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Education
2012
MFA, School of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, NY
2005
BFA, Visual Arts Design & Sociology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Pocket Diary, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, U.K.
New Leaf, Help USA, permanent public art commission, Brooklyn, NY
The Armory Show, (two-person exhibition with Jala Wahid), Javits Center, NYC (TBA)
2024
Floral Fix, Simone Subal Gallery, NYC
The Safety Game, 10 & Zero Uno, Venice, Italy
2023
Painful Arc (Shoulder High) II, The High Line Park, NYC, (2023-24)
The Liberator, curated by Anne Reeve, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Desire and Surveillance, Statements, Basel, Switzerland
Cloak and Dagger, curated by Albey Miner, Maria & Alberto De La Cruz Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
2022
Weight on History, curated by Ylinka Barotto and Amara Antilla, Moody Arts Center Houston, TX and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
2021
I Am an Archive, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
2020
By Faith, The Kitchen, NYC
2019
Snake Skin, Simone Subal Gallery, NYC
Free to Be (two-person exhibition with Rico Gatson), Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
LISTE, (two-person exhibition with Sonia Almedia), organized Simone Subal, Basel, Switzerland
2018
iamuslima, (third installment), curated by Polly Nordstrand, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centers, Colorado
2017
Reading Room On Purpose, NADA Projects, organized by Participant Inc, New Art Dealers Alliance, Miami, FL
iamuslima, (second installment), curated by Sara-Jayne Parsons, Moudy Gallery, at Texas Christian University College of Fine Arts, Fort Worth, TX
iamuslima, (first installment) curated by Lia Gangitano, Participant Inc. Gallery, NYC
2015
Walk with Me, curated by Sara Reisman and organized by 21st Projects, Critical Practices Inc., NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Wool. Silk Resistance, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (TBA)
2025
UFO - Unforeseen Feelings Observed, curated by Luisa Schlotterbeck, Ruttkowski;68, NYC
First there was a see, curated by Azra Dawood, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Rose, curated by Justine Kurland and Marina Chao, (touring exhibition), Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY
What We Carry, Patel Brown, Toronto, Canada
Numbers, Salma Sarriedine, NYC
Powers of the Unseen, Paul Robeson Gallery at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2024
Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art, curated by Danielle Wu, Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts, NYC
Don't Touch my Hair, Hannah Traore Gallery, NYC
This Life, Jupiter Gallery, NYC
From Alpha to Creation: Religion in the Deep South, curated by Maya A. Brooks, North Carolina Museum of Art, NC
2023
The Rose, curated by Justine Kurland, (touring exhibition), The Lumber Room, Portland, OR
Femme Friction: Female Artist from the Last 100 Years, curated by C1760, Academy Mansion, NYC
Two Grains of Wheat, curated by Sara Reisman, 601 Artspace, NYC
Weathering, Kai Matsumiya, NYC
Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular, curated by Iftikar Dadi, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India (2022-23)
2022
Bajo el sol, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
Texan: Part II, Various Small Fires, Dallas TX
Dysynchronics, curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2021
TEXTiles, curated by Deborah Davis, Bookstein Projects, NYC
In Place of an Index, curated by Ryan N. Dennis, Evan Garza, and Max Fields, Fotofest and Texas Biennial, Houston, TX
Light, curated by Rico Gatson, Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC
Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment, curated by Lucy I. Zimmerman Wexner Center for the
Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Home Body, curated by Nico Wheadon, Sapar Contemporary, New York, NY
2020
Mending the Sky: Creating Space for Care, Collectivity, and Critique, curated by Katie A. Pfohl, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Catalyst, Art and Social Change, curated by Jessica Bell Brown, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, NYC
Sound Off: Silence and Resistance, curated by Abigail Raphael Collins, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, (touring show), Jewish Museum of Art, NYC
2019
Beyond Geography: Contemporary Art and Muslim Experience, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
The Value of Sanctuary: Building a House without Walls, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC
Harlem Postcard Project, organized by Eric Booker and Alexandra Adams, Studio Museum, NYC
Radical Love, curated by Jaishri Abichandani and Natasha Becker, Ford Foundation Gallery, NYC
ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, curated by Olga E. Dekalo, Albany Museum, University of Albany State University of New York
NADA House: Baseera Khan and Erick Medel, curated by HOUSING and New Art Dealers Alliance, Governors Island, NYC
Glass Age, organized by Jesse Greenberg, Helena Anrather Gallery, NYC
Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany
Wu-Tang Clan X Absolut Art, NYC
2018
Not for Everybody, curated by Allie Tepper, Simone Subal Gallery, NYC
How to See in the Dark, curated by Christian Camacho-Light, Cuchifritos, NYC
Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art, curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella, (traveling show), MoCA Tucson, AZ
Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
TAILBONE, curated by Tenaya Izu and Henry Murphy, 47 Canal, NYC
SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC
Precious not Precious, curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, OSMOS, NYC
Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora, curated by Kalia Brooks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
On Whiteness, curated by Lumi Tan, in collaboration with The Racial Imaginary Institute and The Kitchen, NYC
Mane N’ Tail, curated by Katherine Simone Reynolds, Luminary, St. Louis, MO
ROYGBIV, Kate Werble Gallery, NYC
I am no bird..., ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
In Practice: Another Echo, curated by Allie Tepper, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY
Rituals, curated by Courtenay Finn, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
LOVE 2018: Purple Hearts, curated by Rachel Stern, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, NYC
HyphenAmerica, curated by Rex Delafkaran and Tsedaye Makonnen, Gallery 102, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2017
Standard Forms, curated by Christian Camacho-Light, The Berrie Center Art Galleries, Ramapo College, NJ
Other Romances, curated by Em Rooney, Rachel Uffner, NY
Otherwise, you don’t see me, curated by Rachel Steinberg, SOHO20, Brooklyn, NY
Leaving Home, curated by David Dixon and Cathouse Funeral, Beacon, NY
2016
The Window, organized by BRIC Biennial, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY
THE ’91 VIOLENCE, curated by Jonathan Allen, Brooklyn Arts Council, NY
Subject to Capital, curated by Joshua Lubin-Levy, Abrons Art Center, NYC
2015
Of Gentle Birth, curated by Jonathan Allen, Brooklyn Arts Council, NY
Prisoner of Love, Open Text, organized by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
2014
Arrivals, Out to See, curated by Sara Reisman, NYC Department of Cultural Affair’s OnePercent for ArtProgram, NYC
2013
Texas Biennial, 5th Anniversary, Big Medium, Austin, TX
Small Work Big Change Auction, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Collective, Judson Memorial Church, NYC
Selected Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NewYork, NY
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Kadist, Paris, France and San Francisco, CA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Providence College, Providence, RI
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NewYork, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, NY