Negarra A. Kudumu is an interlocutrice working at the intersection of art and healing with a focus on contemporary art from the Pacific Northwest, Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas.

Negarra is a full time entrepreneur who splits her time between the art and healing worlds. In her art practice, she functions as a curator, writer, and public speaker. Negarra’s recent curatorial expertise includes the 2022 Neddy Award Exhibition, a group exhibition at the 2021 ARCO Madrid art fair for the Lisbon-based art gallery MOVART, and three exhibitions during her tenure as curator at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle (CoCA) featuring works by artists Selma Waldman, Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, and Rajaa Gharbi respectively. In 2017 and 2018, Negarra self-produced a series of online exhibitions featuring emerging and established artists based in the United States, Canada, and The Netherlands titled, Curatorial Lab.

Negarra’s writing has been published in notable volumes such as Atlantica: Contemporary Art From Angola and Its Diaspora (Hangar Books, 2018) and Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art From the Walther Collection (Steidl/The Walther Collection, 2017). She has also contributed essays to exhibition catalogs, gallery publications, and art world magazines in the United States and Canada.

Negarra regularly lectures, participates in talks, and moderates panels on various topics related to contemporary art. Over the past five years, she has been invited to speak in Calgary, Toronto, Amsterdam, Harare, and Venice on a range of topics including the intersections between art and healing, art education, and alternative artistic practice. Most recently, she participated in the second Loophole of Retreat conference, curated by Rashida Bumbray, in connection with Simone Leigh’s participation in the 59th Venice Biennale.

Through her healing practice, Crossroad Healing Arts, Negarra works as a coach, educator, and content producer leveraging the potency of modalities such as reiki, hypnotherapy and coaching together with fundamental principles of African rooted spiritual traditions to support clients on their healing journey. Negarra received her MA from Leiden University (2006) and her BA from Dartmouth College (2001).

Negarra lives and works in Seattle, WA.