Press
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“American Artists and Reproductive Justice,” Gagosian Quarterly. Summer 2023. pp.114-119. Written by Salomé Gómez-Upegui.
“‘On Living Archives’: Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices,” In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing. The Clark Art Institute. 2022. Interview by Caitlin Woosley.
“Discovering How Black Women Might Forge a Path to Freedom,” Hyperallergic. 2022. Written by Seph Rodney.
“Tsedaye Makonnen’s Astral Sea: Critical Refugee Studies and the Black Mediterranean,” American Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 2, 2022, pp. 441-452. Written by Emily Hue.
“Astral Sea,” Women and Migration(s) II. 2022. Edited by Kalia Brooks, Cheryl Finley, Ellyn Toscano, Deborah Willis.
“Tsedaye Makonnen’s Art Addresses Reproductive Healthcare Inequalities Affecting Black Women,” Artsy. 2022. Written by Ayanna Dozier.
“Dyschronics,” Artspace New Haven Catalogue. 2022. Organized by Lisa Dent and Laurel McLaughlin.
“Reclamation, Recipes, Remedies, Rituals,” National Museum of Women in the Arts. 2022.
“Issue 132 - The Black in the Mediterranean Blue,” Transition Magazine. 2021. Edited by Wole Soyinka and Alessandra Di Maio.
“Issue 131,” Transition Magazine. 2021.
“Contemporary Artists Reflect on Life in America,” Vogue Magazine. 2020.
“Outstanding, Girl, You Knock Me Out: Ayana Evans and Tsedaye Makonnen Interviewed by Jessica Lanay,” BOMB Magazine. 2020.
“What Does It Mean to Exhibit Black Excellence?,” Hyperallergic. 2020.
“Entanglements: 007 - Ayana Evans and Tsedaye Makonnen,” Dirt.
“The People Issue 2019: Nineteen individuals who make life in D.C. more interesting tell us their stories,” Washington City Paper. 2019.
“‘Absolutely Vile’ or ‘Powerful’? Christoph Buchel’s Migrant Boat is the Most Divisive Work at the Venice Biennale,” Artnet News. 2019.
“The Privilege of Proximity / Venice Biennale’s Sinking Ship,” The Seen: Chicago’s International Online Journal of Conemporary & Modern Art. 2019.
“Hyphen American,” curated by Tsedaye Makonnen and Rex Delafkaran. Gallery 102. Feb 2018.
“How An Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony Sparked Conversation About Changes in Shaw,” The Kojo Nmadi Show. 2016.