Adam Khalil

Adam Khalil, a member of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is an artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation and transgression. Khalil is the co-director and co-editor of the feature documentary Inaate/Se (it shines a certain way. to a certain place. it flies. falls, 2016) which premiered as the closing night film of the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight Film Festival, and the experimental documentary short The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2018) which premiered at Sundance. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of Cousins Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited/screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including but not limited to a 2021 Creative Capital Award, 2020 Herb Alpert Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Jerome Artist Fellowship and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.

He is the co-director of Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (Mountainfilm 2026) with Zack Khalil.