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EDUCATION

Cranbrook Academy of Art,

Master of Fine Arts

Sculpture Specialization

Elective Studio in Print Media

Elective Studio in Metals

University of Waterloo,

Bachelor of Arts

Honours Fine Arts & Business

Studio Specialization with Distinction

AWARDS

2023 Gilbert Fellowship for Cranbrook Academy of Arts

2023 Robert C. Larson Venture Award

2022 Gilbert Fellowship for Cranbrook Academy of Arts

2021 OAC Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Individuals

2020 OAC Exhibition Grant

2020 Barbara Roberts Memorial Fund

2020 Designlines Love Tag Award

2018 Nancy-Lou Patterson Award

2017 McGallarian Excellence Award

2017 University of Waterloo Fine Arts Sculpture Award

2017 University of Waterloo Fine Arts Distinguished Student Award

2017 University of Waterloo Most Versatile Student Award

SOLO SHOWS

2023, Za3'roota, Forum Gallery, Detroit MI

2022, Not Traumatic Enough for a Shock Blanket, Grebel Gallery, Waterloo ON

2021, Commuting & Other Lonely Thoughts, PLATFORM Centre, Winnipeg MB

2021, Commuting & Other Lonely Thoughts, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary AB

2021, Commuting & Other Lonely Thoughts, 918 Bathurst Arts, Media & Education Centre, Toronto ON

2021, In Colouring Grief, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto ON

2019, Aphasia, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, ON

2018, Colour Me Ungrateful,  S.A.I.L. Waterloo, ON

ALTERNATIVE SPACES

2024, Niche, Public installation in Cranbrook Academy Campus, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2021, In Mapping Out Crows, Interactive Sound Work, HXOUSE Website

2021, Commuting and Other Lonely Thoughts, Text Messaging Number in Toronto Subways & Buses

2020, Recipes of Care, Instagram Posts and Collectable Postcards in Collaboration with Abedar Kamgari for Hearth Garage

2020, Colour Me Shocked, Incoming! A Pandemic Colouring Book for Hamilton Artists INC

2017, The Pain Never Ends for the Leg Gallery

SELECT GROUP SHOWS

2024, Ihsan, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB

2024, Thread that Tangles but doesn't Knot, Culture Days Ontario, Toronto ON

2024, Bootleg, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2024, Against the Grain-I Stood My Ground, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx NY

2024, Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2023, Queer Show, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2023, Conflation, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2023, Behind the Scenes, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2023, Conflation, Forum Gallery, Detroit MI

2023, Tall Taller Space, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2022, Diasporic Dysplasia, Bronx River Art Centre, Bronx NY

2022, Space to Say, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL

2021, In Colouring Grief, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto ON

2020, Fibreworks, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON

2020, to say to you, Art Incubate, Waterloo ON

2020, The Spaces that Hold Us, ACRE Projects, Chicago IL

2020, Friends & Lovers, Button Factory, Waterloo ON

2020, Emotional Objects, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto ON

2020, Come Up to My Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON

2019, Introspection, Scarborough Arts Centre, Scarborough ON 

2019, Hard Twist 14: Entwined, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2019, Through the Body / With the Body, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal QC

2019, Stubiennial, ACRE Residency, Steuben WI

2019, Brush with Art, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON

2019, What We Know To Be True, Hamilton Artists Inc.'s James Gallery, Hamilton, ON

2019, What We Take, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019, Brush with Art, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON
2019, I Blink My Eyes to Keep the Time, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto ON

2018, The Next Big Thing, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga ON

2018, 26 Days, Project Space, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff AB

2018, Brush with Art, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON

2018, Future Shapers, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON

2018, An Evening of Interactive Art & Performance University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON

2017, Unsettling, The Guild, Toronto ON

2017, Defying Conventions, TEDx UW, Waterloo ON

2017, Fresh Paint/New Construction, Art Mur, Montreal QC

2017, Embracing Refugees to Celebrate our Humanity, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener ON

2017, Ignite, The University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo ON

2017, Unsettling Canada, The Artery Gallery, Waterloo ON

2016, Con-Textual, The Artery Gallery, Waterloo ON

2016, Techsthetic, Clinical Media Lab, Kitchener ON

2016, Welcoming Refugees, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener ON

2016, Transition I, The Artery Gallery, Waterloo ON

2016, Time Sensitive, The Artery Gallery, Waterloo ON

2016, Brush with Art, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON

2016, Bridges Lecture, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo ON

2015, Space, The Artery Gallery, Waterloo ON

2014, Stephan, The Artery Gallery, Waterloo ON

ARTIST TALKS

2021, Commuting and Other Lonely Thoughts, CreateSpace BIPOC Public Art, Toronto ON

