Adam HajYahia is Associate Curator at CHRA and Studio Manager as part of the Mellon Foundation Award to Bard College to support the work of Tania El Khoury. Adam is a researcher, writer, and curator. His research and writing focus on the relationships between aesthetics and politics, capitalism and desire, anticolonialism, and negative speculation ​through contemporary art structures. His curatorial and pedagogical work has been presented in various galleries, museums, and educational institutions, such as The Mosaic Rooms, The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mophradat, The Berlin Biennale 12, MoMA PS1, the Harvard Law School, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and Yale Law School. Adam is a graduate of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts at CHRA.