Education
MA Postcolonial Culture and Global
Policy, Goldsmith’s College
BA Art and Design, University of
Leeds
Bad Girls: Representations of Race and Gender in Popular Culture, Goldsmith's College
Residencies and Bursaries
Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practise
Warehouse 421 (Abu Dhabi) x Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) – PRAXIS: Art and Philosophy in the Global Contemporary
Jupiter Woods: Herstories and Feminisms
Haramacy by Comm.un
a-n The Artists Information Company / The Freelands Foundation
Jerwood Bursaries Award
The White Pube Monthly Digital Takeover
Creative Mentor Network recipient
Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practise
Warehouse 421 (Abu Dhabi) x Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) – PRAXIS: Art and Philosophy in the Global Contemporary
Jupiter Woods: Herstories and Feminisms
Haramacy by Comm.un
a-n The Artists Information Company / The Freelands Foundation
Jerwood Bursaries Award
The White Pube Monthly Digital Takeover
Creative Mentor Network recipient
Exhibitions
2021
As We Gaze Upon Her, curated by Banat Collective, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
ZAO TANG 2021, organised by Local Collective x STIGMA (digital)
2020
WOMEN IN MY HISTORY PART II, The White Pube (Digital)
2019
Can’t Win Don’t Try 7, CWDT, London, United Kingdom
Third Space II: An Exhibition of Diaspora Artists, Third Space, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2018
ARTUMMAH, East of West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
100 Years, Todays Women by We Are Here, LSE
Library, London, United Kingdom
A River Flowing, East Of West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2017
Laundry Service Presents Memories, Protein Studios, London, United Kingdom
RIOTGAL, The Hospital Club, London, United Kingdom
2015
Pesangeh (exhibition) Kurdistan, Diyarbakir, Kurdistan
Further contributions
SEE THROUGH Issue 2 by Marques Almeida
-Artist Profile
Archives and the Colonial Body, UCL
-Guest Lecturer
Humanities: Re/Orienting (in) the World, NorthWestern University
-Guest Lecturer
Ted Baker x CMN Collaboration
-Graduate Profile
D66 Art and Resistance, Video Project, Netherlands
-Contributing artist
Engaged Gazing for Social Justice in Britain, The Good Immigrant, Seattle University/Regent’s University
-Guest Lecturer
Laundry Arts: Women,Memories & Monuments,
reading session, Design Museum
-Contributing artist
Working In The Creative Industries, panel by We Are Here, LSE
-Panelist
“Memories”, panel by Laundry Arts, Protein Studios
-Panelist
'Society and Culture' exhibition by Meet The Artists/Creative Debuts
-Curator
Our Naked Truths, Art class, The Archivist
-Curator and organisor
International Woman's Day by Public Ambition
-Contributing artist
“Woman's Night”, Are We All Human(E)?
P21 Gallery
-Curator/Events Organiser
“Art Class”, Are We All Human(E)? P21 Gallery
-Curator/Events Organiser
Most Successful Kurds in Britain Awards: "Female Artist”
-Nominated
As Senior Editor for AZEEMA Magazine
AZEEMA Issue 4
- Set Design:
asawat alsudan-Interview + writer:
Hecha; The intricacies of Iraq’s most popular and misunderstood dance
Food is the ritual of Love
Tsunaina
Nadine Mos
Shamiran Istifan
Dazed 100 2021
-AZEEMA Magazine (Senior Editor)
AZEEMA x Pinterest: Ramadan Rituals and Eid celebrations
-Art Direction and Interviews
AZEEMA x Foundation FM: Friday Takeover
-AZEEMA Magazine (Senior Editor)
Self-Published by DAZED x Calvin Klein
-AZEEMA Magazine (Senior Editor)
“‘3eib! What will people think?’ - Sarah Bahbah's journey to liberation”
-writer
AZEEMA x SOLE DxB: What they call her? “RIMON”
-writer
It’s Nice That Ones to Watch 2020
-AZEEMA Magazine (Senior Editor)
AZEEMA X NIKE: Move Without Limits Victoria Swim Launch
-Cultural programmer & events producer
AZEEMA X NIKE: Move Without Limits film
-Executive producer, researcher
Heritage of Tomorrow: A short film by AZEEMA
-Set design & directing
V&A Friday Late: AZEEMA ANTI-ART SCHOOL. Art Class and Panel exploring decolonisation within school and museums
-Lead director/curator & Chair of panel
Thiird Magazine: Shared Space Panel
-Panelist
Self-Representation: Women of Colour in Publishing, hosted by Decolonise Sussex and USSU, University of Sussex
-Panelist
AZEEMA Issue 3
“Undocumented Women in Britain”
“A Reflection On The Contemporary Orientalisation Of Kurdish Women And On Their Modalities of Resistance”
– writer