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Nasrah Omar (she/her) is an artist, re-imagining through world-building in photographic, AR/VR and collaged realms. Her work probes narratives of regeneration, connection and visibility through cultivated paracosms of healing.

Please send all enquiries to

 NasrahOmarStudio@Gmail.com 

@nasrah__omar

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 an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art.

 

 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2025 Emulsions Podcast: A Photo Book Group Show, 277 W 22 St, New York, NY 

2025 Gathering Place: Layered Histories, Griffin Museum of Photography, Online Exhibition

2025 Seeds of Revolution Tarot, Zine Mela, WIP Space, London

2025 Trace, Free Range x Zinnia Collective, PhotoBook Cafe, London

2025 Delivered at the Witching Hour, Unlock Pizza, London

2025 Trace (In Continuum), MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London

2025 Growing Narratives, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, London

2025 Deep Time, Television Centre, London 

2024 The Artist Must Take Sides, Swords Into Plowshares, Detroit, MI

2024 Correspondence, Baxter St CCNY, New York, 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

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

2022 Proteus Effect XV, Favorite Photograph 2022, Lenscratch, Online  Exhibition

2022 Folio, Ph Museum, Bologna

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

AWARDS / SHORTLISTS

2024 The Royal Photographic Society IPE 166 Shortlist

2024 Photo Lucida Critical Mass Finalist 

2024 SUGi x Nava Contemporary New Nature Award

2024 The Royal Photographic Society Postgraduate Bursary Shortlist

2024 Rose Finn-Kelcey Bursary

2024 Deputy Vice Chancellor's International Scholarship (Royal College of Art)

2024 Culture Push, Fellowship for a Utopian Practice

2024 Queens Arts Fund x NYFA, New Work Grant

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 Bookmaking Workshop

2021 Art of Freelance, Workshop Scholarship

2020 Culture Push, Freelancer Relief Fund

2020 XV Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Still life

​​SELECTED PUBLICATIONS​ / FEATURES

Source Magazine (Graduate Photography Online 2025) 

Seeds of Revolution Tarot (Offprint London, Tate Modern)

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​

RESIDENCIES

2025 (Forthcoming) MORTEM, Biophilium (Ayatana Artists’ Research Program)

2025 (Forthcoming) Conditions Studio, London (Online Residency)

WRITING

Reclaiming Colonized Frontiers

COMMISSIONS / EDITORIAL PROJECTS 

Mushroom People Magazine

Galerie Magazine 

Gaze Magazine 

Kajal Magazine 

Arielle Shoshana 

Not Just A Label

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