artist & art worker
EXHIBITIONS
October 2023
Curator: Material Evidence | Baxter St at CCNY, New York, NY
September 2023
Exhibition Partner: Musings: Mohammad Omer Khalil | Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
June 2023
Solo exhibiting artist: An Essence: An installation | Letra Muerta, Brooklyn, NY
June 2022
Artist: Escapism: The Female Gaze exhibition, curated by Juna Hume Clark | Soft Projects, Ypsilanti, MI
April - May 2022
Artist: Deeply Rooted, curated by Sundus Abdul Hadi | Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL
December 2021-2022
Artist: APE Flat File Program | Available Potential Enterprises, Ltd. Northampton, MA
October 2021
Organizer: How to Cook a Wolf, curated by Alison Karasyk | CBA
Organizer: What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me: Dimensional Stories in Paper: Colette Fu | CBA
Organizer: Impracticum: Mining Books on Color: JULM Studios | CBA
July 2021
Curator: There Where You Are Not: A Palestine Reading Room | Chinatown Soup, NYC
Organizer: Summer Reading, curated by Ann Tarantino & Lindsey Landfried | CBA
Curator: Imperfect Archiving/Archiving as Practice: Be Oakley / Genderfail | CBA
Organizer: 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards: Aperture Foundation | CBA
April 2021
Organizer: Veiled Taxonomies: Betsy Stirratt | CBA
Organizer: Interspecies Futures [IF], curated by Oscar Salguero | CBA
Organizer: Lights, Tunnels, Passages & Shadows: Maureen Catbagan | CBA
January 2021
Organizer: Out of Sight, Beyond Touch, curated by Maryam Ghoreishi | CBA
Curator: New Book Art: Work from 2019 Artists in Residence | CBA
October 2020
Organizer: Americans Looking In, curated by Emilie Ahearn and Sherri Littlefield | CBA
Organizer: Morcos/Key Makes/Reads: Wael Morcos and Jon Key | CBA
Organizer: Construction Site: Viviane Rombaldi Seppey | CBA
January 2020
Organizer: I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name. Curated by Lila Nazemian | CBA
Organizer: Remembering Walter Hamady: Selections from The Perishable Press. Curated by Kelsey King | CBA
Organizer: The Private Life of Rag Dolls: Faride Mereb | CBA
October 2019
Organizer: Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today. Curated by Deirdre Lawrence | CBA
Curator: Witnessing Artist’s Books: Clarissa Sligh | CBA
July 2019
Organizer: Poetry is Not a Luxury, Curated by Maymanah Farhat | CBA
Organizer: The Reverse of Landscape: Catalina De La Cruz | CBA
Curator: The Traveling Artist: Journals by Lydia Rubio | CBA
April 2019
Organizer: Rising Together. Curated by College Book Art Association | CBA
Curator: New Book Art: Work from 2018 Artists-in-Residence | CBA
January 2019
Organizer: Politics of Place. Curated by Alexander Campos & Monica Oppen | CBA
Organizer: Dignidad: Maria Veronica San Martin | CBA
August 2018
Curator: Sacrifice: a traveling interfaith exhibition | New York, NY
April 2018
Curator: Qisas: Narratives of Resistance | New York, NY
March 2017
Co-Organizer: American Muslim art in Detroit (illMuslims) | Dearborn, MI
ENGAGEMENTS
Forthcoming
Essay Contributor: Walking a common ground: Mohammad Omer Khalil in Asilah Exhibition Catalog | Washington & Lee Museums, Lexington, VA
Photo Contributor: Several photographs, "The Xenophile" | Dada Duende Record Club Journal
Mizna+RAWIFest: Presenter, "A Book is a Way to Solve a Problem" Workshop with Kamelya Omayma Youssef & Nour Arafat | Minneapolis, MN
May 2023
Photo contributor: Several photographs, “This is your receipt and is not a ticket for travel” | Pub by Faint Line Press, danilo machado, Brooklyn, NY
February 2023
Co-organizer: Meal 12: The Little Shoe | Red Flower Collective, Brooklyn
Poetry contributor: one poem, Morning Aubade | Koukash Review, Brooklyn
December 2022
Co-organizer: Meal 11: In Close Proximity | Red Flower Collective, Brooklyn
Co-organizer: Meal 10: Tfadhalo | Red Flower Collective, Ridgewood, Queens
October 2022
Co-organizer: Meal 9: A Communal Dinner with RFC | Red Flower Collective, Haverford, PA
Photo contributor: Two archival photographs, “Issue No. 1” | Everybody Press, Brooklyn
August 2022
Co-organizer: Meal8: Open Kitchen | Red Flower Collective, Governors Island, New York, NY
July 2022
Moderating Artist: I was a point. I was a circle. Artist talk with Haifa Bint-Kadi | Warburton Galerie, Yonkers, NY
February 2022
Co-organizer: Meal #6: Palestinian Soul. An afternoon of Palestinian home cooking, art and music, served 30+ guests a three course meal.
Co-organized with Erin Montanez & Tsohil Bhatia | Red Flower Collective
October 2021
Curator & Organizer: Enduring Apocalypse: A Performance Art Marathon. A 12 hour event showcasing 50 performance based works. | Independent
July 2021
Organizer: There Where You Are Not: A Palestine reading room. books, prints, and ephemera contextualizing aspects of the history and visual culture of Palestine
June 2021
Co-Curator & Co-Organizer: A Poetry Reading in the Sky // The Sky as in Palestine. Poetry reading / fundraiser / awareness event for Palestine. | Independent
May 2021
Organizer: Radical Legacies in Contemporary Creative Work. A series of four conversations movement work from the perspective of Black artists and organizers from major cities throughout the US.
Curated by Shani Peters and Joseph Cuillier III. | CBA
March 2021
Panel Moderator: Designing Poetry Chapbooks in the Book Arts | Queens College
April 2020
Instructor: 7 Week Virtual Writing Workshop | Islamic Center at NYU
March 2020
Organizer: Between Heritage and Modernity: Three Panel Discussions on Arabic Typography with international experts in the field.
Curated by Dr. Nadine Chahine. | CBA
April 2019
Presenter: Re-Surfacing the “Abandoned Property” with Palestine Festival of Literature | Jerusalem, Palestine
March 2019
Organizer: Women in Publishing: Three Panel discussions on the history and contributions of women in the US publishing world.
Curated by Sarah Kirk Hanley. | CBA
October 2018
Instructor: Healing Through The Arts | Islamic Center at NYU
June 2017
Presenter: Allied Media Conference: Community Filmmaking | Detroit
CIVIC LEADERSHIP & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
June 2022
Juror: 12Gates & PAAFF's Contemporary Video Art Exhibition
December 2020
Judge: 2021 Grant Cycle for Literary Programs | Brooklyn Arts Council
December 2019
Judge: 2020 Grant Cycle for Literary Programs | Brooklyn Arts Council
November 2019
Advisor: Contemporary Muslim Fashions | Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
June 2019
Artist: Iftar for IRAP Exhibition | New York, NY
November 2018
Judge: 2019 Grant Cycle for Literary Programs | Brooklyn Arts Council
January 2018
Fellow: Critical Muslim Studies School | Cape Town, South Africa