Two Thousand Seasons: A Look Into 2026 and Beyond

Rahima Gambo is a Nigerian multimedia artist and photographer who came to artistic practice by working independently on long-form trans-media documentary projects. Gambo currently explores an expanded moving photography through the narrative and experimental capabilities of “walking” as it intersects with the documentary form, psycho-spiritual-geography, sociopolitics, urban environment, and autobiography.

Kaneza Schaal is a Rwandan-American artist and arts education advocate who works in theater, film, and opera. She believes that theater is a model for a participatory society and fundamental to a functioning democracy. Her work has been presented at numerous institutions, including The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Los Angeles Opera, Detroit Opera, LA Philharmonic, The Shed, Walker Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, The New Victory Theater and New Orleans Center for Contemporary Art. Kaneza Schaal is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, United States Artists Fellowship, Soros Arts Migration and Public Space Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Art for Justice Bearing Witness Award. She also directed the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar. She taught an Atelier course at Princeton University with Elevator Repair Service and has lectured at Yale University, CT; Wesleyan University, CT; New York University, NY; University of the Arts, PA; and Xavier University, LA. In Spring 2020, she taught a course at Harvard University on theater and social practice, and she served as the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University in Fall 2021.

KJ Abudu is a curator, writer, and scholar-critic based between New York, London, and Lagos. Informed by anti/post/de-colonial critique, African philosophy, and black radical thought, his writings and exhibitions focus on critical art and discursive practices that respond to the world-historical conditions produced by racial/colonial capitalist modernity.

Hamedine Kane, a Senegalese-Mauritanian artist and director born in 1983, lives between Brussels, Paris and Dakar. Trained as a librarian, he studied the book trade in Paris before moving to Brussels in 2004. His artistic practice explores themes of migration and borders through film, photography, performance and installation. In his work, Kane sees borders not as symbols, limits or factors of impossibility, but as places of passage and transformation. Co-founder of "L'École des Mutants," he focuses on the transmission of post-colonial knowledge. He is represented by Selebe Yoon.