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.
Nasrah's work interlaces layered experiences of the South Asian diaspora, material culture and syncretism, employing color as an agent of contamination and augmentation of the fantastical throughout her photographic vernacular. Mediated through carefully crafted, lurid tableaus, she explores pathways to decolonial 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
2023 Through Fire and Thunder, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Small Files Photo Festival, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2022 Proteus Effect XV, Favorite Photograph 2022, Lenscratch, Virtual 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 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 Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Whitney Houston Biennial, Chashama, New York, NY
2016 Juried Winter Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Nature in the age of digital reproduction, Figment, New York, NY
2015 Phantasmagoria screening, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY
2014 SVA BFA, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / FEATURES
(Forthcoming) Enclaves
Aperture
Portrait of Humanity Vol 5 (Hoxton Mini Press)
Unthinking.Photography (SmalFilePhotoFestival)
Dark Matters (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
2023 British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity 2023 Shortlist
2022 Google Image Equity Fellowship (x Aperture, For Freedoms, FreeTheWork, CreativeTheory)
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
Sotheby's
Galerie Magazine
Gaze Magazine
Kajal Magazine
Not Just A Label