Qiana Mestrich (b.1977, NYC) is an interdisciplinary artist, photo historian, writer and digital marketing professional who lives and works between Brooklyn and New York’s Hudson Valley. Born to immigrant parents from Panama and Croatia, Mestrich's autobiographical artwork and research engages issues around Black, mixed-race identity, motherhood/mothering and women’s corporate labor. A graduate of the Bard College MFA program, Mestrich has been exhibited worldwide including the international Triennial RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain, the BRIC Biennial: Volume III and London Art Fair’s Photo50. Her work is held in the Peggy Cooper Cafritz collection and other private collections in the United States. In 2022, Mestrich was a recipient of the Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories grant for her project on the history of women of color in the corporate workplace. Knowledge sharing and community building is a vital part of Mestrich’s practice. In 2007 she founded Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History, an arts initiative that aims to diversify the medium’s history by advocating for photographers of color. Dodge & Burn began as a blog and from 2014-2022 functioned as a monthly critique group meeting in-person and virtually. Her forthcoming book based on 35 of the blog’s photographer interviews will be published March 2025 by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.