Education
MA Postcolonial Culture and Global
Policy, Goldsmith’s College
BA Art and Design, University of
Leeds
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 Awards
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
Selected Group 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
LECTURES:
Archives and the Colonial Body, UCL
-Guest Lecturer
Humanities: Re/Orienting (in) the World, NorthWestern University
-Guest Lecturer
Engaged Gazing for Social Justice in Britain, The Good Immigrant, Seattle University/Regent’s University
-Guest Lecturer
Panels:
Mou7i6 x Decolonial Hacker
London Short Film Festival: Collectively Doing It Differently by TAPE Collective, Rich Mix
Working In The Creative Industries, panel by We Are Here, LSE
“Memories”, panel by Laundry Arts, Protein Studios
V&A Friday Late: AZEEMA ANTI-ART SCHOOL. Art Class and Panel exploring decolonisation within school and museums
-Chair of panel
Thiird Magazine: Shared Space Panel
Self-Representation: Women of Colour in Publishing, hosted by Decolonise Sussex and USSU, University of Sussex
Further contributions:
Ted Baker x CMN Collaboration
-Graduate Profile
D66 Art and Resistance, Netherlands
-Contributing artist
Laundry Arts: Women, Memories & Monuments,
reading session, Design Museum
-Contributing artist
International Woman's Day by Public Ambition
-Contributing artist
Most Successful Kurds in Britain Awards: "Female Artist”
-Nominated
PUBLICATIONS:
2021 - SEE THROUGH Issue 2, Marques Almeida
2021 - Nour Magazine, online
2021 - DAZED, Summer Issue 21
2020 - Popular Front, Issue 2
2020 - Bricks Magazine Issue 7
2019 - Hymen Magazine, Issue 4
2018 - Lungs Project, Issue 3
2017 - AZEEMA Magazine, Issue 2
2017 - Memories, by The Laundry Arts
Cited + mentioned: Harper’s Baazar Arabia, DAZED, J-Deed, The Dots,
Pinterest, The Face, Bubble Gum Club, Elephant, It’s Nice That, Foundation FM,
Refinery29, East East, Nowness, PW Magazine, i-D, and more.
WRITING:
London Short Film Festival 2022:
“av û nan hevpar e di nav me de, tu xwişka min î û ez xwişka te me” (water and bread split between us - you are my sister and i am your sister)
AZEEMA Issue 4:
Nadine Mos
Shamiran Istifan
AZEEMA Online:
“‘3eib! What will people think?’ - Sarah Bahbah's journey to liberation”
The West Asian and North African Woman’s Art Library:
Archives and the Colonial Body
AZEEMA x SOLE DxB:
“What they call her? ‘RIMON’”
Research essay:
“A Study Of Imprisonment As An Institutional Method Of Oppression Towards Kurdish Women In Turkey”
AZEEMA Issue 3:
“Undocumented Women in Britain”
“A Reflection On The Contemporary Orientalisation Of Kurdish Women And On Their Modalities of Resistance”
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art + Women Artists of the Northeast Library + The West Asian and North African Woman’s Art Library
-Workshop leader
V&A Friday Late: AZEEMA ANTI-ART SCHOOL. Art Class and Panel exploring decolonisation within school and museums
-Lead director/curator
'Society and Culture' exhibition by Meet The Artists/Creative Debuts
-Curator
Our Naked Truths, Art class, The Archivist
-Curator and organisor
“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
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art + Women Artists of the Northeast Library + The West Asian and North African Woman’s Art Library
-Workshop leader
V&A Friday Late: AZEEMA ANTI-ART SCHOOL. Art Class and Panel exploring decolonisation within school and museums
-Lead director/curator
'Society and Culture' exhibition by Meet The Artists/Creative Debuts
-Curator
Our Naked Truths, Art class, The Archivist
-Curator and organisor
“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