Nadiah Rivera Fellah

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Curadora asociada de arte contemporáneo en el Cleveland Museum of Art. Since 2015, Fellah has served in various capacities at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey. Most recently at Newark, she curated the celebrated exhibition Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, and served as the primary author and editor for the accompanying catalogue. Fellah was tasked at the Newark Museum with integrating several Latin American works into the American galleries prior to the wing’s expansion. In 2014, she curated Left Coast: California Political Art at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The exhibition, which included three new commissions, explored the ways that art in California since the 1980s has reflected contemporaneous political struggles. Prior to these projects, Fellah held curatorial positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Earlier this year, Fellah received her doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation focused on the role of photography in capturing stories of migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. An Oberlin College alumna, joining the CMA staff marks a homecoming for Fellah. Fellah’s publications include Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 2019); “Mining ‘The Maniacs,’” in Wendy Red Star: The Maniacs (Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico University Gallery, 2018); Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African American Expressionism at the Newark Museum (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 2016), among others. Fellah moves to Cleveland with her family this fall and assumes her responsibilities at the Cleveland Museum of Art in early November.