One-person Exhibits & Installations
Title TBD, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2025 (forthcoming)
The Self-Help Library, Practical Arts, Phoenix, AZ, 2024
A New Home (commissioned public art), Alamar, Avondale, AZ, 2023
Concerned but Powerless, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ, 2018
Concerned but (still) Powerless, The Newton, Phoenix, AZ, 2018
Bruised, Artisphere, Arlington, VA, 2015
A Bunch of Crock, Bragg’s Pie Factory Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2010
Group Exhibits & Installations
Journey to the Homeland, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, 2024 (forthcoming)
Arizona Biennial 2024, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, 2024 (forthcoming)
Alhamdu: Muslim Futurism, Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, 2024
Immigration Film Festival, Washington D.C., 2024
Alhamdu: Muslim Futurism, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, 2024
Roadside Attraction, Scottsdale MOCA, Scottsdale, AZ, 2024
Bienal Fronteriza, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Juárez, Mexico, 2024
Border Biennial, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, 2024
Homeward Bound, Central Gallery at Burton Barr, Phoenix, AZ, 2024
Language in Times of Miscommunication, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ, 2023
Contemporary Video Art Exhibition, 12Gates, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, 2023
23rd Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition, Found:Re, Phoenix, AZ, 2023
Anniversary Show, Practical Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2023
The Future of Printmaking, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ, 2023
Muslim Futurism: Alhamdu, Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Durham, NC, 2022
The Self-Help Library (comissioned public art), Tempe Public Library, Tempe, AZ, 2022
Tense, Modified Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2022
Anniversary Show, Practical Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2022
Arts Opens Minds (commissioned public art), Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, 2021
West: Arizona Artists of Color, Civic Center Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 2021
Anniversary Show, Practical Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2021
The Square, Modified Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2020
The Value of Sanctuary: Building a House Without Walls, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, 2019
PRELUDE: A Preview of Aurora 2017, Dallas, TX, 2016
Envisioning Election and Politics in 2016, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ, 2016
The Future, Cartagena Data Festival, Cartagena, Columbia, 2015
The Future, TED2015 Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2015
Mixtape, 6th Avenue Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2013
For Your Entertainment, Monorchid, Phoenix, AZ, 2012
Untitled, Gallery 355, Phoenix, Arizona, 2012
Heat, Practical Arts, Phoenix, AZ, 2012
You Are Here, Regular Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2011
Fall, Regular Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2011
Columbus International Film Festival, Columbus, OH, 2010
And Everything Was Alright, Bragg’s Pie Factory Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2008
Awards & Recognition
Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award, 2024
The Jane Reddin Residency at Practical Art, 2024
Creative Capital Shortlist, 2024
American Advertising Awards, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2015
Define American Fellow 2023
AAPI Fund Creative Catalyst Fellow 2023
Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards, 2023, 2022, 2021
Define American Project Grant, 2023
23rd Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition, second place award, 2023
Arizona Commission on the Arts Research & Development Grant, 2023
World Changing Ideas Award finalist, Fast Company, 2017
TED Senior Fellow, 2015
TED Fellow, 2013
Adobe 99U Fellow, 2012
Phoenix New Times Big Brain Award Winner (Visual Arts), 2011
Columbus International Film Festival, Winner Experimental Shorts, 2010
Phoenix New Times Big Brain Award Finalist (Film & Video), 2010
Talks & Lectures
Artist talk, Festival of the Arts, Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA, 2024
Southwest Contemporary: Medium + Support, MOCA Tucson, AZ, 2023
Archive+Memory, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, 2023
Keynote, Phoenix Design Week Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2023
Words Matter, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, 2023
Keynote, Converging Pathways, VASTA Conference, Sonoma, CA, 2022
Brophy College Preparatory, Phoenix, AZ, 2020
Keynote, Leadership Day, Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL, 2020
Inclusive Design Panel, Phoenix Design Week, Phoenix AZ, 2017
“What is Normal?”, TED Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2016
Method+Madness Design Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2015
Creative Mornings, Phoenix, AZ, 2014
Urban Design Week, Phoenix, AZ, 2013
TEDxPhoenix Salon, Tempe, AZ 2013
“Combating absurdity with humor”, TED Conference, Long Beach, CA 2013