Mariam Magsi 

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Mariam Magsi (she/they) is a Karachi-born, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working in photography, performance, installation, writing, storytelling and other arts.​

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Grounded in inter-cultural, Baloch-Punjabi, Sufi, and multi-faith traditions of resistance, Mariam draws on lived experience, archival inquiry, and intergenerational histories to examine memory, inheritance, gender, migration, displacement and embodied forms of belonging through anti-colonial, intersectional feminist, and queer frameworks.​

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Mariam’s practice interrupts linear, historical structures, and unsettles fixed constructions, and stereotypes of marginalized identities.

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Mariam holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design from OCAD University and a BFA in Studio Art and English Literature from the University of Toronto. Her award-winning work has been exhibited and published internationally across museum, festival, and editorial contexts. Alongside studio work and writing, Mariam facilitates educational programs and has extensive experience working with BIPOC women in community-based and care-focused spaces. Mariam also works professionally as an actor and voiceover artist.