 2020
“Mapping Technology,” Jennifer L. Wholey Lehman, Cornell AAP News Magazine, Fall 2019
“Beyond Transnationalism,” Amita Kini-Singh, Art Radar, September 2018
“Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai,” Balamohan Shingade, Artlink Magazine, September 2018
Home and Belonging..., Hindustan Times, Riddhi Doshi, April 13, 2018
Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art In The Diaspora, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Diana Seo Hyung Lee, September 2017
Art In The Era of Identity Politics, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Bharti Lalwani, September 2017
HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists, ARTFORUM Magazine, Murtaza Vali, September 2017
Distant Visions and Lucid Dreams, Julian A. Jimarez Howard, Whitehot Magazine, July 2017
Bringing the hyphen to the nation, The Globe and Mail, Kate Taylor, July 28, 2017
Lucid Dreams: Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Karen Pennar, Voices of NY, June 27, 2017
Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions, Art Review, The New Yorker, July 24, 2017
Another take on Canada at the Aga Khan Museum, Murray Whyte, Toronto Star, July 30, 2017
Fatal Love: Where Are We Now?, Tausif Noor, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, July 21 2017
What Makes a Canadian Artist?, Leah Sandals, Canadian Art Magazine, July 20, 2017
Strike a Pose, The Globe and Mail, April 12, 2017
The Future is Behind Us: The Work of Jaret Vadera, Diana McClure, Art In America, Nov. 2016
Artist Jaret Vadera On Creativity & Inspiration, Interview with PLASTIC, OBEAHH, June 27, 2016
Interview with Jaret Vadera, Charu Maithani, Proprioception, March 2016
New Poetics of Translation: An Interview with Jaret Vadera, Carla K. Stewart,
Breach Magazine – Issue 1: Decolonial Aesthetics, June 2015
Exhibition Review, Accented, Kareem Estefan, IBRAAZ, July 2015
Decoding Images, Hema Vijay, Deccan Herald,
November 30, 2014
Of Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Ideas, The New Indian Express, October 18, 2014
Art in the Context of Larger Ideas, The New Indian Express, October 20, 2014
Future Greats 2014, Naeem Mohaiemen, ArtReview Asia, Autumn & Winter Issue, 2014
Feeling the Doublebind, Deborah Frizzell, Depart Magazine, Issue 17, 2014
Profile / Interview, Shiba Kurian, Deccan Chronicle, September 8, 2014
Mapping Images, Swapnaa Tamhane, artVarta, Issue 1. 2013: 54-57
Transparent Studio: Interview with Jaret Vadera, Anita Sharma, Bose Archives, January 14, 2012
Blockgame, Zeenat Nagree, Time Out Mumbai, December 10–23, 2010
ELSE at Tilton Gallery, Diana McClure, DaWire, October 18, 2010
Art Review: Else, Holland Cotter, New York Times, September 24, 2010
Public art in Mumbai: Talking Civic Sense, Gitanjali Dang, CNN Go, May 27, 2010
/Younger Than Jesus / Artist Directory, The New Museum, NY. Phaidon Press, 2009
Review: Young Curators, New Ideas II, Kim Levin, ARTnews, October 2009
Young Curators, New Ideas II, Joseph Wolin, Time Out NY, Aug 20-26, 2009
Once In A Blue Moon, Zehra Jumabhoy, Art India - August 2009
Young Curators on the Art of New Ideas, Teri Duerr, NY Art Beat, August 2009
Diaspora Art, Sharmistha Ray, MW Magazine India, August, 2009
Beyond Boundaries, Ekatmata Sharma, The Pioneer, Tuesday August 25, 2009
Azaad Art, Ishita Sharma, Midday, August 17, 2009
Back, Forth and Round About, David Rothenberg, Evil Monito Magazine, March 2009
Art + Culture: Jaret Vadera, Diana McClure, CultureServe.net, September 2008
Queens International, Kate Lowenstein, Time Out New York, January 2007
Fatal Love, Priya Malhotra, Asian Art News Magazine, November / December 2005
In-Between, Splotches - Visual Pulse 014, February 2005
After a Glimpse Over the Top, Delve Magazine - volume 02, issue 06, January 2004
60 Second Interview: Jaret Vadera, Olly Farshi, Defunktion.net, November 2003
Metro Morning, Interview with Natasha Ramsahai, CBC Radio Toronto, July 11, 2003
Journal TV, Interview w/ Marie Francoise Stefani, FR3 Mediteranee, August 2, 2002
Un artist en vogue, Emmanuelle Peretti, CORSE-MATIN, July 27, 2002
Visual Voice, Interview with Christine Hirtescu, CIUT 89.5 fm, July 4, 2002
Rising Sun, Robert McNeil, Dojo Magazine, June 2002
After a Glimpse Over the Top, Wegway Magazine, April 2002
