Conversation with Natasha Becker

ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning): Natasha Becker

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The ALT + SHIFT + COMM series continued on June 23 with Natasha Becker. The conversation focused on communal strategies to foster independent curatorship, provide opportunities and networks of empowerment to women curators, and tackle issues of systemic discrimination and social justice.

Natasha Becker was born in South Africa and has spent the last sixteen years living and working between Cape Town and New York. An expert in contemporary African and African American art, she has curated a number of exhibitions in collaboration with artists, curators, collectors, galleries, museums, and foundations in South Africa and the United States.  

She recently co-curated two exhibitions, “Perilous Bodies,” and “Radical Love,” at the distinguished Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice to inaugurate their new art gallery in New York (2019). Her past experience includes curating exhibitions at the Goodman Gallery (South Africa), organizing public programs in global art history at the Clark Art Institute, and launching an international video art festival (both Massachusetts, USA). 

Natasha is an independent curator and one of the co-founders of ASSEMBLY ROOM, a curatorial platform for art and advocacy in New York. Her curatorial work is focused on bringing visibility to contemporary artists from the global African Diaspora.  

Links_

Assembly Room
http://assemblyroom.nyc/

Interviews with Assembly Room/Our Story
Hyperallergic
Maake Magazine

Anti-racism Resources in the Arts
Artsy Feature

Resources on Black Liberation/Society
Sixty Inches from the Center

Other organizations mentioned:
www.artfare.com
www.artcuratorgrid.com
arttable.org
www.newartdealers.org
www.powarts.org
www.recessart.org

White Women 2020:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA25LpzAdND/

New York Times article on Black Gallerists
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/art-basel-black-owned-galleries.html