Speakers

  • Sarah Khan

Sarah K. Khan utilizes food to provoke thought about injustice towards people and the planet. A maker and scholar, Khan employs photography, films, video art, printmaking, maps and writing to defy erasure and to build archives, simultaneously. Khan reveals the invisible labor and mastery of the disregarded. To inscribe the denied into global and local multi-visual cultures, she researches and documents the lives of ordinary people who are extraordinary. The subjects and subject matter, real or conjured, are complex individuals dealing with the challenges of their times.

A two-time Fulbright recipient, Khan earned a BA in Middle Eastern history and Arabic (Smith College), two Masters (public health and nutrition, Columbia University) and a Ph.D. (traditional ecological knowledge systems, plant sciences, New York Botanical Garden-CUNY). She has received grants, fellowships, and residencies. Upcoming is a Baldwin for the Arts Residency 2022, The Kohler Arts/Industry Residency 2022. She is presently an Artist in Residence at Princeton University, part of Art Hx to address how medicine, art and race informed each other in the British Empire. Some past residencies include Project for Empty Space Feminist Residency (2020), Indigo Arts Alliance (2019), and the Boren Chertkov Residency for Labor and Justice at Blue Mountain Center (2019). @sarahkkhan

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