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Erika Umali

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Curator of Collections @icaboston 🖼️
Previously @brooklynmuseum 🏛️

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One year of Tita and Wonton🥟

(no face because the internet was already weird and now there's AI) by @erkuml

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Kissing 2025 good bye💋 by @erkuml

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9 months ago

🗣️OPEN NOW

✨An Indigenous Present✨, co-curated by @jeffrune and Jenelle Porter, is a thematic exhibition with works spanning 100 years by artists working in various modes of abstraction from across North America of Indigenous descent. It is NOT a survey of Indigenous art! The show includes new commissions and never-before-seen works, and artists you (should) know well and artists you will know well soon.

It has been an honor to work on this incredibly important exhibition with the curators, the immensely talented @_maxgruber, and all of the artists. See it @icaboston through March 8.

Included Artists:
⭐️Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa; born 1985 in Watford City, ND)
⭐️Raven Chacon (Diné; born 1977 at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation)
⭐️Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation; born 1984 in Bellingham, WA)
⭐️Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq and Koyukon Athabascan; born 1969 in Bethel, AK)
⭐️Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill (Cree and Métis; born 1979 in Comox, British Columbia)
⭐️George Longfish (Seneca and Tuscarora; born 1942 in Ohsweken, Ontario)
⭐️Dakota Mace (Diné; born 1991 in Albuquerque, NM)
⭐️Kimowan Metchewais (Cree; born 1963 in Oxbow, Saskatchewan; died 2011 in St. Paul, Alberta)
⭐️Caroline Monnet (Algonquin-Anishinaabe and French; born 1985 in Ottawa, Ontario)
⭐️George Morrison (Ojibwe; born 1919 in Chippewa City, MN; died 2000, Red Rock, MN)
⭐️Audie Murray (Cree and Métis; born 1993 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
⭐️Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation; born 1940 at St. Ignatius Mission, Flathead Reservation, MT; died 2025 in Corrales, NM)
⭐️Mary Sully (Yankton Dakota; born 1896 at Standing Rock Reservation, SD; died 1963 in Omaha, NE)
⭐️Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, and Greek; born 1977 in Lawrence, KS)
⭐️Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee and Anglo; born 1935 in Syracuse, NY)

Installation 📸 by @m.ltaing by @erkuml

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a year ago

March🤳🏽 by @erkuml

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2 years ago

🗣️NEW & ON VIEW
These three portraits by @raniamatar document a young woman named Samira, a third-generation Arab-Palestinian refugee living in a refugee camp outside Beirut, over the course of sixteen years. Tracing her experiences as a stateless refugee, Samira is shown from childhood as a young girl surrounded by family within the camp to adulthood as a young woman outside the camp where the natural setting's sense of freedom is undercut by tangled rings of barbed wire.

You can see these photographs of Samira @icaboston through the end of the year in my exhibition "Portraits from the ICA Collection" where these three portraits open the show.

1. Installation view, "Portraits from the ICA Collection", @icaboston, 2025-26. Photo by @m.ltaing
2. "Samira, Hasna, and Wafa’a, Bourj El�Barajneh Refugee Camp, Beirut", 2005. Archival pigment print.
3. "Samira, Samira at 13, Bourj El-Barajneh
Refugee Camp, Beirut", 2013. Archival pigment print.
4. "Samira, Jnah, Beirut, Lebanon", 2021. Archival pigment print. by @erkuml

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2 years ago

Man, what a hell of a year it's been. by @erkuml

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2 years ago

Congratulations, @jeffrune! “Power Full Because We’re Different” now open at @massmoca. taken in MASS MoCA by @erkuml

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2 years ago

The Umalis went on their first vacation since 2011. Here are the Crown Jewels💂🏽‍♀️

Catch the bonus content on the Umali Family Christmas Card, coming this winter taken in England, United Kingdom by @erkuml

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Summer 2024 highlights☀️ by @erkuml

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2 years ago

With an assignment like “Foreigners Everywhere”, artists and curators truly took on what it means to be or feel foreign even in the country where you were born. Indigeneity and legacies of colonialism were at center stage in many installations. Here are some highlights from some of the national pavilions I saw (I had more favorites, but not every pavilion photographed well so sorry if I missed your favorite):

1. United States🇺🇸
2. Denmark🇩🇰
3. Australia 🇦🇺
4. Netherlands🇳🇱
5. Spain🇪🇸
6. Nigeria🇳🇬
7. Mongolia🇲🇳
8. Zimbabwe🇿🇼
9. Panama🇵🇦
10. Uruguay🇺🇾 taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @erkuml

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2 years ago

@doublejbell and @max_not_mark may have gotten married, but Josh and I had a wedding👩🏽‍❤️‍👨🏻 by @erkuml

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3 years ago

Due to a series of unfortunate events at the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024, I wasn't able to actually print and mail my holiday cards this year. But I want you all to know I thought of you and hopefully I'll have better luck getting my cards out next year❄️ taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @erkuml

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