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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
TEACHING & COMMUNITY FACILITATION
2025, Beginning Sculpture, Adjunct Instructor, Wayne State University
2025, Time Based Media: Fundamentals, Hybrid Class Adjunct Instructor, Wayne State University
2024, Time Based Media: Fundamentals, Hybrid Class Adjunct Instructor, Wayne State University
2024, Time Based Media: Video Arts, Hybrid Class Adjunct Instructor, Wayne State University
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