Jaret Vadera, MyBindi.com, February 2002
Media to Medium, Interview with Lydia Workman, CIUT 89.5 fm, December 13, 2001
Artists draw on spiritual side, Andrea Raymond, North York Mirror, June 11, 2001
Artists bring distinct style-, Olga Herrmann, The Scarborough Mirror, Jan 19, 2001
Contemporary Art 2001, Andrea Raymond, Surface and Symbol, December 2000
Contemporary Art 2000, Andrea Raymond, Surface and Symbol, December 1999
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2021
Visual Arts, Explore and Create Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, CA
2019
Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence,
Cornell University, Ithaca US
Cornell Council for the Arts, Arts Grant, Ithaca, US
2018
Artist Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca, US
2017
Alserkal Artists-In-Residence,
Dubai, UAE
2016-17
PES Artist-Researcher in Residence,
Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, US
2014
Artist Research Fellowship, DakshinaChitra, Chennai, IN
2013-14
Keyholder Residency
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, US
2013
The Balcão Residency, Goa, IN
Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Travel Grant, Ottawa, CA
2012
Transparent Studio Residency, Bose Pacia, New York, US
2009
Alice Kimball English Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, US
2006
Emerge 8 Fellowship - Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, US
2002
Toronto Arts Council Artist Grant, Toronto, CA
Kathryn Minard Mixed Media Award, Toronto, CA
2001
Tyndale Award, Toronto, CA
Latcham Gallery Award, Toronto, CA
1999
Aboveground Drawing and Painting Award, OCAD University, Toronto, CA
LECTURES, SYMPOSIUMS, & PANELS
2022
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, PA, US
Asian Futurisms
Artist Talk
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
On Asian Diasporic Futurisms, and Fugitive Manilamen
2021
Artist Talk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US
On Slow Images, and Multivalent Objects
Artist Talk
The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, CA
alien/alien
Field Trip: Jaret Vadera in conversation with Josh Heuman
Artist Talk
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, CA
On Multivalent Storytelling
Public Conversation
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
On Diasporic Aesthetics: Jaret Vadera and Tairone Bastien
Public Conversation
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, US
On the Third Space: Jasmine Wahi, Jaret Vadera, K. Desireé Milwood
Artist Talk
Tufts University, Boston, MA
On Image-Making, and Image-Breaking
Panel Chair
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, US
Art, Techne, and Cultural Change
Panelists: Heather Hart, Cristóbal Martínez, Kamal Sinclair, and Marlon Barrios Solano New Media Caucus
Panelist
College Art Association Conference New York, NY, US
Critical New Media Art Resources
Panelists: Livia Alexander, Rashin Fahandej, Avery Forbes, Darija Medic, and Jaret Vadera
New Media Caucus
2020
Artist Talk
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
Asian American Studies Program Lecture Series
Multi-Positionality and Cultural Production
2020
Artist Talk
Code-Switching and Fugitive Image-Making
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
Artist Talk
Jaret Vadera in Conversation with Atif F. Sheik
12Gates, Philadelphia, PA, US
2019
Public Conversation
The Power Plant / OCAD University, Toronto, ON, CA
What we found after you left
Artists in Conversation Series
Naeem Mohaiemen and Jaret Vadera
Artist Talk
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA on shadows, double negatives, and unreliable narrators
Artist Talk
Aliens, Code-Shifters, and Rude-Mapping
South Asia Program Lecture Series
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
2018 Public Conversation
Anti-Imperialism, Jeepney Moon Dreams, and Tito Deadpan
Conversation with Emmy Catedral
Pilipinx American Library / Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY, US
Artist Talk
where the ocean meets the sky
In conversation with Jasmine Wahi
Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, US
Artist Talk
The Poetics of Entropy
Architecture, Art, and Planning Lecture Series
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
2017
