Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Cameron A. Granger, Nsenga Knight, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz in a virtual verbal description tour of their respective exhibitions, 9999, Close to Home, and Buenos Vecinos. Using various media and approaches across sculpture, printmaking, painting, collage, and video, these three artists engage with archives and history to reframe and consider new perspectives.

Join these three artists as they each verbally describe an artwork from their solo exhibitions and discuss their practice with participants. 

Cameron A. Granger: 9999 unmasks power structures and their hidden, yet accumulative, violence in shaping Black neighborhoods. Through film, sculptures, and prints, Granger blends history and the supernatural to both scrutinize the construction of systemic oppression and imagine alternative futures. Granger combines histories of Black magicians and conjurers with the iconography of video games to examine the insidiously concealed influences of urban planning on Black communities.

Nsenga Knight: Close to Home contextualizes personal and communal histories with that of postcolonial self-representation of Afro-Muslim national pavilions in 1964-65 World’s Fair and the history of the Queens Museum’s building. Drawing from her Afro-Caribbean American Muslim background and six years living in Cairo, Egypt, Knight explores the expansive meanings of home as a space of spiritual refuge, as well as a space for fostering understanding and reflecting on calls for peace amidst global conflicts and oppression. Knight’s installations and artworks resituate archives and histories within this domestic setting, which is elaborately composed with Knight’s videos, photography, prints, paintings, and a reference library.

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz: Buenos Vecinos confronts the legacy of two Walt Disney films that emerged from state-sponsored research trips to Latin American nations. Schliebener Muñoz examines how these films functioned as a form of soft power, enlisting children’s media towards the economic and geopolitical interests of the United States. Through installation, sculpture, collage, and large-scale mural works, the artist questions how forms of caricature and othering further exploited and infantilized the relationship between North and South America.

This two-hour program will be facilitated by Sarah Cho, Assistant Curator and Lindsey Berfond, Assistant Curator and Studio Programs Manager. The virtual description tour will be accessible by Zoom link or by dial-in, depending on your preference. 

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For questions or assistance registering for the program, please email accessibility@queensmuseum.org or call 718 592 9700.

About the Artists:

Cameron A. Granger (b. Cleveland, OH, 1993) is an In Situ Artist Fellow at the Queens Museum. He attended Euclid, OH public schools and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Granger has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2022); Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2019), and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (2018), among others. He has shown in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2022), Jack Shainman The School, Kinderhook, NY (2022), and The Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE (2021), among others. Granger was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2022). His film, Before I Let Go, was awarded Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival. Granger’s work can be found in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. Granger lives and works between Columbus, OH and Queens, NY.

Nsenga Knight (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1981) is an In Situ Artist Fellow at the Queens Museum. She earned an MFA from University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Howard University. She has exhibited her work internationally, including: Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt (2022); Drawing Center, New York, NY (2017, 2016); Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY (2017); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2016); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2015); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2011); and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY (2009) among others. Knight is a recipient of grants from Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2019), Foundation for Contemporary Art (2016), Leeway Foundation (2010), Brooklyn Arts Council (2007), and Brooklyn Historical Society (2006) among others. She was an artist-in-residence at BRICworkspace, Brooklyn, NY (2019); GAR, Galveston, Texas (2011-2012); and Film/Video Arts Center, New York, NY (2005) among others. She lives and works in New York. 

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz (b. Santiago, Chile, 1980) is an In Situ Artist Fellow at the Queens Museum. They earned a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales. Schliebener Muñoz has had solo shows at Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (2024), Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York, NY (2022, 2016); Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (2021); Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile (2011), among others. They have shown in group exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, New York, NY (2023); Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY (2022, 2021, 2018); Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY (2022), among others. Schliebener Muñoz is the recipient of an Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018) and a Queer Artist Fellowship from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2017). Schliebener Muñoz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.