Farrah Karapetian

Farrah Karapetian  is a Trinidadian writer, artist, and scholar. She is the 2025 Nieuwe Instituut/Tilting Axis Fellow. Her project, ‘Present Continuous’, explores Caribbean architectural and sartorial cultures towards developing a sustainable practice of archiving contemporary Caribbean masquerades. She is the Creative Director and Principal Designer at the Dolly Mas Visual and Performing Arts Company. She was previously Art Administrator at New Local Space (NLS), an art studio and gallery based in Kingston, Jamaica. In 2020 McIntyre was part of the faculty for La Pràctica Artists Residency, and an advisor for the NLS, Curatorial, and Art Writing Fellowship. Her essays have been published in Caribbean Quarterly, The Journal of West Indian Literature, Tout Moun Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies, and Sargasso Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture. McIntyre is a postgraduate in Cultural Studies (practice-based, Visual Art) at the University of the West Indies.