Bashaprojects sites the curatorial output of cultural producer Regine Basha. It serves as both a virtual compendium of curated exhibitions, public interventions and writing from today through until the past two decades, as well as a platform for two independent broadcast channels, Resident : Host and Tuning Baghdad. Resident : Host provides access to studio visits and interviews that are a large part of the curator’s research but are often in accessible to an audience. Tuning Baghdad is a personal audio-visual archive of music, story-telling and narrative history related to her family’s background as an Iraqi-Jew.
Basha has worked for over 20 years curating exhibitions and public programs nationally and internationally in a variety of public institutions, public spaces, galleries and museums. In the past decade, she has a developed a specific expertise in the work of sound installation artists as well as art coming from the MENA region and its diaspora. Her exhibitions have been funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the NEA has been reviewed by the New York Times, Artforum and The Wire.
Basha was born in Israel to Iraqi parents, and grew up in Montreal and Los Angeles. She studied studio art and art history at New York University and Concordia University and completed her M.A in 1996 from Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She was based in Austin, Texas from 2002-2008 where she became Curator of Arthouse and Co-Founder of Fluent-Collaborative and has been working from New York since 2008. Currently, she is based between New York and Madrid.
Basha is a private consultant and can bring over 20 years of experience to the development of start-up residencies, non-profits and the building of private collections.
She also works one-on-one with artists in all stages of their career on: project development, MFA thesis shows, public art production, and application support.
For fees and terms of consulting contact reginebasha@gmail.com
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