Atheel Elmalik

Atheel Elmalik was in residence at LUMA Arles in september 2022.

Atheel Elmalik is a thinker, writer and filmmaker committed to the work of rendering black and African diasporic life on screen with specificity. She is interested in exploring liberated relationships of people to land and one another through stories of movement and migration, intergenerational healing, and connection to the sentience of the more than human world. 

Atheel received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Stanford University where she focused her degree on African and Visual Studies. She then held curatorial fellowships at art institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Media and Performance Art department, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. After spending the last two years assisting and managing artist Arthur Jafa’s studio in Los Angeles, she is currently developing her first narrative film through Jafa’s newly formed film studio, SunHaus, which she will be working on while in Arles.