2022 Brooks International Fellows Announced

Tate has announced the two successful candidates for the 2022 Brooks International Fellowship Programme. The fellowship, now in its ninth year, will enable two visual arts professionals to work alongside Tate colleagues for six months while participating in a residency at Delfina Foundation 

Over 100 applications were received and the successful candidates for the 2022 fellowships are Mandy Merzaban and Tina Barouti, PhD. 

Mandy Merzaban (Canada/Egypt) is the recipient of the Tate Research and Interpretation Fellowship. She will explore how Tate has interpreted the works of art in its own collection, focusing on themes of racism, imperialism, power dynamics and language. Mandy is an artist, writer and curator who has researched and exhibited modern and contemporary art of the Arabic speaking world. Previously she was the founding curator of the Barjeel Art Foundation in the UAE and a graduate of MIT. 

Tina Barouti, PhD (USA) is the recipient of the Tate Modern Curatorial Fellowship and during her residency will focus on works of art by northern African artists in Tate’s collection, exploring their relationship to late-20th-century decolonisation and Pan-Africanism movements. Tina is a Los Angeles-based art historian and curator interested in colonialism’s impact on visual arts in Africa and West Asia. Currently, Barouti is a Lecturer in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a curatorial consultant for Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.