Closing reception and Conversation with Bahareh Khoshooee, Siebren Versteeg, and Umber Majeed
Saturday, December 12th, 2–4pm at Yeh Art Gallery
Join artists Bahareh Khoshooee and Siebren Versteeg in conversation with artist Umber Majeed to mark the closing of their exhibitions at the Yeh Art Gallery. Bringing together three artists whose practices explore the increasingly blurred boundaries between physical and digital experience, the conversation will consider how technologies shape our relationships to images, place, memory, and identity. Drawing from Khoshooee’s exploration of migration and technologically mediated distance, Versteeg’s engagement with live feeds and networked images, and Majeed’s use of archives, simulation, and digital worldbuilding to reconsider diasporic histories, the artists will discuss the possibilities—and contradictions—of making art within an increasingly mediated world. Space is limited; please RSVP to warshm@stjohns.edu
About Umber Majeed
Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. She has shown internationally in group exhibitions at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2024); the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE (2019); the Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan (2017), among others. Majeed has received numerous fellowships including the Eyebeam Fellowship, Brooklyn (2026); the ISCP Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, Brooklyn (2025); ; the QM-Jerome Fellowship, Queens (2024); the Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2020); the Digital Earth Fellowship, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19); the Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018); and the HWP Fellowship, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (2017). She lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan.