Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz

Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz is an artist, curator, poet, and PhD candidate in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, with a specialization in modern and contemporary art from the north of Africa. Their dissertation, “Indigenous Presentness: Translocal Politics of Amazigh Art and Resistance,” explores the nexus between Amazigh artistic production and sovereignty movements across the Indigenous territories known as Tamazgha, connecting recent revival movements to larger discourses on indigeneity and Africanity. Khaymaz is the 2023 recipient of the Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Paper in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art, awarded by the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) for their paper titled “To Twist a Historical Knot: Projects of Pan-Arabism, Hurufiyya, and Amazighism.” In 2022, they were awarded the Mark Tessler Graduate Student Prize Award by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) for the paper titled “Phantom Images, Residual Violences: An Unlooking and Untelling of Marc Garanger’s Femmes algériennes 1960.” Between 2023 and 2024, Khaymaz held curatorial fellowships at Tate Modern, London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

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