Imani Congdon is a researcher and archivist whose work focuses on the communal, political, and organizational functions of the print shop, as well as its status as a site of innovation in the fine arts space. Her involvement in the RBPMW started with an archival internship in the summer of 2024, and since then her work has supported their 2024 exhibition Where We At, Black Women Artists. Now! as well as Creative Graphic Community: Oral Histories Project, produced in conjunction with Hauser & Wirth Institute, and she is set to curate the Workshop's 2026 exhibition Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco. She contributed to the upcoming catalogue raisonné The Editions of Robert Kipniss, 1967 - 2023, set to be published in the Fall of 2025.
Imani holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College CUNY and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts NYU, and was the recipient of the Institute’s Harriet Griffin Fellowship in 2023. Her 2025 thesis, “An Unrelieved Blackness: Charles White and Charles Keller’s Print Work in the Workshop of Graphic Arts Folio Negro: USA,” focuses on the Workshop of Graphic Arts--a politically left print workshop established in postwar New York--and its 1949 print folio “Negro: USA,” an ensemble project which sought to illustrate the historical plight of Black people in the United States through a lens of labor solidarity.
