Beya Othmani

Beya Othmani is an Algerian-Tunisian curator based in the United States. She currently serves as the C-MAP Africa Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where she conducts research on late 20th-century art in Africa, develops programs, and co-edits the museum’s digital platform post.moma.org. Her recent curatorial projects include M’barek Bouhchichi: Black Seeds at Selma Feriani Gallery in Tunis (2025); the three-part exhibition series Cantando Bajito at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York (2024); Fella Tamzali: Arcanes at rhizome Gallery, Algiers (2024); and the 35th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2023), among others.
Othmani was the recipient of the CAORC/Andrew Mellon Art History Fellowship (2020–2024) at the American Center for Maghrebi Studies (CEMAT) in Tunis. She received the Hyperallergic Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators (2023) and was a Curator-in-Residence at the Delfina Foundation in London that same year.

Contributions

post Presents: Assemblies in Uncertain Times

This public program brought together Nancy Adajania, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Frida Muenala from Mullu for an evening of inquiry into forms and practices of gathering. The speakers, who represent diverse practices in the cultural fields—from art making to curation to institutional leadership—and operate across vast geographies, unpacked their different approaches to assemblies. Among the…