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Katherine Toukhy
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Awards, Fellowships & Residencies:
2024
Fellowship for Utopian Practice, Culture Push
2023
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI, Visiting Artist in Residence
Erie Arts and Culture, Erie, PA, Visiting Artist
2022
Summer Fellowship/ full scholarship resident, Chautauqua Institute
2021
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Covid-19 Bridge Fund
City Artist Corps Grant
Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable
Cultural Solidarity Fund Emergency Grant
2020
Trestle Gallery, Visiting Artist Residency
Creative Action Fund Micro Grant, The Laundromat Project
Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable
2019
Brooklyn Arts Council Artist Grant
BRIC Media Fellowship
2018
Bronx Museum Artist In the Marketplace cohort
2017
Project for Empty Space, Feminist in Residence
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, ACE Grant
Vermont Studio Center Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
BRIC Workspace summer residency
2016
The Laundromat Project, commissioned artist for the Khayamiyya Monument
Brooklyn Arts Council grants for the Khayamiyya Monument
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant nomination
2015
Art Matters, grant nomination
Brooklyn Arts Council grants for RASMI
2014
The Laundromat Project Create Change fellowship with partial scholarship
Paperworks Unbound Award: selection for 8 most distinguished works, Claire Gilman, curator of The Drawing Center
Puffin Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council grants for RASMI: an arts workshop for Arab or Muslim youth in Brooklyn
2013
Curator Mahnaz Fancy’s list of top 30 works for Curate NYC
Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts grant for RASMI: an arts workshop for Arab and Muslim youth in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Arts Council Local Arts Support grant for RASMI
2012
Emerging Artist Purchase Award, WAH Society, Williamsburg, NY
2002
Foundation Book Award, Painting Department, Mass College of Art
Selected Exhibitions:
2024
An ABC No Rio in Exile exhibition of anything and everything the color red, curated by Yasmeen Abdullah and Robert Goldkind, Bullet Space, NY, NY
2023
Highlights From the Permanent Collection, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Distribution of the Sensible, with: Adelita Husni-Bey, Ala Dehghan, Ala Younis, Andrea Dezso, Art Against Displacement, Ashima Yadava, Enrique Figueredo, Tyanna Buie, Ciarán Finlayson, Cinemóvil NYC, Decolonize This Place, Feminist Collage NYC, Heather Hart, Gregory Sale (with collaborators Dr. Luis Garcia, Kirn Kim, Sabrina Reid, Jessica Tully), Jordan Seaberry, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Katherine Toukhy, Kayfa ta, Kelley-Ann Lindo, LaRissa Rogers, Luis Vasquez La Roche, Maha Maamoun, Mala Iqbal + Angela Dufresne, Meena Hasan, Passenger Pigeon Press, People’s Forum, Sa’dia Rehman, organized by Ala Dehghan, Meena Hasan and Kelley-Ann Lindo at Memorial Hall, RISD, Providence, RI
Superchill, with: Defne Tutus, Fred Fleisher, Glen Einbinder, James Cullinane, J.T. McCann, Junichiro Ishida, Liz Ainslie, Katherine Earle, Katherine Toukhy, Mike Piergrossi, Marcy Chevali, Micki Watanabe Spiller, Noemi Makes Things, Shelly Bahl, Tulin Battikhi, Vandana Jain, Yasmeen Abdallah and organized by Vandana Jain and Mike Estabrook at Cloud of Bats Studio, Brooklyn, NY
A Peek Behind the Curtain, with: bARBER, YooHee Chang, Stephanie Chisholm, Will Douglas, Germán Enrique-Caceres Cueto, Jack Gordon, Jack Arthur Wood, Ray Hwang, Katherine Toukhy, Roberta Feoli de Lucia, Noelle Velez, James Kerley, David Jones, Sophie Layton, Maite Pinto, Zach Rafuls, Maya Strauss, Elise Thompson, Xingyun Wang, Sarah Grass, Debbie Kenote and curated by Weihui Lu & Sammy Bennett at Bob’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Bronx Calling, Bronx Museum, NY, NY
Connections 2, Fowler Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2021
For Eve’s Garden, City Artist Corps Public Mural installed at the Flatbush African Burial Ground, Brooklyn, NY
Solo Exhibition: Breathing Through the Cracks of the Impossible Machine, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Full Circle, WoArtBlog online exhibition
2020
Creative Climate Awards, public installations by 15 artists across NYC, storefront at 57 Willoughby St, Brooklyn, NY
100 Years | 100 Women, commissioned by The Laundromat Project for the Park Ave Armory, NY, NY
Expect Some Discomfort, with: Dominique Duroseau, Chloe Bass, Gina Goico, Yeon Ji Yoo, Katherine Toukhy, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Mitsuko Brooks, Nestor Perez-Moliere and curated by David Rios Ferreira at Empty Set Gallery, Bronx, NY
2019
BRIC Media Fellows Public Screening, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Figuring the Floral, with: Derrick Adams, Nicole Awai, Bahar Behbahani, Christian Ruiz Berman, Sanford Biggers, Cecile Chong, Max Colby, Abigail DeVille, Valerie Hegarty, Christopher K. Ho and Kevin Zucker, Diana Lozano, Natalia Nakazawa, Ebony G. Patterson, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Lina Puerta, Simonette Quamina, David Rios Ferreira, Alexandria Smith, Katherine Toukhy, Linia Iris Viktor, William Villalongo, Saya Woolfalk, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2018
For Freedoms Public Engagement Piece, with BAM 50 State Initiative, Brooklyn, NY
Part Three Permanent Collection, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Home Front, Old Stone House, Brooklyn NY
