Congratulations to singer and composer Nathalie Joachim, whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York has named to its 2024–25 MoMA Scholars in Residence cohort, along with Saloni Mathur and Joseph M. Pierce. The program invites three acclaimed, inspiring thinkers to join the Museum for a one-year term to pursue projects and research initiatives that contribute to new understandings of modern and contemporary art. This is the third class of MoMA Scholars.

The MoMA Scholars in Residence program includes both scholars and makers who offer fresh perspectives on the history of modern and contemporary art. This residency supports the work of three thought leaders with demonstrated records of achievement to pursue research with access to the Museum’s collections, archives, and library, and in dialogue with staff. The 2024–25 cohort was selected with the guidance of a review committee comprising external and internal members: Huey Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Leah Dickerman (MoMA), Ines Katzenstein (MoMA), Michelle Kuo (MoMA), Dylan Robinson (University of British Columbia), and Crystal Williams (Rhode Island School of Design).

Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated performer and composer who is regularly commissioned to write for orchestra, instrumental and vocal ensembles, dance, and interdisciplinary theater. She is also an assistant professor of composition at Princeton University. The Haitian-American artist has been called “a fresh and invigorating cross-cultural voice” (The Nation), and “powerful and unpretentious” (New York Times). In her practice, Joachim is committed to storytelling as a form of human connection and cultural awareness. Recent and upcoming highlights include new works for the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Grant Park Music Festival, and more. Her album Fanm d’Ayiti, based on an evening-length work for flute, voice, string quartet, and electronics, celebrates and explores her Haitian heritage, and received a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. Joachim’s sophomore album, Ki moun ou ye, an intimate examination of ancestral connection and self, was co-released by Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam Records earlier this year, and deemed “one of the year’s most creatively and personally ambitious albums” (SPIN). Joachim is a United States Artist Fellow and cofounder of the critically acclaimed duo Flutronix. She is an alumnus of the Juilliard School and the New School.