Great Hall Exhibition Series Fall 2025
Exhibition Curators
Lauren Berling
Modern & Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
Lauren is a second-year M.A. student at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her current research focuses on Algeria and France. Lauren has held positions at MoMA and Spring/Break Art Show. She received a B.A degree in Political Humanities from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University.
Sarah Diaz
Contemporary Caribbean Art of the Americas
Sarah Diaz is a Harriet Griffin Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts, currently completing her second year of the M.A. program. Her research focuses on contemporary art of the Caribbean, as well their diasporas. She is particularly interested in exploring the Afro-diasporic nodes of connectivity between the insular Caribbean and regions with similar histories, such as Northeastern Brazil. She has held positions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Arthur Ross Gallery, and Auckland Art Gallery. While at the Auckland Art Gallery, she aided in the development of the exhibition, "Manpower: Myths of Masculinity." Sarah received her B.A. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania.
Elena Evnin
Arts & Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean and Italian Renaissance
Elena Evnin is a first-year M.A. student at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her scholarly interests span the Ancient Mediterranean and Italian Renaissance, with a particular emphasis on art created by women. She has spent two seasons as a member of the American Excavations Samothrace archaeological team working at the Hellenistic Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace, Greece. Prior to her graduate studies, she received her B.A. in History from Princeton University, where she also pursued minors in Environmental Studies and Archaeology. Her undergraduate research focused on Southeast African ecofeminist and European textile-production histories.
Luis Adrián Guevara-Flores
Latin American Indigenous Arts of the Americas
Luis Adrián Guevara-Flores is a Ph.D. student in Latin American Indigenous Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. His research critiques national museums that display Indigenous art, language, and traditions of Latin America, from ancient objects to contemporary craft, while also having conducted comparative research in South Africa and East Asia. He has held roles at the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico), Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Embassy of Mexico in Japan. He earned his B.A. in History of Art and Latin American Studies from Yale University.
Moe’Neyah Holland
Contemporary African-American Art and Archaeological Antiquity
Moe’Neyah Holland is a first year M.A. student at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on contemporary African-American art, particularly interested in the avant-garde techniques to gain permanence in the Western canon. Her first curatorial endeavors were at the Tacoma Art Museum where she co-curated youth art exhibitions, and later held community roles for the Kinsey Collection Committee, and for The Current program. She has held roles with the City of Seattle, Yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective, the Henry Art Gallery, and Seattle Art Museum. As a curatorial fellow for A Plus A Gallery, in Venice, Italy, she co-curated Time:lapse and conducted research on the 1993 Venice Biennale. Currently she serves as a student assistant for the Empathy Museum’s traveling installation A Mile in My Shoes. She received a B.A. in Art History at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Kaleha Kegode
Arts & Archeology of Africa and the Middle East
Kaleha Kegode is a second-year M.A. student at the Institute of the Fine Arts. Her involvement in the Fall Great Hall Exhibition with Acaye Kerunen marks her second year with the series. Her work, foregrounded in the early premodern era, illuminates narratives of European colonialism and exploitation through overlooked material histories. She is particularly interested in transmaritime connections across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Through the examination of everyday objects, architectural interiors, and textiles, she seeks to elucidate women' s experiences in East Africa and beyond. She has participated in archeological excavations in Aphrodisias, Turkey. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in International Area Studies, with a concentration in Africa and the Middle East. She was a co-curator of Rose Salane’s Great Hall Exhibition in Spring 2025.
Josie Lee
Modern and Contemporary Art
Josie Lee is a second-year M.A. student at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her research takes on modern and contemporary art with a special focus on undermined materials such as natural fibers and East Asian lacquer. She is currently conducting research on dry lacquered sculptures in postwar Korea. She graduated with a dual BA in French Literature and BFA in Fine Arts from Korea University. She has previously held positions at Kukje Gallery, ArtDrunk, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). She is currently the 2025-26 Curatorial Intern at Dia Art Foundation.
Sacha Reid
Arts of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora
Sacha Reid is a first-year M.A. student with research interests in the arts of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, with a specialization on artist forms of portraiture as a tool for cultural assertion. She is also interested in the interactions between contemporary Black artists and antiquity, as well as arts from the Chinese-Caribbean diaspora. Sacha was a curatorial research and programming coordination intern at The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art for two years. She was also a Museum Education Practicum member at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Before beginning her studies at The Institute, Sacha graduated from Howard University in May 2025 with a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities, concentrating in Art History and minoring in painting.