Nathalie Joachim, 2024–25 MoMA Scholar in Residence. Photo: Erin Patrice O’Brien

Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated performer and composer who is regularly commissioned to write for orchestra, instrumental and vocal ensembles, dance, and interdisciplinary theater. She is also an assistant professor of composition at Princeton University. The Haitian-American artist has been called “a fresh and invigorating cross cultural voice” (The Nation), and “powerful and unpretentious” (The New York Times). In her practice, Joachim is committed to storytelling as a form of human connection and cultural awareness. Recent and upcoming highlights include new works for the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Grant Park Music Festival, and more. Her album Fanm d’Ayiti, based on an evening-length work for flute, voice, string quartet, and electronics, celebrates and explores her Haitian heritage, and received a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. Joachim’s sophomore album, Ki moun ou ye, an intimate examination of ancestral connection and self, was co-released by Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam Records in early 2024, and deemed “one of the year’s most creatively and personally ambitious albums” (SPIN). Joachim is a United States Artist Fellow and cofounder of the critically acclaimed duo Flutronix. She is an alumnus of the Juilliard School and the New School.

Saloni Mathur, 2024–25 MoMA Scholar in Residence

Saloni Mathur received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York, and is currently a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of interest include modern and contemporary South Asian art, focusing in particular on issues of migration, diaspora, and postcolonial criticism. She has been a pioneering leader in her field over decades and her work has been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, the Clark Art Institute, the Getty Research Institute, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the Bard Graduate Center, and the Yale Center for British Art. She is author and editor/co-editor of five books, including India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (2007), The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora (2011), No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia (with Kavita Singh, 2015), and A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art (2019).

Joseph Pierce, 2024–25 MoMA Scholar in Residence. Photo: Sebastián Freire

Joseph M. Pierce is an associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University and is the inaugural director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative there. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890–1910 (2019) and Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (2025), and is co-editor of Políticas del amor: Derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur (2018) and the 2021 special issue of Gay and Lesbian Studies Quarterly, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable.” Along with SJ Norman (Wiradjuri), he is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.