EDUCATION:
2015 - 2017 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada / MA Media Studies
2008-2009 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada / Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies
2002- 2006 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada / BFA Studio Art and Art History
MULTIMEDIA
July 2012 – Current Co-founder of THE MEDIUM, artist collective and multimedia company. Artist / Curator / Art Director
May 2010 – Current Radio Host / DJ / Producer of weekly show “The Groundbreakers” on CKUT 90.3 fm, Montreal
2009 - 2010 Assistant Multimedia Director at MOMENT FACTORY, Montreal
AWARDS / JURY / GRANTS
Kindle Project Artist Awardee: Makers Muse 2018
Juror: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec Vivacité grant program 2017-18
Recipient of the Hydro Quebec Graduate Award 2015-16 / Scholarship for the MA in Media Studies
Recipient of the CALQ VIVACITE Grant Program 2008 & 2013 / Projects “Warchestra” and “Shams”
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
February 2019 “Shams” Multimedia Storytelling performance
(Performance) Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
February 2019 “I am BP, King of Exploitation, King of Injustice”
(Group) P21 Gallery, London, UK
June 2018 RAWI: Radius of Arab-American Writers Conference 2018
(Solo) Honors College, University of Houston, Texas
July 2017 Take Care of Your Self
(Artist-Curator) 3845 Blvd St. Laurent (Pop-up gallery) / Montreal, Canada
May-Sept 2017 Generation
(Group) Jepson Center, Telfair Museum / Savannah, Georgia
April-May 2017 ICONIC: Black Panther
(Group) Gregorio Escalante Gallery / Los Angeles, California
April 2016 The Lyre of Tauranga
(Performance/visuals) Baycourt Community and Arts Centre / Tauranga, New Zealand
November 2014 Art and Activism in the Arab World and Beyond
(Duo) Eastern Bloc Gallery / Montreal, Canada
September 2014 “Ink Tank: Prints from the Arab World”
(Artist-Curator) Centre Mont-Royal / Montreal, Canada
March – Oct 2013 Not About Bombs
(Group) National Veterans Art Museum / Chicago, IL, USA / (February 2012) Intermedia Arts / Minneapolis, MN, USA
March-August 2012 Le Corps Découvert*
(Group) Institut du Monde Arabe / Paris, France / *my work was selected and subsequently censored out of the exhibit.
Dec-Jan 2011 Arab Winter
(co-curator, Group) Under Pressure “Fresh Paint” Gallery / Montreal, Canada
September 2010 Al-Mahatta International Artists Workshop Open Day
(Group) Birzeit Old town (outdoor exhibition) / West Bank, Palestine
April - May 2010 WARCHESTRA Solo Exhibit / Mayworks Festival
(Solo) Toronto Free Gallery / Toronto, Canada
March 2010 They Welcomed us with Flowers / Bastakiya Art Fair
(Group) Iraq House, XVA Gallery, curated by Asmaa Al-Shabibi / Dubai, UAE
WORKSHOPS / PANELS
RAWI (Radius of Arab-American Writers) Artist book workshop (Houston, USA, 2018)
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SELF: Closing Panel (Montreal, 2017)
INTER-REALITIES: Lived Marginalization in Art & the Academy (Montreal, 2016)
NUQAT “CULTURE SHOCK” : Workshop facilitator (Kuwait, 2013)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FORUM: “Illustrating the Costs of War: Artists Respond to a Decade of Conflict” panel and workshop at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum (Minneapolis, 2012)
ECHO/SADA’s “Baghdad Workshop” program: Teaching Artist (2011)
ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES
Creation After Destruction: Iraq and the Iraq Diaspora’s Art, Literature and Cultural Production (NYU, March 2019) / Panel
Generation: Telfair Museum (Savannah, GA, May 2017) / Artist Talk
Muslim Women Voices at Wesleyan University, (Connecticut, March 2015) / Artist Talk
Art and Activism in the Arab World and Beyond (Montreal, Nov 2014)
Arab Development Initiative DEVELOPMENT LOUNGE: Speaker (Montreal, Sept 2014)
NUQAT “CULTURE SHOCK” (Kuwait, 2013)
RESIDENCIES
Artist-in-Residence: Muslim Women Voices at Wesleyan University, March 2015
Artist-in-Residence / Workshop Facilitator: Urban Cultures Project, 2011 (Sydney, Australia)
Al-Mahatta International Artists Workshop 2010 (West Bank, Palestine)