Author: Lamia Abukhadra

Lamia Abukhadra (b. 1996) is a Palestinian American artist currently based in Beirut and Minneapolis. Her interdisciplinary research-based practice subverts harmful dominant narratives which perpetuate the settler colonial imagination as well as acts of ethnic cleansing in Palestine and its diasporic spaces.
Lamia graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in interdisciplinary studio art in 2018 and is a 2019-2020 Home Workspace Program Fellow at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut. Her work has been exhibited at Waiting Room, the Quarter Gallery, Soo Visual Arts Center, Yeah Maybe, and the Katherine E. Nash Gallery in Minneapolis and in Chicago at Unpacked Mobile Gallery. Lamia is a 2018-2019 Jerome Emerging Printmaking Resident at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, a 2019 resident at ACRE and the University of Michigan’s Daring Dances initiative, and a recipient of a 2017 Soap Factory Rethinking Public Spaces grant.