Part of event series: Visual & Critical Studies Forum | 2020/2021 Series
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Shylah Pacheco Hamilton
CCA Faculty, Chair, Critical Ethnic Studies Program; Assistant Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
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Shylah Pacheco Hamilton is an Afrosurrealist filmmaker whose creative research interests meet at the crossroads of experimental video, decolonial feminisms, digital diasporas, and ritual performance.
Selected exhibitions include The Hague, Dok Leipzig, CinePalium Fest, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. SFMOMA, SomArts, Oakland Underground Film Festival, International Black Women's Film Festival, and The San Francisco Black Film Festival. Her work was also featured in the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation's Power, Protest & Resistance: The Art of Revolution exhibition in NYC. Shylah lives in Oakland and is a member of the artist collective, The Black Woman Is God and the filmmaking collective, Filmmakers Unite (FU). Her writings can be found in e-flux architecture, La Tolteca Magazine, Communication Arts, Iyanifa Woman of Wisdom: Insights from the Priestesses of the Ifa Orisha Tradition, Their Stories, and Plight for the Divine Feminine and ColorTheory (Wolfman Books).
Shylah is also chair of the Critical Ethnic Studies program, co-founder of Decolonial School, and sits on the board of The Edwidge Dandicat Society.
BFA, CCA; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MA, California Institute of Integral Studies
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