Nasrah Omar (she/her) is an artist, re-imagining through world-building in photographic, AR/VR and collaged realms. Her work probes narratives of visibility, connection and regeneration with the cultivation of affirming paracosms.
Interlacing layered threads of the South Asian diaspora, ecology, ritual, folklore, pan-psychism, material culture and technology, she constructs fantastical realms of healing through entanglements. Mediated through carefully crafted, lurid tableaus, Nasrah's work explores pathways to de-colonial futurities; traversing the realms of the sensory, simulated and sublime.
She holds a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts and lives and works in Lenapehoking (Queens, NY).
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Forthcoming) In Continuum (a circle of invocation), Queens, NY
2024 Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2024 The Leap Year Show, Meadow Street Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Personally Yours, Density Press, Online Exhibition
2023 The In-between, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland
2023 The Bright Side, Williamsburgh Library, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Homecoming, Sotheby's, New York, NY
2023 Through Fire and Thunder, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Proteus Effect, Google Arts & Culture Online
2023 Small File Photo Festival, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2022 Proteus Effect XV, Favorite Photograph 2022, Lenscratch, Online Exhibition
2022 Folio, Ph Museum, Bologna, Italy
2022 Living Creatures, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2022 Undisclosed Resource: Horror Show, Local Host Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
2021 Phantasmagoria II, NewArt.City x Edition365, Virtual (VR) Exhibition / NFT
2021 Reconstructed Magazine, Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair
2020 ICP Concerned, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2020 Togethering, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2019 South Brooklyn Open Studios, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Gowanus Open Studios, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2017 Whitney Houston Biennial, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / FEATURES
(Forthcoming) Enclaves
Aperture
Portrait of Humanity Vol 5 (Hoxton Mini Press)
Unthinking.Photography (SmalFilePhotoFestival)
Dark Matters Zine Spring 2022 (transparency), School for Poetic Computation
Veer Zine, Vol 1, Authority Collective
Unthinking.Photography x SmallFilePhotoFestival
ICP Concerned (global Images for a global crisis)
Der Greif
Booooooom
Polyester Zine
Azeema Magazine
Salty
Rice & Spice Magazine
Vogue Italia PhotoVogue
FotoNostrum
Don't Take Pictures
Nearness Project
Curated by Girls
LensScratch
Lens Culture
Life Framer
WRITING
Reclaiming Colonized Frontiers
AWARDS / SHORTLISTS
2024 New Work Grant, Queens Arts Fund x NYFA
2023 British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity Shortlist
2022 Google Image Equity Fellowship (x Aperture, For Freedoms, FreeTheWork, CreativeTheory)
2022 NYFA Rauschenberg Emergency Grant
2021 British Journal of Photography Edition 365
2021 Ph Museum Folio
2021 Art of Freelance Workshop Scholarship
2020 Culture Push Freelancer Relief Fund
2020 XV Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Still life)
COMMISSIONS / EDITORIAL PROJECTS
Galerie Magazine
Gaze Magazine
Kajal Magazine
Not Just A Label