Asha Iman Veal
C.V.
Faculty
Portfolio links

Exhibitions
01—LOVE: Still Not the Lesser
02—Beautiful Diaspora /
You Are Not the Lesser Part
03—Shift: Music, Culture, Context
04—RAISIN (vol 1)
05—Martine Gutierrez
06—Beyond the Realm of Fantasy /
Everyone Wants to Know More  
07—DREAM
08—The Tokyo Show:
Black & Brown Are Beautiful
09—Preview 9:
A Boldness to Dare and Try
10—LATITUDE Chicago
11—Black Creativity 2025
12—Portraits as Visual Repositories
13—Design Show @ Block 37
14—Arts for Illinois
COVID 19 Relief Fund
15—New Work 2016
16—Solomon Salim Moore

School of the
Art Institute of Chicago
17—MFA Graduate Studio Seminar
18—Curating in the Expanded Field
19—Spheres of Cultural Valuation
20—Being a Woman of Color
in the Arts
21—Artist Self-Promotion
22—MFA Graduate Projects

Texts
23—Jess T. Dugan & Charlotte
Cotton: Love Pictures
24—Diasporas are the Landscape
25—Here, There: New Perspectives
on the Collection
26—Dark Matter
27—Ground Floor Biennial
28—emerge
29—The Places We’ve Been  
30—Apsaalooke: Art & Tradition
31—LOVE: Still Not the Lesser
32—Beautiful Diaspora/
You Are Not the Lesser Part
33—RAISIN (vol 1)

Art Education
34—A Day at the Shore: Ecologists
and Environment Community Day
35—Curating LOVE: Jorge A Escobar
and Kalen Wing-Ki Lee
36—A New Decade of Dance Films:
Kierah KIKI King
and Patricia Nguyen
37—Artist Talk: Jorge A Escobar
and Yuge Zhou
38—Book Circle: All About Love
by bell hooks. Feat. Megha Ralapati
and Anwulika Anigbo
39—Focal Point Podcast:
Alicia Bruce and Tom Merillion
40—Printed Matter EXPO
Art Week: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
and Cecil McDonald Jr.
41—Beyond the Lens:
Sunil Gupta
42—Focal Point Live:
Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani
and Jason Reblando
43—Beyond the Lens:
Ngadi Smart
44—Beyond the Lens: Citlali Fabian,
Damon Locks, and Johny Pitts
45—A Photo History of  Justice:
Special Presentation by Loretta J. Ross
46—RAISIN (vol.1)
47—What Does Democracy
Look Like? (Part II)
48—In Conversation: Artist Kelvin Haizel
and Dr Robert Hanserd
49—Distance Between Words:
Culture, Language, Family. Featuring
Kandis Friesen, Maryam Taghavi,
Ashley Freeby
50—Many Roles of a Global Curator,
featuring BISI SILVA of the Centre
for Contemporary Art, Lagos
51—Expression of the Korean Ethos:
True-view Landscape of Late Joseon
Period 17~20th Century, Feat.
YI SONG-MI” (Prof. Emerita at the
Academy of Korean Studies)
52—The Braid / Talking Whiteboards
by Adelheid Mers
53—The Places We’ve Been
Feat. Justin Nordic Thunder Howard,
Lisa Hsia, Colin Souness
54—The Places We’ve Been, Feat.
Daniel Ketchum editor at
MARVEL Comics & Derek Helwig
producer at The Amazing Race
55—Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow
chief and historian of the
Apsaalooke Crow Nation
56—V-Day Until the Violence Stops
city-wide festival
57—In Conversation:
Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani,
Jessica Chou, Farah Salem







© Asha Iman Veal — ’26
All original images courtesy
of the artists. Installation photo/
video credits: Kim Becker,
Jonathan Castillo, Tom Nowak,
Sylvie Harris, Cody Schlabaugh,
Tom Van Eynde.