Memberships, Panels, Workshops & Residencies

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Forecast Journal, Los Angeles, USA (2023-ongoing)

AGOxRBC Artist in Residence Program, Art Gallery of Ontario (2022)

Healthy Arts for Seniors, Scarborough Arts, Toronto, CA (2022-ongoing)

Official member of Women Photograph (2021-Ongoing)

Community Advisory Panel, Anti-Racism, Toronto Police (2021-2023) 

Lens-Based workshops, Riverdale Hub, Toronto, CA (2021-2023)

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Awards, Grants, Auctions & Collections

 

Didihood Creative Fund Grant (2023)

Arts & Culture Leader Award, Community Service Recognition, Canada (2023) 

Artsy with Pen+Brush Benefit Auction, New York, USA (2022)

Women of Diversity Summit & Awards, Influencer Category, Toronto, Canada (2022)

Greenhouse Auction, In Support of Women, New York, USA (2022)

University of Toronto, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Permanent Collection, Toronto, Canada (2022)

COLART Collective, Permanent Collection, Montreal, Canada (2020-2021)

Toronto Arts Council-Emerging Individual Visual Arts Grant (2018-2019)

OCAD University-Local & International Recognition & Creative Research Excellence Award (2017)

Pride Photo Awards-First Place, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015)

Monochrome Awards-Third Place, U.S.A  (2015)

San Francisco International Photography-Silver Award, U.S.A (2014)

World Poetry Movement-Publication Award, U.S.A (2012)

Tashadud Na Manzur-Second Place Award, Pakistan (2012)

 

Exhibitions, Publications & Events

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BlackFlash Magazine, CA (2024)

This is who we are, Colouring Book, Vilcek Foundation, New York, USA (2023)

Hindus for Human Rights Calendar, New York, USA (2023)

Forecast Journal, Atmosphere Residency, Los Angeles, USA (2023)

Nuit Blanche Artist Talk, Eat More Scarborough & Scarborough Arts, CA (2023)

Forecast Journal x Dot Red, Group Show, Los Angeles, USA (2023) 

Cooking Up Feminism, Book Launch, Scarborough Arts, Toronto, CA (2023)

Belonging, Gallery 183, Toronto, CA (2023)

No Drama Calendar, Paris, France (2023)

Forecast Journal, Los Angeles, USA (2023)

SCOPE with LOUPE Art, Art Basel, Miami, USA (2022)

Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA (2022)

Foto Femme United, Featured Artist, Paris, France (2022)

Cover Image: Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (2022)

Chai+Talk, Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC, Scarborough, CA (2022)

Public Presentation of Dawat Yan Banquet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA (2022)

Celebrating the Unseen, Pride Photo Foundation, The Netherlands (2022-2023)

I AM HERE, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA (2022)

Portraits of Resilience, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA (2022)

Dawat Yan Banquet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA (2022)

The Sk(in) I'm in, International Human Rights Art Festival, New York, USA (2021-Ongoing)

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, Cover Issue, Canada (2021)

(re)presenting the Diaspora, OCAD University, Toronto, CA (2020)

(mus)interpreted, Daniels Spectrum Gallery, Toronto, CA (2019)

Ghosts & Matter, Glory Hole Gallery with Trinity Square Video, Toronto, CA (2019)

In Print, Pen & Brush Foundation, New York, USA (2019)

Little Islands Festival, Greece (2019)

Tilt Shift, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, CA (2019)

Art Habens Contemporary Art Review, UK (2019)

The Doll Project, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, CA (2019)

Salon 44, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, CA (2019)

TRANS:formation, Queer Moving Image, Philadelphia, US (2019)

Emergence Symposium, Humber College, Toronto, Canada (2018)

(mus)interpreted, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada (2018)

Art & Storytelling, SPEAK UP! Sheridan Galleries, Brampton, Canada (2018)

50x50, Contact Festival, Toronto, Canada (2018)

Jahez | Dowry, Art Gallery of Mississauga, GTA, Canada (2018)

Purdah | Shui, with Eric Chengyang, Glory Hole Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2018)

Liminal Forms, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada (2018)

Response, A.Smith Gallery, Texas, U.S (2018)

The Portrait, Praxis Gallery and Photographic Art Centre, Minneapolis, U.S (2018)

The Public, AGO-Art Gallery of Ontario, Y+ Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (2017)

X, Y & Zed, Glory Hole Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada (2017)

Mourning, AGO-Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2017)

Purdah, MFA Thesis Show, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada (2017)

The (Un)Othered Body, Group Show, 205 Richmond W, Toronto, Canada (2017)

LOGS, Group Show, Y+ Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (2016)

Pride Photo Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015)

TRANS:formation, Group Show, Open Studio, Sudbury, Canada (2015)

TRANS:formation, Group Show, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2015)

Burqa, Digital Photography Reception, Louvre, Paris, France (2015)

Lines, Group Show, Darkroom Gallery, Essex, Vermont, U.S.A (2015)

TRANS:formation, Solo Show, Process Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2014)

Group Show* Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada (2014)

Contact Photography Festival* OCAD Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2014)

City Love, Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2014)

Fear, Project Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2013)

Group Show, Gallery Hittite, Toronto, Canada (2013)

The Geometric State, Artisans At Work Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2013)

Connection Lost, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada (2012)

Not Quite How I Remember It, Performance, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2011)

Tactical Media, Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, Canada (2011)

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Curatorial

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Within This Body, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto (2012)

Compose/Decompose, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto (2011)

Lyve Nature, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto (2010)

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Education

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MFA, OCAD University: Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design (2017)

Digital Photography Diploma: George Brown College, Continuing Studies (2015)

BFA with Honours: University of Toronto in Studio Art & English Literature (2008)