Bio 

Born

1984Khartoum, Sudan. Lives and works in New Haven, CT.

Education

2019Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2019Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT, MFA

2014Material Art and Design, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto ON, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2024[forthcoming], Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

2023that which trembles wavers, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC

2022Dampen the flame; Extinguish the fire, Helena Anrather, New York

2022In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

2022solar evocation, Centre CLARK, Montreal, QC

2021fire is love, water is sorrow — a distant fire, Torwards Gallery, Toronto, ON (with Teto Elsiddique)

2019Begin in smoke, end in ashes, Helena Anrather, New York

2018let me hear you sweat, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON

2017Concave Conflux Convex, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2017Lattice be Transparent, 8eleven, Toronto, ON

Group Exhibitions

2024Aporia (notes to a Medium), The Belkin at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2023Genius Loci, Charles Moffett, New York, NY

2023Crusading The Specter, Yossi Milo, New York

2022Last Call, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC

2021Greater Toronto Art 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON

2019Material Tells, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, ON

2019Too full to cry, Shin Gallery, New York

2019Ripe at Dawn, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

2019NADA Miami, Towards, Miami, FL

2019NADA Miami, Parisian Laundry, Miami, FL

2018Art Toronto, Projet Pangée, Toronto, ON

2017An Orbit, The Drake, Toronto, ON

2016Non-Objective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2015Every So Often, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2014Surface/Surfacing, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON

2014Chautauqua School of Art Annual Student Exhibition, Fowler – Kellog Art Center, Chautauqua, NY

2014Carrier: Out of Pocket, 1 Gerrard West, Toronto, ON

201499th OCADU Graduate Exhibition, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON

2014Process and Product, Make Works, Toronto, ON

2012Graft, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON

201150th Anniversary Stem Cell Collaboration, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, ON

Award

2024Creative Capital award, "Wild futures"

Awards and Residencies

2022Creation to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON

2021Creation to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON

2021Amant Residency, New York

2020Silver Art Project, New York

2020Visual Arts Project Grant - Emerging, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON

2020Visual Arts Grant – Emerging, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON

2020MSA Vision Grant - Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, Chattanooga, TN

2019The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY

2019Susan H. Whedon Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2019Rapid Prototyping Grant, Yale Digital Humanities Lab, New Haven, CT

2019Skowhegan Fellowship/Residency Award, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2019Blair Dickinson Scholarship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2018Schickle – Collingwood Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT

2017Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2016Visual Arts Grant - Emerging, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON

2014Chautauqua School of Arts, Chautauqua, NY

2014Ellen Adams Award, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON

2014Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2014Chautauqua School of Arts Residency Scholarship, Chautauqua, NY

Lectures and Talks

2021MOCA Toronto, Toronto, ON

2021School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA

2021Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON

2021Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Conference, Cincinnati, OH

2020Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON

2018Brooklyn Rail - New Social Environments #47, Online

2019Lighthouse Works Artist Talk, Fishers Island, NY

2018Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT

2017Lattice Begin Our Discussion, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, ON

2016Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON

2015Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON