Photography by Paul Tucker. Courtesy of The Ingram Collection & Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop
Orna
Kazimi is a visual artist based in London. Orna’s work and research explore
personal encounters with migration in relation to collective trauma and memories of
displacement through drawings, installation and writing.
Her work has received
recognitions and nominations for a wide range of prizes and grants such as Ingram Art Prize in 2021 (shortlisted) and the Writers
Grant funded by Creative Debuts in 2020.
Her works have been shown at Void Gallery (Northern Ireland), Unit1 Gallery
and Workshop (London), Lethaby Gallery (London), Tate Exchange - Tate Modern (London), Centre de la Gravure - La Louviere, TCNJ Art Gallery (New Jersey), Imago
Mundi (Milan), Theca Gallery - Milan, Queen’s Palace (Kabul). She was awarded the
Caspian Arts Foundation Scholarship (2016) and completed a master’s degree in
Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2018).
Education
2018 MA Fine Art [Grade: Distinction] - Central Saint Martins -University of the Arts London
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Twenty Years: The War in Afghanistan - Blacktown Arts Centre - Australia
2022 Above Us the Milky Way - Void Gallery - Derry - UK
2022
Death Starts from Toes - Artist Talk -
The Mosaic Rooms - London
2021 Ingram Prize 2021 - Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop - London
2021 contact - Kerry Packer Civic Gallery - Adelaide - Australia
2019 Alter Us Collective Manifesto Declaration Event - Old Bath - London
2019 The Horse’s Mouth Open Art Crit - The Bomb Factory Art Foundation - London
2018 Degree Show, Lethaby Gallery - London
2018 Overpr!nt - Centre de la Gravure - La Louviere
2018 What Can We Make and Become - Art Exposed Project Gallery - London
2018 Sight and Sound Workshop at Tate Exchange - Tate Modern Gallery - London
2018 Overprint Presentation- Tate Exchange - Tate Modern Gallery - London
2017 Round-table Discussion on “Art and Activism”- SOAS - London
2017 Somehow You and I Collide -MA Interim Show- Mangle gallery - London
2015 Map of The New Art - Imago Mundi - Milan
2015 The Collective - Theca Gallery - Milan
2014 Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan - TCNJ Art Gallery - New Jersey
2013 4th Afghan Contemporary Art Prize - Queen’s Palace - Kabul
2013 Beirut Contemporary Art Fair - Nikki Diana Marquardt Gallery - Paris
Solo Show
2013 Birth - Institute of France in Afghanistan - Kabul
Awards and Commissions
2021 Finalist for Ingram Prize 2021
2021 Propagate This project - A community based project Commissioned by Turf Projects
2021 The White Pube writers grant funded by Creative Debuts
2019 Internship at TinType Gallery
2016 Winner of the Caspian Arts Foundation scholarship
2014 Shortlisted for 4th Afghan Art Prize
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