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May Makki

May Makki is an independent curator and writer specializing in performance, moving-image, and sound-based practices. Focusing on new commissions and working closely with living artists, she is particularly invested in the infrastructural possibilities of exhibition-making and considering the communities, economies, and technologies that develop alongside works of art.

She is Co-Curator of the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Biennale, where she commissioned public works by Agustina Woodgate and Yussef Agbo-Ola and stewarded major loans by artists including Petrit Halilaj, Nour Mobarak, Nancy Mounir, and Daniel Lind-Ramos.

From 2022 to 2025, she was part of the curatorial team of the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she curated exhibitions and screenings such as Martin Beck: Last Night, An Evening with Haig Aivazian, and the collection display of works by Tala Madani.

Previously, she served in curatorial and research roles at Abrons Arts Center, the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, and MoMA PS1. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA from the University of Chicago.

may.makki@gmail.com

Writing

2026

Press text for Anahita Razmi Solo Show at Carbon 12.

2025

“A Call to Radical Imagination: Karen Finley in Conversation with May Makki,” [interview]. Topical Cream Magazine.

2024

“Kamal AlJafari’s A Fidai Film,” [article], Screen Slate

“Visiting the Loft, Where Music and Dancing are Sacred,” [interview], MoMA Magazine

2023

“Jonathas de Andrade’s Olho da Rua (Out Loud),” [interview], MoMA Magazine

“Rabih Mroué’s Pixelated Revolution,” [interview], MoMA Magazine

“A Studio in the Studio: An Interview with Lawrence Abu Hamdan,” [interview], MoMA Magazine

“In the Studio with Haig Aivazian,” [interview], Art21

2022

“Coleman Collins at Brief Histories,” [exhibition review], Art in America

“Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abu-Rahme at MoMA,” [article], Screen Slate

“Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête,” [exhibition review], H-Net

“One Work: Etel Adnan at the Guggenheim,” [artwork focus], Art in America