New York, NY
She/Her
Starasea Nidalia Camara is a curator and scholar whose practice centers Black cultural and artistic production throughout the Americas. With a focus on Central America, the Caribbean, and the Southern United States, Camara looks to patterns of matrilineal migration as a method for considering the intersections of Afro-Indigeneity, Crip theory, and Black feminist studies. In her current role as the Curatorial and Public Engagement Assistant at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York City, Camara supports curatorial projects and leads audience initiatives at the institute’s Tribeca headquarters. She has held fellowships with the Emerging Curators Institute in Minneapolis, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Modern Art, where she supported the organization of Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape (2023) and Studio Sound: Sable Elyse Smith (2024). As the inaugural Souls Grown Deep Foundation intern at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, she curated the exhibition In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art (2020), and served as a research associate for the Foundation’s development of the Gee’s Bend Heritage Trail in Boykin, AL. Camara's writing has been featured in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s magazine, Studio, and her curatorial work has been highlighted by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Architectural Digest. Her second guest-curated exhibition, Whiles I Yet Live: Matriarchy and Generational Exchange in Gee’s Bend (2025) is set to open at The National Quilt Museum in Kentucky. Born in San Diego, CA, to a Panamanian, Puerto Rican, and Black American family, and currently based in Queens, Starasea studied African Diasporic History; Visual Culture at the University of Minnesota.
