Nadia Misir is an artist born and raised in South Ozone Park, Queens. Her practice reflects on relationships between diaspora, gentrification, grief, Guyanese identity and the way that histories of oppression reveal themselves in unexpected and mundane moments. For Jamaica Flux 2021, the Queens-based artist will host public programming and collaborate with local residents to create a ’zine that radically retells the history of Jamaica as a neighborhood, as well as a photographic chapbook of lyric essays that speak directly to urban planning documents, such as the Jamaica Now Action Plan.

Misir’s writing has been published in Poetry, Kweli Journal, Papercuts, Open City Magazine, No, Dear Mag, and QC Voices.