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Aminah Ibrahim (b.1992) is a Black American, Kuwaiti, Indonesian artist and creative researcher, raised in Kuwait and based in New York City.
Primarily grounded in the body and connecting somatic movement, sound, and visual documentation, Aminah explores the geographies of identity, body politics, and body as spiritual instrument. Through meditative modes of improvisation and an intimate relationship with ritual garb and adornment, some movement explorations are witnessed in their liveness as rituals of self-reckoning and a reclamation of autonomy. Other works are developed into video artworks and multimedia installations, investigating the struggle between an exposed surveillance and an abstracted self-censorship.
Developing their practice and attaching sensibilities of performance and ephemerality to sculpture, new sculptural works incorporate natural materials, clothing, chainmail, embroidery, and text.
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photo by Gillian Garcia
education
2017 M.A. in Sound Art, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, UK
2015 Post-Graduate Diploma in Music Production & Recording, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2014 B.S. in TV, Radio, Film, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
solo exhibition
2022 (forthcoming), Duplex, New York, NY
group exhibitions
2021 Body Dissolve, Duplex, New York, NY
2019 No Friction, Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Memories, Protein Studios, London, UK
2017 Daily Concerns, Dilston Grove, London, UK
residencies
2021 Resident Artist, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
performances
2022 (forthcoming), Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Come back to me, don't explain, Radical Acts, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
2021 The longest breath, Enduring Apocalypse, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2021 The longest breath, Stage Dive+, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated", Untitled Affairs, Fort Makers, New York, NY
2020 Clay Bodies, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, NY
2020 untitled, H0L0, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Young Boy Dancing Group, OCD Chinatown, New York, NY
2019 back & forth, agnes b. Galerie Boutique, New York, NY
2019 50/50, Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 sugar, lemon, water, Evening Hours, New York, NY
2019 untitled, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY
2018 ‘Can they give a ***** privacy?’, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2017 Under the Sun Rug (collaboration w/ Mac Melrose), Burlington Fringe Festival, Burlington, VT
2016 Ecology of the Voice by David Toop, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
2016 untitled, Freud Museum London, London, UK
video art screenings
2019 figure 3, DIY Space for London, London, UK
2019 sorry, The Box, New York, NY
2018 sorry, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2017 sorry, Milkhaus Art Festival, Ferrisburgh, VT