Four Person show: Incision, Feminists in Residence Exhibition, with Camille Lee, Chaya Babu, Christen Clifford, Katherine Toukhy, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2017
BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn, NY
Multitudes: Art after the #Muslimban, Richard F. Brush Gallery at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
2016
The Khayamiyya Monument and Open Mic, Arab American Association, Brooklyn, NY
Shehrezade’s gift, Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Shehrezade’s gift, The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Two-person show: And still she grows flowers in her flesh. New work with Alexandria Smith Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Herstory, Skylight Gallery and Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Creative Dissent, Alwan for the Arts, NY, NY
2015
This story has no end, HERE Arts Center, Soho, NY
Living Museum, collaboration with Floor Groetenhuis for Queens Art Intervention
Shehrezade’s gift, Local Project, Queens, NY
The tea talks: A collective archive, part of DIWAN conference at Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
You broke the ocean in half, Bay Ridge SAW, public art installation, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Paperworks Unbound, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Solo show (pop-up): Artificial Romance, a mixed media installation, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Prologue-Epilogue The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ Open Doors Festival
Are we Already Gone? Flickerlab Studios, NY, NY
Alwan for the Arts Benefit Auction, Shirin Gallery, NY NY
Bay Ridge SAW, public art installation on 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Curate NYC, official selection by guest curator Mahnaz Fancy, NY, NY
AccessArt, Brooklyn Arts Council Benefit Auction, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
DIWAN 5: A Forum for the Arts, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
2012
WAH Sweet Sixteen Gala and Exhibit, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
WAH Spring Fling, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Mujeres: Modern perspectives, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2010
International Women’s Day Film Festival, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
2009
Women’s Independent International Film Festival, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
2008
Change: To Make the Form, Nature, or Content, Future Course of Something Different, Washington Street Art Center, Boston, MA
2007
Between Image and Reality, guest for “Diwan: A Forum for the Arts,” Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
2006
WCA Annual Exhibition, Bunker Hill College Art Gallery, Roxbury, MA
Selected Teaching, Workshops, & Public Speaking:
2023
Visiting Artist Workshop, “Iteru: Fluid Movement & Drawing,” AANM, Dearborn, MI
Visiting Artist Workshop, “Radical Presence through Moving, Drawing,” Erie, PA
Guest Artist Workshops, “Geometric Printmaking,” & “Experimental Drawing,” Posterhouse, NY, NY
Guest Lecturer, Buffalo University Art Department, Advanced Seminar, Buffalo, NY
Lead Educator, Project Reset (court diversion program), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Guest Lecturer, Buffalo University Art Department, Advanced Seminar, Buffalo, NY
Guest Artist Workshop, Experimental Collage, Posterhouse, NY, NY
Guest Artist Workshop, Creating Symbols of Renewal Through Printmaking, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Teen Program Arts Educator, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2021
Artist talk for solo exhibition, Trestle Gallery online programming
Speaker, Gathering Cedar: Arab/Inigenous Contemporary Visual Art and Poetry, RAWIfest virtual programs
Guest speaker, NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center and Global Nomads Teacher Fellowship, NYU virtual programs
2020
Artist Talk for Creative Climate Awards, Human Impacts Institute, online
Moderated artist talk with four other commissioned artists, The Reality of a Future, The Laundromat Project, online
2019
Guest lecturer, Smith College Art Department Advanced Studio Seminar, North Hampton, MA
Portfolio reviews, Parsons Scholars Program, Parsons The New School, NY, NY
Panelist, Arab/Inigenous: Palestinian, Indigenous North African, and Arab/ Native Art, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Portland Oregon
2018
Guest Artist, Black Love Fest by The Black School, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Harlem, NY
2017
Speaker, Sanctuary, Lincoln Center Rubenstein Auditorium, NY, NY
Guest Lecturer, Collaborative Research Studio, The New School, NY, NY
2016
Artist talk, Shehrezade’s Gift, Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Artist talks, The Art of Herstory, Skylight Gallery and Welancora Gallery, NY
2015
Interactive presentation, The tea talks, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
2013
Panelist, Icononclasts: Arab American Women Cross the New Frontier, at the DIWAN conference, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
2013-15
Creator and Director, RASMI: an arts workshop for Arab and Muslim youth in Brooklyn
2009
Curriculum writer and Teacher, A video workshop for teens using Iraqi poetry, hip hop, and storytelling, Al Bustan, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Curriculum writer and Co-teacher, Voices Beyond Walls: Making youth videos in Palestine & teaching with them in the U.S, West Bank and Northeastern U.S.
