BIO
Nasrah Omar (she/her) is an artist working with photography, AR/VR and collage. Her lurid, densely layered narratives are an ongoing inquiry into the mythologization of objects, rituals and cultivation of liberatory avenues through digital realms.
With an undercurrent of humor and subversion, her varied practice is a reflection of the kaleidoscope of South Asian visual culture and identity, a manufacturing of the fantastical and an examination of the chimeric language of material culture to probe the spurious, sensory and sublime. Color is employed as an agent of contamination and to convey the otherworldly throughout her photographic vernacular.
She holds a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts and a Perfumery Certification from Cinquième Sens and Pratt Institute. She lives and works in Queens, NY.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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, 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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / FEATURES
ICP Concerned (global Images for a global crisis)
Der Greif
Booooooom
Polyester Zine
Azeema Magazine
Salty
Vogue Italia PhotoVogue
FotoNostrum
Don't Take Pictures
Nearness Project
Curated by Girls
Life Framer
WRITING
Reclaiming Colonized Frontiers
AWARDS / SELECTION
2021 British Journal of Photography Edition 365
2021 Ph Museum Folio
2021Art of Freelance workshop scholarship
2020 XV Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Still life)
COMMISSIONS / COMMERCIAL WORK
Sotheby's
Galerie Magazine
Gaze Magazine
Kajal Magazine
Not Just A Label
Wildflower + Co