Press & Video
Dreaming of Art, Place, and Community
Majeed joins Bridgespan Group’s series Dreaming in Color alongside Theaster Gates, artist, founder and executive director at Rebuild Foundation; Michelle Boone, president and CEO at the Poetry Foundation; and Marshall Hatch Jr., co-founder and executive director at MAAFA Redemption Project to explore “what becomes possible when artists are recognized not simply as creators, but as architects of possibility?” Hear the full episode.
July 15, 2026
Chicago Exhibition Weekend: ICI Conversations
Majeed discusses the South Side Community Art Center's historical role in supporting the careers of Black artists in Chicago and its evolution into the future in conversation with current executive director Monique Brinkman-Hill.
September 19, 2025
Reset with Sasha Ann-Simons: Remember Bronzeville’s Mecca Flats
Majeed discusses for Mecca, an inflatable installation of Bronzeville’s former Mecca Flats created by the artist collective Floating Museum. Alongside Rebekah Coffman, curator of religion and community history at the Chicago History Museum, Majeed highlights the cultural importance of the Mecca Flats, the process of creating an inflatable building, and the ongoing mission of drawing an audience to highlight communal narratives.
July 15, 2025
“Blanc gallery celebrates 15 years in Chicago's historic centre of Black enterprise” in The Art Newspaper, written by Jacqui Palumbo
Majeed speaks about the 15 year anniversary of Blanc Gallery and his 2013 Shacks and Shanties project exhibited there.
April 23, 2025
“In Chicago for Expo? Don’t Miss These 12 Must-See Exhibitions,” in Cultured, written by Stephanie Wong
Article highlights Majeed’s first solo show with DOCUMENT Gallery and his hand-carved pine and cedar wall sculptures.
April 21, 2025
Voices: A WTTW News Community Conversation – Exploring Chicago’s Arts Scene
Explore Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and creative communities in a live virtual conversation with Janine Mileaf, executive director and chief curator of the Arts Club of Chicago; and Laura-Caroline de Lara, director of the DePaul Art Museum. Moderated by Marc Vitali of WTTW News, who is the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation Arts Correspondent.
December 16, 2024
WTTW Chicago Tonight
Creative Impulse (works by Robert Johnson and E. Nix) at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art feature on Chicago Tonight. Interview with the show's curator, Faheem Majeed, occurs at 51:34 minute mark.
April 1, 2019
Faheem Majeed on Chicago’s Artistic Legacies
Highlighting the work of Faheem Majeed, who uses the city's spaces and historical antecedents to inform his practice. Produced by Spirit of Space, in collaboration with Art Design Chicago.
November 19, 2018
The Black Metropolis of Art
Hosted by Faheem Majeed, subjects include: painter Archibald Motley, Jr.; sculptor Marion Perkins; The Wall of Respect, a 1967 mural created by the Organization of Black American Culture featuring Ernest Dawkins and his band; women in the Black Mural Movement; and ceramicist Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly of the women’s artist collective Sapphire & Crystals; and painter Kerry James Marshall. View Full Episode
October 12, 2018
Harris Bank Chicago Works Presents: Faheem Majeed. Museum of Contemporary Art
For his first solo museum exhibition, he questions how space becomes place, and, further, how places can foster a sense of home and belonging. The MCA—a public institution and, by extension, a type of public space—becomes the armature for the artist’s investigation.
March 10 - August 16, 2015