Keynote Panel
DOUBLE DUTY: Agency and Cultrual Production, Asia Society, New York, US
Swati Khurana, Jaret Vadera, Asha Ganpat, Allan deSouza, and Naeem Mohaiemen. Moderator: Anuradha Vikram
Panel – Canadian Artists: Being HERE
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, CA
Babak Golkar, Sukaina Kubba, Dawit L. Petros, Nep Sidhu, and Jaret Vadera
Moderator: Swapnaa Tamhane
Symposium Presenter
Embedded, Embedding: Artist Residencies, Urban Placemaking and Social Practice
Jaret Vadera in
conversation with Gia Hamilton
The New School / Parsons, New York, NY, US
Reading
Speak Out, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY, US
2016
Reading
"I don't need your heroes"
Soapbox Responses, The High Line, New York, NY, US
Panel
Imagined Futures, Nerds of Color Salon, Smithsonian APAC, New York, NY, US
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
BAYAN, A-Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA
2015
Artist Talk
Artist-Research, Visual Culture, The New School / Parsons, New York, NY, US
Co-Presenter with Yamini Nayar
Legibility, Dictionary of the Possible Series
The New School / Shifter Magazine, New York, NY, US (Organizers: Avi Alpert and Rit Premnath)
Reading and Closing Remarks
Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings
Bowery Poetry Club and the Filipino American Museum, New York, NY, US
Lecture and Panelist
Knowledge Maketh a Bloody Entrance:
An Intersection of Visual Art and Literature,
NYU / Fordham University / Filipino American Museum, NY, US
Artist Talk – Art Forum Lecture Series, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
2014
Artist Talk
On Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Spaces
Discussion led by Meenakshi Thirukode and Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, IN
Panel
Flatland: This World / Other Worlds
Sadanand Menon, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Meenakshi Thirukode
U.S. Consulate / Asian College of Journalism / DakshinaChitra Museum, Chennai, IN
Symposium
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
A Community Exchange: The Socially Engaged Artist and the Public Imagination
Rick Lowe, May Joseph, and Jaret Vadera moderated by
Shane Aslan Selzer
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
Perspectives on Art and Resistance
Jaishri Abichandani, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yamini Nayar, Jaret Vadera, and Gary Tartakov
Moderated by Balamurti Natrajan
William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, US
Conversation with Scott Andresen
After Art School
MFA Department, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, US
Co-Organizer
Artist Talks: Will Condry, Victor Davson, Chuck Schultz, and Fausto Sevila
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art / New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US
Co-Organizer
Artist Talks: Jerry Gant, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Shaun Leonardo and Mary Valverde
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art / New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US
Co-Organizer
Artist Talks: Cicely Cottingham, Rafael Sánchez, Fausto Sevila and Victor Davson
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art / New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US
Exhibition / Course-Related Talks
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, US
2013
Organizer and Panelist
Experimental Video: 1-1=1
Mariam Ghani, Haig Aivazian, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Naeem Mohaiemen
Alwan Film Festival, New York, NY, US
Panelist
Video Art: Experiments in the Gallery
100 Years of Experimentation: A Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
Munir Kabani, Sahej Rahal, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Ashish Avikunthak
FD ZONE | Films Division of India, Mumbai, MH, IN
2010
Panelist
Malleable Memory
Vandana Jain, Gisela Insuaste, Nitin Mukul, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Margot Bourman
AICON Gallery, New York, NY, US
Artist Talk
Urban Assembly School of Music and Art, Brooklyn, NY, US
2009
Panel Moderator and Organizer
Art, Social Structures, and Cosmopolitan Contexts
Public Discussion with Jaishri Abichandani, Murtaza Vali, and Brendan Fernandes
