Since 2019, Ozer has worked as a curator with The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), an interdisciplinary cultural laboratory founded by Claudia Rankine. The name “racial imaginary” is meant to capture the enduring truth of race: it is an invented concept that nevertheless operates with extraordinary force in our daily lives, limiting our movements and imaginations. We understand that perceptions, resources, rights, and lives themselves flow along racial lines that confront some of us with restrictions and give others uninterrogated power. These lines are drawn and maintained by white dominance even as individuals and communities alike continually challenge them.

Because no sphere of life is untouched by race, the Institute gathers under its aegis an interdisciplinary range of artists, writers, knowledge-producers, and activists. It convenes a cultural laboratory in which the racial imaginaries of our time and place are engaged, read, countered, contextualized, and demystified.

In addition to working with other institute members on the mission and structuring of wider projects, Ozer worked with a small team to oversee and execute the curation of two exhibitions with the David Kordansky Gallery.

Learn more about TRII here.

Image: Installation view of All Opposing Players at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022