Kelly Nayaase-Naxhiñaa’ Krugman

Kelly Nayaase-Naxhiñaa’ Krugman (b. 1994, New Jersey) is a Zapotec-Jewish/Mexican-American independent curator, cultural worker, and editor. Her practice centers storytelling, sound, research, and collaboration as a means of channeling embodied and archival knowledge across temporalities and geographies, in pursuit of social and spiritual repair. In partnership with artists and transdisciplinary makers, she engages spaces of epistemic exchange and anti-hegemonic disobedience. Refusing the impositions of dominant histories, their work foregrounds diasporic in-betweens, attentive to ancestral memory—where relation is a method, unlearning a ground, and art a gesture of meaning-making to reimagine otherwise. She is a curator with SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas in Berlin and is co-founder and co-curator of SAVVYZΛΛR radio.

She has co-curated interdisciplinary multi-format projects such as STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES (2024-2025), EYES, COME BACK (2025) with Setareh Shahbazi, CURES: Chronic Promises (2024), 4+3=1, There Are Stories to Be Forged for Common Denominators to Come Forth and Social Balance to Be Restored (2022), among others.