2007
Selected panelist at Diwan: A Forum for the Arts, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Selected Bibliography
2022
Corwin, William, “Bronx Calling": The Fifth AIM Biennial,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2022
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/artseen/Bronx-Calling-The-Fifth-AIM-Biennial
Stavsky, Lois, “Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial Continues at Bronx Museum,” Art BreakOut, January 6, 2022 https://artbreakout.com/sociallypolitically-conscious-art/bronx-calling-the-fifth-aim-biennial-continues-at-the-bronx-museum-through-march-20/
”Meet the AIM artist: Katherine Toukhy,” Bronx Museum YouTube channel, March 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbbrAWqYFfw
2020
Kinsella, Eileen, “Editor’s Picks: 19 Things to See in New York this Week,” for The Reality of a Future by The Laundromat Project, Artnet News, November 16, 2020.
Marius, Marley. “A New Exhibition Asks: What Has and Hasn’t Been Accomplished 100 Years After Women Earned the Right to Vote?” Vogue, August 18, 2020.
https://www.vogue.com/article/100-years-100-women-armory
Nayyar, Rhea. ”Points of Vulnerability,” feature on “Expect Some Discomfort” at Empty Set Gallery, Arcade Project, July, 2020. https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/points-of-vulnerablity
2018
“Meet the 2019 Media Arts Fellowship Recipients,” BRIC Blog, Dec 17, 12:00pm. https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/meet-2019-media-arts-fellowship-recipients
2017
Cascone, Sarah, "Editor's Picks: 15 Things to See in New York This Week," for Incision at Project for Empty Space, Artnet news, January 29, 2017.
2016
Brooklyn Arts Council, “Veterans Day BAC Grantee Spotlight and Interview,” Nov 11. https://bkartscouncil.tumblr.com/post/153041157318/veterans-day-interview- spotlight-bac-grantee
Alli, Chanel, “Crown Heights’ FiveMyles Gallery Offers Dynamic Summer Exhibition,” BKReader, July 7, 2016.
2015
Nii, Yuko, “The 10 AWARD Recipients of ‘Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound show,”Awardee announcement with photograph, 2015.
2008
Oweis, Fayeq, editor, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists,” Greenwood Press, 2008.
Selected Publications as Author
Toukhy, Katherine. “A Bomb With a Ribbon Around It.” Jadaliyya (online) January 2014. http://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30092/A-Bomb,-With-Ribbon-Around-It
Toukhy, Katherine. “Retropical: Superstitions of the Other.” Contemporary Other. Issue 1, 2015
Toukhy, Katherine. “Environmental Justice Local to Global.” The Laundromat Project Blog. September 2014. http://laundromatproject.org/environmental-justice-from-local-to-global/
Garrido, Ro and Toukhy, Katherine. “Creative Conversations.” The Laundromat Project Blog. November 2014. http://laundromatproject.org/ro-garrido-katherine-toukhy/
Artistic Juries
2021 Dirt Palace residency, Providence, RI | 2019 Multidisciplinary and Literary Arts Grants, LMCC, NY, NY | 2018 Vermont Studio Center fellowships, Johnson, VT | 2015 Create Change Fellowship, The Laundromat Project, NY, NY
Education:
2022-24 Transformative Change with Reverend Angle Kyodo Williams, Mindfulness, embodiment, and social justice certification programs (ongoing)
2015 People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Undoing Racism intensive
2005 Massachusetts College of Art, Painting, B.F.A with Honors
1998 Boston College, B.A. Philosophy and Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa
Collections:
2023
Arab American National Museum Permanent Collection, Dearborn, MI
Private collections, PA, MI, Italy
2013-2022
Works held in private collections in New York, Cairo, Rhode Island, California
2019
Yuko Nii Permanent Collection, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Yuko Nii Permanent Collection, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY