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Noormah Jamal

@noormah.jamal

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NYC based multidisciplinary artist.
Current : Wavehill artist talk Oct 18 3pm.

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Wave Hill’s Meet the Artists public program with Sonya Posmentier on: Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM

I’ll be in conversation with poet and NYU professor Sonya Posmentier, who will activate the installation with a poetry

Meet the Artists — October 18 at 3:00 PM
Curated by Afriti Bankwalla with assistance from Gabriel de Guzman and Rachel Gugelberger.
Installation courtesy of Rajiv Menon Contemporary.

Noormah Jamal is a New York based Multidisciplinary artist. Her practice begins with drawing as a way of thinking through memory, symbolism, and inherited history. Her image making and sculptures are deeply rooted in the oral histories and identity of her community and family.

Sonya Posmentier is a professor and writer in New York City. She is the author of Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017). Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, English Literary History, American Literary History, Public Books, and elsewhere.

Afriti Bankwalla is a Parsi-Zoroastrian researcher, writer, curator, and doll-maker based in Harlem. Her academic and curatorial work, which often focuses on themes surrounding labor, queer vernacular art, and expressions of feminism through DIY or craft-based art practices, is heavily influenced by her previous work as a costume designer for drag queens across Chicago. by @noormah.jamal

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My installation Blooms is on view at Wave Hill.

The installation brings together hand-built ceramic figures emerging from gravel, creating a landscape that considers the relationship between people, place, and memory. The work draws from my connection to my hometown of Peshawar, Pakistan, a city whose name translates to “city of flowers,” despite its dry landscape and one shaped by a complex and often difficult socio-political history of colonialism, conflict, migration, and displacement. In Blooms, I imagine the people who inhabit the city as its flowers, each emerging from and belonging to the landscape in their own way. The surfaces of the sculptures are carved with individual terrains, allowing each figure to hold fragments of place, memory, and lived experience.
The installation runs through October 19.

📍 Wave Hill, Bronx
📅 On view through October 19, 2026
🎤 Meet the Artists: October 18, 3:00 PM
🌸 Poetry reading with Sonya Posmentier
🖼️ curated by Afriti Bankwalla with assistance from Gabriel de Guzman and Rachel Gugelberger.
📸 photo credits Stephan

Installation courtesy of Rajiv Menon Contemporary.

#ceramics #wavehill #blooms #peshawar by @noormah.jamal

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Thank you Arun Kakar and @artsy for choosing “Meena/Veena” as one of the top shows for AAPI heritage month.

This is the last week to view the exhibition before it closes on Saturday! taken in Hollywood, California by @noormah.jamal

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This Sunday please join me in conversation with poet @posmentier and curator @a_free_tea at @wavehill 3pm!
This marks the culminating event of Blooms at Wavehill.
So grateful to @gabrield3 and @rachelgugelberger for the support.
RSVP link in bio.
Photo credit : Alice Cabrera by @noormah.jamal

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Dancing weeds.
Oil pastel and colour pencils on arches paper.

This does not photograph well.

Nor this.good texture. Not true colour.
But I’ve been here 5 years now.

And this week have gotten into daily drawing that’s feeling rather generative.

So that’s a positive even though this isn’t photographing well.

Maybe I should title it non-photogenic dancing weeds. by @noormah.jamal

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Nafisa Rizvi reviews ‘Geography of Memory’ a group show held at Canvas Art Gallery between May 5th -14th, 2026. The participating artists include Ruby Chishti, Noormah Jamal, Usaydh Agha and Mustafa Mohsin.

“It is interesting that all four artists are diasporic and they address concerns that are universal, no matter what their pictorial vocabulary or mode of questioning. And we have to begin to view cerebral art like the art shown here in the larger scheme of things. Some art critics believe art has a wider pluralistic and global role which is diversification and heterogeneity so that it may be absorbed into mainstream culture. Artists could work towards this goal.” @nafisarizvi

Title image: Ruby Chishti, I Step Away, 2026, Recycled cloth, polyester fiber, synthetic moss, archival glue, 14 x 10 x 10 inches

Slide 2: Mustafa Mohsin, Haram, 2026, Oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches

Slide 3: Mustafa Mohsin, Bearing Witness II, 2026, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

Slide 4: Ruby Chishti, Invisible Columns III, 2026, Recycled cloth, polyester fiber, wool, twine, polystyrene, 18 x 6 x 26 inches

Slide 5: Ruby Chishti, I Hold, I Stop, I Fall, 2026, Recycled cloth, polyester fiber, wool, twine, foam, polystyrene, 8 x 8 x 15 inches

Slide 6 top image: Usaydh Agha, The Deposition, 2025, Oil on canvas, 59 x 79 inches

Slide 6 bottom image: Usaydh Agha, Prayer To, 2025, Oil on canvas, 59 x 79 inches

Slide 7: Noormah Jamal, Masharaan (Elders), 2023, Oil pastels and colour pencils on arches paper, 12 x 16 inches

Slide 8: Noormah Jamal, Beti # 1, 2025, Oil pastels and colour pencils on arches paper, 16 x 12 inches

To read the full article, please visit our website. Link in bio.

#tkcdiscursive #thekarachicollective taken in Canvas Gallery by @noormah.jamal

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🌐 🇮🇳🇵🇰 @goodneighbordesigncamp “From Baltimore to the World” — Friday, September 18th — India & Pakistan - Baltimore 🇵🇰🇮🇳 🌐

This year’s theme, “From Baltimore to the World,” is a celebration of our city as a global design hub. Free and open to the public for inspiration, learning, and connection, Design Camp ‘26 highlights the design diversity in Baltimore through talks, art installations, community-building events, and workshops. In keeping with this year’s theme, Design Camp ‘26 will bridge design cultures from around the world.

📡 9am - 12 noon | @perfectmemoryradio - Color of Frequencies: Bashment at @goodneighborguesthouse
Flowing between the Indus, the Ganges, and Baltimore’s harbor, this broadcast examines how music from Bhangra and Bmore Club and artist such as Charanjit Singh to Ultra Nate film, poetry, and migration create new cultural rhythms across South Asian and Black diasporas in the city with Elissa Blount Moorhead (@ebmoorhead), Pierre Bennu (@exittheapple), and Xavier Walker (@pocketdweller_).

🎤 6pm - 8pm | Evening Inspiration w/ Noormah Jamal, Shradha Kochhar, Joya Mukerjee Logue at good nieghbor (3827 Falls Rd)
Textile artist and educator Shradha Kocchar (@shradhakochhar) is back this year, and invites her friends and artists Noormah Jamal (@noormah.jamal) and Joya Mukerjee Logue (@joya_mukerjee_logue) to a conversation on their practices.
 We’ll also be featuring a special Chaat Night menu by good neighbor’s food and bar team. 
You can RSVP for each day of Design Camp ’26 and our Open Hands Day Studio Crawl via the link in our bio  Thank you to this years sponsors:
Our fiscal sponsor, Charm City Cultural Cultivation (@charmcity_cc)
Wide Angle Youth Media Design (@wideangleyouthmedia)
MICA Graphic Design Program (@mica_gdmfa)
Forest House West Virginia (@forest.house.wv)
CLLCTIVLY (@cllctivly)
And all of our individual campers, like you! taken in Baltimore, Maryland by @noormah.jamal

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Tennis stars 2.
Of sisters and borders. by @noormah.jamal

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Tennis stars.
Of sisters and borders.

#usopen #tennis by @noormah.jamal

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The opening of " The Geography of Memory " @ Canvas Gallery.

The works reflect on themes of displacement , memory , nostalgia and the power of observation as an outsider , looking inwards.

Originally from Pakistan , the participating artists ; Mustafa Mohsin , Noormah Jamal , Ruby Chishti and Usaydh Agha are currently based in the UK and USA .

The exhibition remains open daily until Thursday , May 14th 2026 , from 11 am - 7 pm ( Sundays closed ) taken in Canvas Gallery by @noormah.jamal

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Drawings on view @canvasgallerykhi
Oil pastel and colour pencils on arches paper by @noormah.jamal

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" The Geography of Memory " , opens on Tuesday , May 5th , 2026 , from 4 pm - 7 pm @ Canvas Gallery.

The works reflect on themes of displacement , memory , nostalgia and the power of observation as an outsider , looking inwards.

Originally from Pakistan , the participating artists ; Mustafa Mohsin , Noormah Jamal , Ruby Chishti and Usaydh Agha are currently based in the UK and USA .

The exhibition remains open daily until Thursday , May 14th 2026 , from 11 am - 7 pm ( Sundays closed ) taken in Canvas Gallery by @noormah.jamal

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