Education | Conferences and Panels | ||
Recent Exhibitions | Media and Reviews | ||
Curatorial Work | Community Work | ||
Grants and Residencies |
Education
- 2017-2018 Diploma program in Curatorial Studies, Carleton University.
- 2016 Enrolled in PhD program in Cultural Mediations (Visual Culture), Carleton University (continuing).
- 2015 MA Cultural Studies, Queen’s University. Research-Creation project.
- Thesis: Curating Resistance, Resisting Curation: The possibilities and limitations of objects in institutions
- 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Queen’s University.
Recent Exhibitions
Solo Shows
- 2016: Myth Marks, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec.
- 2015: Myth Marks, Union Gallery (Project Room), Kingston, Ontario.
- 2010: Prayers & Meditations, Ajax Public Library, Ajax, Ontario.
- 2009: Convergence/Divergence, Union Gallery, Kingston, Ontario.
- Harem Girls and Belly Dancers, The Artel, Kingston, Ontario.
- 2008 Kuffiyeh Kinderlach, Ban Righ Women’s Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
Select Group Shows
- 2020
- To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Diasporic Futurism, Root Division, San Francisco, California.
- See/Hear/Move, City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2019
- Encyclopedias, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
- we only liberate ourselves by binding our liberations to those of one another, SAW Video, Ottawa, Ontario.
- La voix des archives, LA CENTRALE Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec.
- Public Syntax (with the Video in the Public Sphere working group), Critical Distance, Toronto, Ontario.
- 2018
- Unpacking the Living Room, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 2017
- Undocumented, Chinatown Remixed, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2016
- Canadian Belonging(s), Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario.
- Dissonant Integrations, Z Art Space, Montreal, Quebec.
- 2014
- People’s Social Forum, Ottawa, Ontario.Lab Cab Festival, Toronto, Ontario.
- Hair Lines, Chipped Off Performance Festival, Kingston, Ontario.
- Chinatown Remixed, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2013
- Create This Revolution, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2012
- No Two Alike, The Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
- Figureworks III, St. Brigid’s Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
- VDay 2012, The Bronson Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2011
- Big Smalls IV, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 101 Frames: Gluttony, G101, Ottawa, Ontario.
- The New Art Festival, Glebe Park, Ottawa, Ontario
- 2010
- Figureworks, Rothwell Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
- One More Time With Feeling, Ontario Hall, Kingston, Ontario.
- BFA Select, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
- 2008
- Harem Girls and Bellydancers, The Artel, Kingston, Ontario.
- 2007
- Women’s Centre Art Show, Queen’s University, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Video Works, Project Room (Union Gallery) Kingston, Ontario
Curatorial Experience
- 2019 Home/Making, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2015 UTOPIAS performance art festival
- Co-Curator/ Collective Member, Turbines Curatorial Collective, Kingston.
Grants and Residencies
- 2020 Social Sciences and Research Council Doctoral Award
- 2018 Reesa Greenburg Curatorial Studies Award, Carleton University.
- 2017 Emerging Artist Grant, Ottawa Arts Council.
- Canadian Journal of Communications Student Paper Prize.
- 2016 Impressions Residency Award, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Quebec.
- Imam Tawfiq Memorial Scholarship.
- 2012 Spark Box Studio Residency Award, Picton, Ontario.
- 2009 Atelier of Alexandria Residency, Alexandria, Egypt.
Conferences and Panels
- 2020 Screening: “a graph, a lovely tree“, Knot Project Space, Ottawa.
- 2017 Guest Lecture: “Special Topics in Arab Canadian Studies” class in University of Ottawa , Ontario.
- Facilitator/Panel participant: Hyper/in/visibility: A Dialogue on Women of Colour in the Arts, Studio 66, Ottawa.
- Presenter: Universities Art Association of Canada conference, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff.
- Presenter: Rethinking Canada 150: Networks and Nodes in Asian Canadian Visual Culture, Ottawa.
- Presenter: Imagined Realities, Communication Graduate Caucus, Carleton University.
- Presenter: Off The Record, Institute For Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University.
- Presenter: 2016 Universities Art Association of Canada conference 2016, UQAM, Montreal.
- Presenter: Vitriol: Art and its Discontents, Art History Graduate Student Association, Concordia University.
- Presenter: Ethnocultural Art Histories Research, Art History Department, Concordia University.
- Presenter: Play/Rewind, Communication Graduate Caucus, Carleton University.
- Panel participant: 2015 Visual Bites in Context: Research-in-Conversation, Union Gallery, Kingston.
- Presenter: Undisciplined, Department of Cultural Studies, Queen’s University.
Media/ Reviews
- 2016 “Terence Dick: Canadian Belonging(s) at the Art Gallery of Missisauga” (Review).
- 2015 “Myth Marks makes move to decolonize museums ”, Queen’s Journal, Sept 25 (Review).
- 2010 Interview, Lighthouse Wire Magazine, Volume 8.
- Self Portrait as Thoth, The Undergraduate Review Volume 22.
- 2009 “Reclaiming the Body Through Painting”, Queen’s Journal (Interview).
- Queen’s Gazette, (Image and Article, on Macintosh-Corry Mural).
- On Sex and Text: Women and the Koran. “The Body as a Site of Discrimination: Exploring and Resisting Body-Based Oppressions”.
- 2008 The Queen’s Journal (Review, On Sex and Text: Women and the Koran).
- On Sex and Text: Women and the Koran (Image), Queen’s Feminist Review.
- 2007 On Sex and Text: Self-Portrait (Image) Lighthouse Wire.
Community Work
- 2020: VP External CUPE 4600, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Bargaining team member, CUPE 4600, Carleton University, Ontario.
- 2019 Peer Assessment Committee, Film and Video Category, City of Ottawa, Ontario.
- 2017 Advisory Board Member, Carleton University Art Gallery.
- 2016 How does science inspire you? Mural project, Canada Museum of Science & Technology, Ottawa.
- 2015 Vice President Community Relations, PSAC 901, Kingston.
- 2014 Event Coordination, Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Kingston.
- Event Coordination, Academic as Advocate seminar, Queen’s University.
- 2013 Teaching Assistanceship, Studio Fundamentals, Queen’s University.
- Teaching Assistanceship, Art in Society 210, Queen’s University.
- Board Member, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston.
- Communications Committee Chair, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre,
- 2012 Volunteer, G101, Ottawa.
- Organizer, Food Not Bombs, Ottawa.
- Volunteer, Indigenous People’s Solidarity Movement Ottawa.
- Volunteer, Pink Triangle Services, Ottawa.
- Event Coordination, Full Moon Art Party, Ottawa.
- 2010 Selection Committee, Union Gallery, Kingston.
- 2009 Gallery Assistant (Internship) The Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston.
- Art Director, ArtReach, Kingston.
- 2008 Sole Proprietor, Chariot Murals, Kingston.
- Art Director/Instructor, ArtReach, Kingston.