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, US
Co-Organizer
Artist Talk: Jaishri Abichandani
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, US
2008
Artist Talk
Exploding the Lotus
Yamini Nayar, Vandana Jain, Jaishri Abichandani, and Jaret Vadera
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL, US
2007
Panel Moderator and Organizer
Concepts, Process and Materials - Things Fall Apart
Carmen Alvarado, Suzanne Broughel, Eddie Chu, Pierre Obando, and Ivan Stojakovic
Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, New York, NY, US
2003-7
Exhibition / Course-Related Talks
• 100+ talks to college and high school students, as well as community groups: ParsonsThe New School for Design, Hunter College, Empire State College, Columbia University, School of Visual Arts, Maryland Institute of Art, SoBro
Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, New York, NY, US
Panel Organizer
Concepts, Process and Materials Series
• United Black Girls, Believe, Fragmentation of the Self: Smeared, Smudged, Marked and Drawn, God Complex: Images of Power, More or Less: Generating Meaning through Process, Utopian Conquest: Ideal Domination, Recess: Images & Objects in Formation, and Homemade World: Reconstructed Images in Photography
Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, New York, NY, US
2006
Artist Talk
It’s not an easy thing to meet the maker…Paved Art + New Media, Saskatoon, SK, CA
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2021-Present
Assistant Professor
Intersectional, Feminist, & Decolonial 2D + 4D Practices
Department of Studio Arts
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
• IMCA 610: Graduate Intermedia Studio
• IMCA 310: Intermediate Video Production Class
• PHOT 300: Photographic Vision: Theory and Practice II
2020-21
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Studio Arts
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
2018-2021
Assistant Professor of Practice, New Media
Department of Art
Architecture, Art, and Planning
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
• ART 2701: Art, Culture(s), and Technology
• ART 3799: Hidden in Plain Sight
• ART 3799: Algorithms, Imaging, and Power
• ART 3005: Advanced Practice
2017
Critic
MFA Photography
Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
• ART 827: Art, Ethics, and Critical Race Theory
Visiting Instructor
MFA Integrated Practices
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
• FA 671: Integrated Practice
Visiting Instructor
Art and Design Education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
• ADE 604: Contemporary Issues in Social Practice
Adjunct Faculty
MFA Studio
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
• ARST 503: Independent Studio
2016
Visiting Instructor
Social Science and Cultural Studies
Department
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
• SS-512: Art, Culture, and Community Development
Summer Institute Faculty
Asian American Studies
CUNY BMCC, New York, NY, US
• Cultural Production and Transnational / Diasporic Frameworks
Adjunct Faculty and Guest Critic
Art History
Department and MFA Studio
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
• ARHT 601: Selected Problems in Art History: Contemporary Art & Ideas
• ARHT 590: Modern Philosophies of Art I: Art and Ideas
Lecturer
Fine Arts Department
York College, Queens, NY, US
• FA104: Introduction to Fine Arts
• FA284: Computer Graphics I
Lecturer
Studio Art Department
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, US
• ARTD 2811: Introduction to Digital Art
Panelist
Imagined Futures, Nerds of Color Salon,
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, New York, NY, US
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
BAYAN
A-Space Gallery,Toronto, ON, CA
Guest Lecturer
Artist-Research, Advanced Research Seminar: Visual Culture
The New School, New York, NY, US
Reading
I Don’t Need Your Heros,
Soapbox Responses, High Line Art, New York, US
2015
Co-Presenter
Legibility
Dictionary of the Possible Series
Discussion led by Yamini Nayar and Jaret Vadera
Shifter Magazine, The New School, NY, US
Adjunct Faculty
Art History
Department
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
• ARHT 601.01: Selected Problems in Art History: Contemporary Art & Ideas
