Speaking

Keynotes

International Encaustic Confoerence, Keynote Speaker, (June 10, 2023)
Grantmakers in the Arts, 2022 Conference, Arts and Tech Keynote Session, in conversation with Kamal Sinclair (Oct 11, 2022)
Artshub’s Visions 2020, Keynote Speaker (related: Meet our Keynote Speaker)
American Craft Council, “Present Tense: 2019” Conference, Keynote Speaker (October 2019) (audio, concise summary)

Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series, “What the hell do art critics do?” (July 8, 2019)
“The New Territories of Contemporary Art: Disturbing the Status-quo” lecture presented by East++ Institute for New Artistic Inquiry and Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, NY (October 25, 2018)
BmoreArt Talk with Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian and Jillian Steinhauer (April 2, 2015)

“Step inside the works of van Gogh with immersive exhibit in Montreal” CBC News (December 7, 2019)
“Paris’s New Public Art Work by Jeff Koons” BBC World News (October 4, 2019)
“Remembering those lost to COVID-19,” BBC OS (September 11, 2020)
I was also invited to submit a remembrance of my aunt Zabel Hamalian for BBC World Service which gave me a space to mourn my beloved Zabel tantig during a time when communal gatherings and travel was restricted.

The Truth in This Art, Exploring the Art World with Hrag Vartanian\ (March 7, 2023)
Hyde or Practice, Interview, July 24, 2020
Fresh Art International, Making Art, Creating Culture (Sept. 23, 2019)
The East is a Podcast, Art and the 1% (Sept. 7, 2019)
Two Old Bitches Podcast, Serious, Playful and Radical (April 19, 2019)
Museum Confidential (Philbrook Museum of Art/NPR), Ask the Experts (Mar 29, 2019)

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Kaywin Feldman: “National Gallery of Art Director Discusses the Decision to Delay the Philip Guston Exhibition,” Hyperallergic (October 1, 2020)
Decolonize This Place: “Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World,” Hyperallergic (September 25, 2020)
James Doyle (Met Curator) “The Artistic World of the Taíno People,” Hyperallergic (September 9, 2021)
John Yau: “Art Critic John Yau Talks About Four Decades of Writing in New York,” Hyperallergic Podcast (May 15, 2020)
Ariella Azoulay: “Connecting Museums, Modern Art, Colonialism, and Violence,” Hyperallergic Podcast (March 11, 2020)
Michael Rakowitz: “Michael Rakowitz Discusses Withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and His Leonard Cohen Problem” (May 17, 2019)
Nayland Blake: “The Unapologetic Queerness of Artist Nayland Blake” (June 17, 2019)
Gardiner Museum series on Clay and Ceramics:
- “Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum” (June 9, 2019)
- “Shary Boyle’s Exploration of the Fantastic and Political Lives of Clay” (July 23, 2019)
- “The Largely Unknown History of Blackface in Canada” (August 7, 2019)
- “The History, Context, and Legacy of an Ancient Maya Plate” (September 3, 2019)