Tannis Nielsen (b. Red Deer, Alberta, 1970) is an Anishnaabe-Red River Métis multidisciplinary artist and academic. Her work explores Indigenous decolonization methodologies, oral histories, feminism, and the relative investigations between Indigenous science and quantum physics. Nielsen has been an advisory member to Native Women in the Arts and the past President of the Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts.

Ala Ebtekar (b. Berkley, California, United States, 1978) is an Iranian-American artist whose work explores light as a concept and a medium. His works often require slow photographic exposure times that draw attention back to the passing of time. He combines photography with other art techniques, including bookmaking and painting. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as internationally.

Sanaz Mazinani (b. Tehran, Iran, 1978) is an artist, academic, and educator based in Toronto. She works across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and large-scale multimedia installations. Mazinani creates informational objects that invite us to rethink how we see. Her work has been shown internationally and is held in public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Aga Khan Museum.

Bita Pourvash is the Associate Curator at the Aga Khan Museum. Since joining in 2012, she has been involved in numerous exhibitions and curatorial projects, including co-curating Light: Visionary Perspectives (2024), Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th-century Iran (2018) and curating contemporary installations Cultured Pallets (2023) and Faig Ahmed: Dissolving Order (2019). In her role, Bita oversees the Museum Collection’s biannual themed installations. she has contributed to several exhibition catalogues and delivered lectures on the Museum’s collection. Prior to joining the Museum, she worked as a researcher at the Royal Ontario Museum and as a lecturer at York University, Semnan University, and the Higher Education Center for Iranian Heritage.

Marianne Fenton is an artist and art history scholar who joined the Aga Khan Museum in 2017. She completed her Masters in Fine Arts at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and holds an MA in Contemporary Art History from OCAD University, Toronto. Since joining the Aga Khan Museum, she has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, including: Skate Girls of Kabul (2017), Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From (2019), State of Play (2021), Ghazaleh Avarzamani’s Terms and Conditions Apply* (2021), Afghanistan My Love (2022), and Shezad Dawood: Night in the Garden of Love (2023/4).