about

The Bee Kingdom is a project by artist and writer Joy Amina Garnett. Drawing on materials left behind by her late grandfather, the Egyptian Romantic poet Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955), she explores lost and forgotten histories across different media. She is completing a family memoir.

Garnett is the art director of Evergreen Review. From 2005 to 2016, she served as the arts editor at the Duke journal Cultural Politics. Her art and writings have appeared in an array of publications that include: Rusted Radishes, Full Blede, Ibraaz, Art21 Magazine, Virilio and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook (powerHouse Books 2016). She has exhibited her work at the Whitney Museum, MoMA–PS1, FLAG Art Foundation, Artists Space, Smack Mellon, White Columns (NY); the Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland (OR), Boston University Art Gallery, National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), and the Witte Zaal (Ghent, Belgium). Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), Altria, and The West Collection (Oaks, PA). Garnett has received grants from Anonymous Was a Woman, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Wellcome Trust, and the Chipstone Foundation. She was awarded a 2019-20 SHIFT Residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY.

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