The Museum of Contemporary Photography and School of Visual Arts at Columbia College Chicago proudly present the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts & Social Issues exhibition featuring 2025-2026 fellow Lali Khalid.

Join us on Thursday, June 25 from 6:00-8:30 pm for an artist dialogue and exhibition reception. Khalid will be in conversation with MoCP Community Engagement Fellow Alayna N. Pernell about her practice, project, and experience working with community organizations as part of her year-long fellowship.

Following the dialogue, all audience participants and guests are invited to continue questions and conversation over light bites and beverages in the Glass Curtain Gallery.

Khalid’s exhibition will be on view June 25-October 3, 2026 at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery with exclusive programming during Filter Photo Festival.

In partnership with CAIR Chicago, Khalid’s multimedia project of video, audio, and photography represents personal narratives within Muslim culture and the everyday by providing a broader perspective beyond stereotypes and inviting conversation on belonging, resilience, and the importance of representation.

About the artist:
Mehreen (Lali) Khalid (Pakistani, b. 1980)
lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Khalid’s interdisciplinary art practice explores the interstices between diaspora, displacement, identity, memory, and migration. Working across photography, video, and text, Khalid engages with the nuanced dynamics of belonging, family, loss, and the quiet rituals of home often occupying the space between the public and private. Informed by personal experience, Khalid creates bodies of work that reflect on love and resilience.

Khalid’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her first monograph, Home. In my heart, beating far away, was published in 2021 by Artvoices Books, and Khalid’s latest book, Letters to Azan, is scheduled to be released in June 2026 by Workshop Arts.

She has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow for the Penland School of Craft Winter Residency (2026); recipient of the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues from the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (2025-2026); and Fulbright Scholarship (2007). Khalid obtained her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and BFA in Printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. She is currently serving as a Visiting Artist in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Support for this fellowship:
Thank you to Diane & Rod Dammeyer for their generosity in establishing this fellowship, an endowed fund, with Columbia College Chicago.

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