Aliyah Hasinah

Aliyah Hasinah is a filmmaker, curator, writer, and founder of Black Curatorial – a curatorial agency prioritizing radical Black thought alongside Black artists, curators and audiences. Black Curatorial’s focus is exhibition making, consultancy, cultural programming, residencies, and research funding centering Black global stewardship and culture making. Aliyah’s interdisciplinary practice centers decoloniality, cultural equity, and healing through play. Grounded in Black feminist and anti-colonial thought, Aliyah’s research focuses on global curatorial strategies, anti-colonial dreaming, Caribbean photographic histories, and indigenous medicinal practice. As a filmmaker, Aliyah’s debut feature film, White Teeth, focuses the origins of the climate crisis in the Caribbean. Aliyah has consulted for the Art Fund, National Maritime Museum, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Nando’s, D&AD, and more. She has curated for Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Southbank Centre, Eastside Projects, Ort Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, and more. In 2019, Arts Council England funded her research in Decolonising the Curatorial that took place in the UK, Barbados, New York, and Bahia, Brazil.