from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Mansur Nurullah (b. Chicago, 1972) is a San Francisco-based artist who creates intricate, semi-abstract quilted sculptures inspired by the legacies of African-American quilt making, memorializing personal, familial, and community histories. Using discarded clothing, scrapped furniture, road signs, upholstery samples, and disassembled shoes and handbags, Nurullah's work reflects his journey through emotional landscapes and his experiences counseling formerly incarcerated youth. Beyond his art, he works as a counselor for suspended and expelled students in San Francisco public schools and has held residencies with Recology and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Nurullah is also an affiliate artist at Minnesota Street Projects and lives and works in San Francisco.
Matthew Villar Miranda (he/they/siya) joined BAMPFA in 2023 and formerly worked as the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center where they co-organized exhibitions by Pao Houa Her, Paul Chan, and Pacita Abad. They serve on the board of Museums Moving Forward (MMF), a Ford and Mellon Foundation-funded initiative of an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. They co-curated the Art for Justice Fund-supported exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration at the Arizona State University Art Museum (ASUAM). They received their BA in History of Art from UC Berkeley (2013) and graduated among the inaugural Class of ASU-Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master's Fellowship in Art History (2021). They research queer intimacies and decolonial interventions by artists of the imagined and material tropics. Join us in the gallery on Thursday, November 21, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
Matthew Villar Miranda (he/they/siya) joined BAMPFA in 2023 and formerly worked as the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center where they co-organized exhibitions by Pao Houa Her, Paul Chan, and Pacita Abad. They serve on the board of Museums Moving Forward (MMF), a Ford and Mellon Foundation-funded initiative of an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. They co-curated the Art for Justice Fund-supported exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration at the Arizona State University Art Museum (ASUAM). They received their BA in History of Art from UC Berkeley (2013) and graduated among the inaugural Class of ASU-Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master's Fellowship in Art History (2021). They research queer intimacies and decolonial interventions by artists of the imagined and material tropics. Join us in the gallery on Thursday, November 21, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