2021, Not Traumatic Enough for a Shock Blanket, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

2020, Grieving Trauma, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

2019, What We Take Artist Panel, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018, Women in Art, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON
2018, Running with Connections: Empathetic Edition, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON
2017, Art and Self Care: How to take Solace in your Art, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo ON

CURITORIAL

2019, Stubiennial, ACRE Residency, Steuben WI

2018, 26 Days, Project Space, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff AB

WRITING

2024, The Burdening Spine, Artist Book

2024, In the Wake of Tragedy, We must Choose to Witness, Fountainswimming

2021, In Keeping House: Radicalizing the Mundane as Potential for Reconciliation, BlackFlash: Infinities

2021, the void’s song Zine, Goethe-Institute’s Algorithmic Culture Project

2021, In Colouring Grief Zine, Xpace Cultural Space

2021, This House, Textile Magazine Issue II

2020, All This Want, Living Hyphen Issue II

2020, We Do Not Gather, Article Club in Collaboration with Textile Magazine

2020, I Care, I Swear, Please don't tell Volume I

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2024, Open Studio Residency, Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, MA

2023, Raw materials and other Sculptures, Anderson Ranch Arts Centre, Snowmass Village CO

2022, Poetics and Language of AI, UKAI Projects, Online Residency

2021, Ferment AI Residency, UKAI Projects, Online Residency

2021, CreateSpace BIPOC Public Art Residency, STEPs Public Art, Online Residency

2020, Migration, UKAI Projects, Online Residency

2019, Through the Body / With the Body, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal QC

2019, ACRE Residency, ACRE Projects, Steuben WI

2018, BAiR Emerging Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff AB

PUBLICATIONS

2021, In Colouring Grief,  Accompanying Essay by Razan Samara 

2020, These Spaces Hold Us, Accompanying Essay by Rohan Ayinde

2020, Emotional Objects, Accompanyigng Essay written by Emily Gove

2020, Come Up to My Room, Curated by Astrid Ho, Megan Feheley & Lee Petrie

2019, Hard Twist 14: Entwined, Curated by Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell
2019, Fluencies, Accompanying Essay to What We Know To Be True, Written by Joy Xiang

2019, I Blink My Eyes to Keep the Time Journal, Curated by Rebecca Proppe & Brittany Myburgh

2017, Fresh Paint / New Construction, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Deschamps, Designed by Mike Patten

2017, Ignite Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Minute Man Press

COMMUNITY TEACHING & FACILITATION

2024, Thread that Tangles but doesn't Knot: A Kite Flying Workshop, Workshop organized by East End Arts

2024, Thread that Tangles but doesn't Knot: A Kite Flying Workshop, Workshop organized by Toronto Public Art Library: Beaches Branch

2024, Thread that Tangles but doesn't Knot: A Kite Flying Workshop, Workshop organized by 401 Richmond Arts

2024, Arab Apocalypse and Allying AI, Facilitated Reading Discussion, Workshop organized by Cranbrook Academy of Art

2024, Grief Night: Coming Together as Collective, Workshop organized by SAVAC

2023, Laser Cutting Fundamentals, Workshop organized by Cranbrook Academy of Art

2022, An Everyday Accessibility Guide to Social Media, Virtual Workshop organized by Culture Days

2022, Accessibility and Activism in Social Media, Virtual Workshop organized by Ed Video 

2022, A Love Letter to your Art Practice, Virtual Workshop organized by Akin Collective  

2021, Storytelling as Grant Writing, Workshop organized by Our Parvai

2021, Community Care as Abolition, Workshop organized by Bike Brigade

2021, Accessibility and Activism in Social Media, Virtual Workshop organized by Ed Video

2021, Collections & Accessibility, Virtual Workshop organized by Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries

2020, Caring for yourself: Writing for Your Mental Health, Virtual Workshop organized by Sarah Moreau

2020, Art as Political Action, Virtual Workshop organized by Tamil Archive Project

2020, Writing When You Have Nothing to Say, Virtual Workshop organized by Reception House

2020, Spoken Word As an Act of Care, Workshop organized by St. Jeromes University 

2019, Art Making & Grief: Menopause Edition, Wilfred Laurier University, Kitchener ON

WORK EXPERIENCE

2023, Marketing Specialist, Akin Collective

2022, Communications Manager, AKIMBO

2021, Community Research and Outreach Consultant, HXOUSE

2020, Outreach Coordinator, Regent Park Film Festival
2020, Digital Communications Assistant, Vector Festival/InterAccess 

2018, Communications Coordinator, THEMUSEUM

2018, Interpreter, This Could Be the Place, University of Waterloo Art Gallery & UW Fine Arts

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