Nydia A Swaby

Nydia A Swaby is a Black feminist artist, researcher and curator. Her practice engages archives, autoethnography, photography, the moving image and the imagination to explore the gendered, diasporic and affective dimensions of Black being and becoming. In addition to curating artistic programmes, she creates visual narratives, research and performance texts. Nydia is a member of the editorial board for the journal Feminist Review and co-edited the ‘Archives’ issue (July 2020).

Nydia has a PhD from the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS and previously worked at the ICA, London and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC. Nydia was the Caird Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum and UCL, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (2021-2022), and she is a member of the advisory board for the Atlantic Worlds Gallery at the National Maritime Museum.

Nydia’s book, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, will be published by Lawrence Wishart in October 2024 as part of LW’s Radical Black Women book series. Her artist film, daughters of diaspora, will be screened at the Singapore International Photography Festival 2024.