Born in 1989, Peshawer, Pakistan
Lives and works in New Haven, United States
Solo Exhibitions
2020 ‘Bazaar, A Recollection of Home’, T293 Rome
2018 ‘Ocean’s Edge’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg NS
2017 W’e Rise Again: Portraits of Afghan Women’, Lunenburg School of the Arts, NS
2014 ‘Pastoral & Industrial’, Hermes, Halifax, NS
2013 ‘Topophilia’, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS
2013 ‘At the Edge of the Shore’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, NS
2011 ‘The Wind-Up Dolls of Kabu’l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA 2020, Perrotin Gallery, NY,
2020 ‘Oh To Be A Painting, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Hold On, Hold Me, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Crying-Laughing, Friends & Neighbours Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018 Here & There, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS
2018 Stitch, Paint, Sculpt: Three Artist, Three Media, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, NS
2018 World of Co. Open Studio Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Pause, a Break, The Project Space Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, Alberta
2014 This Is The Canadian Earth, Art Sales & Rental Gallery, Halifax, NS
2013 My Feminism: The NSCAD Feminist Collective Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2013 Dialogue With Nature, White Rabbit Open Air Art Residency, Upper Economy, NS
2013 A little class goes along way, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS
2012 NSCAD Graduation Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2011 Forever in Flux: Feminism in Dialogue , Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2010 SoapBox Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
Selected Screening & Exhibitions
2019 New Suns chapter 2, Paramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2019 Cybernetic Alchemy, Foreign (Material) Affairs, New Inc, New Museum, NY, NY
2016 My Motherland, Instants Video Film Festival, FRAC Marseille (Regional Contemporary Arts Fund), France
2016 My Motherland, Women Voices Now, Rolling Hills States, California
2016 My Motherland, Video Art Festival of Casablanca, Morocco
2016 My Motherland, The Art of the Burqa: Film, performance, Art & Dialogue, Pen and Brush, New York, New York
2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 My Motherland, The 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Milan Gallery, Marseille, France
2015 My Motherland, Distant Attachments: Unsettling Contemporary Afghan Diasporic Art, City Lore Gallery, New York, USA
2015 My Motherland, Where We Now, Women Body & Space, Reel Women Hong Kong Film Festival, Hong Kong
2014 My Motherland, Inaugural Film Series, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON
2014 Nova Scotia Art Bank, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS
2013 5th Passion For Freedom Festival, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
2013 Original Species, (Art. Official. Selection), Creative Nova Scotia Award, Museum of Natural History, Halifax, NS
2013 Dome of Secret Desires, 7th International Arte Laguna Prize, Tese di San Cristoforo, Venice, Italy
2012 Passion For Freedom London Festival, UNIT24 Gallery, London, UK
Awards
2018 Arts Nova Scotia (Professional Development Grant)
2017 Toronto Arts Council (Individual Grant)
2016 Arts Equity Funding, Arts Nova Scotia (Creation Grant)