• ARHT 601.81: Graduate Independent Study
Lecturer
Studio Art Department
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, US
• ARTD 2811: Introduction to Digital Art
Presenter
Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings
Filipino American Museum and Bowery Poetry Club
Presenter and Panelist
Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance: An Intersection of Visual Art and Literature
Maia Cruz Palileo, Rico J. Reyes, Jaret Vadera and Aldrin Valdez moderated by Edwin Ramoran
Filipino American Museum and Fordam University
Artist Talk + Studio Visits
Art Forum Lecture Series
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
Guest Artist Critic
Final Reviews: Issues of Representation
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON, CA
Visiting Artist Critic
MFA Studio Art Graduate Final Reviews
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, US
Programmer
Derrick Adams: THE HOLDOUT
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, US
Programmer
Michael Paul Britto:
Something In The Way of Things
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, US
2014
Artist Talk and Discussion
On Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Spaces
Research and Discussion Lecture Series
Discussion led by Meenakshi Thirukode and Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, IN
Panelist
Flatland: This World / Other Worlds
Masum Momaya, Sadanand Menon, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Meenakshi Thirukode
Asian College of Journalism, DakshinaChitra Museum, and the U.S. Consulate, Chennai, IN
Visiting Artist Critic
Campus Art Dubai 3.0, Dubai, UAE
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion / Symposium
A Community Exchange: The Socially Engaged Artist and the Public Imagination
Rick Lowe, May Joseph, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Shane Aslan Selzer
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
Perspectives on Art and Resistance
Jaishri Abichandani, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yamini Nayar, Jaret Vadera, and Gary Tartakov
Moderated by Balamurti Natrajan
William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, US
Co-Curator
Dream and Reality
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US
Programmer
Windows on Market Projects
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, US
Programmer
I put this moment here...
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, US
2013
Curator / Programmer
Experimental Video / Art Program
1-1=1
Alwan Film Festival, New York, NY, US
Panelist
1-1=1
Mariam Ghani, Haig Aivazian, and Jaret Vadera facilitated by Naeem Mohaiemen
Alwan Film Festival, New York, NY, US
Artist Talk / Q & A
100 Years of Experimentation: A Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
FD ZONE | Films Division of India, Mumbai, IN
2010
Panelist / Artist Talk
Malleable Memory moderated by Margot Bourman, AICON Gallery, New York, US
2009
Co-Curator
Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs
Yale University School of Art Gallery,
New Haven, CT, US
Moderator / Panel Organizer
Art, Social Structures, and Cosmopolitan Contexts
Panelists: Jaishri Abichandani, Murtaza Vali, and Brendan Fernandes
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven,CT, US
Organizer
Artist Talk: Jaishri Abichandani
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US
Teaching Assistant
Silkscreen Printing / Art 355b
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US
2008
Artist Talk
Exploding the Lotus, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL, US
Printmaking Studio Monitor
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US
2006
Artist Talk
Its not an easy thing to meet the maker...
Paved Art and New Media, Saskatoon, SK, CA
Curator
Ghosts and Machines Exhibition
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
2004-7
Manager of Exhibitions and Design
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
2000-2
Communications Specialist / Project Manager
Community Arts Ontario / artsONline, Toronto, ON, CA
1999-2003
Freelance Arts Writer
Surface and Symbol, Toronto, ON, CA
1999-2000
Drawing and Painting Instructor
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, Toronto, ON, CA
1997
Art Instructor
Regent Park - Youth Centre, Toronto, ON, CA |