Memberships, Panels, Workshops & Residencies

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

"Cooking Up Community" creative workshops, Scarborough Arts, Toronto, CA (2022-ongoing)

Official member of Women Photograph (2021-Ongoing)

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

Art & Everyday Life, Lens-Based workshops, Riverdale Hub, Toronto, CA (2021-Ongoing)

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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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*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)

 

Curatorial

 

*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)