Visiting Artist Lecture: Adam HajYahia

Visiting Artist Lecture: Adam HajYahia
Monday, March 9, 2026 at 7 p.m.
Civic Square Building, Room 110

Bio
Adam HajYahia’s work examines how aesthetic practices of image-making, performance, writing, and sound—both within and outside the art market—reflect on, simulate, initiate, and break apart sociality and political consciousness, particularly after the advent of colonial modernity. Through his work as a scholar, writer, and curator, he explores the at once harmonious and dissonant relationships between psychoanalysis and social organization, desire and labor, and settler-colonial and imperial economies, as well as counter forms of political rebellion. He has recently served on the selection committee at the Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva (BIM’26) and published An Echo in Search of its Shadow: Aesthetics of the Repressed (2024), featuring new artworks by Haitham Haddad. His curatorial projects and scholarship have been presented and featured in various museums, universities, and cultural institutions, such as the Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025), The Vera List Center at The New School (2024), The Mosaic Rooms (2023), The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center (2023), MoMA PS1 (2022), The Berlin Biennale 12 (2022), and Mophradat (2022-24). He is currently Associate Curator at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts, Bard College.

Image courtesy of the artist.

This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all.

ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at 848-932-5399 / coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu one week prior to event.
Masks strongly encouraged
Wheelchair accessible with ramps and elevators
Quiet room available