Hangama Amiri

Hangama A. Amiri is an Afghan-Canadian artist whose art practice addresses issues of gender equality, sexual oppression, and culture through personal and sociopolitical lives of women in Central and East Asian countries. She is 2013 winner of the Portia White Protege Award. Pieces in her graduation exhibition (NSCAD B.F.A, Major in Fine Arts ‘12) were later at Unit 24 Gallery next to Tate Modern in London and garnered an interview with the BBC and praise ‘Te Spectator’. Her collaborative video art “Dome of Secret Desires” was shortlisted at the 7th International Arte Laguna Prize 2013 in Venice, Italy, as well as for the 5th Passion For Freedom Festival in London, UK (2013). Her recent collaborative video art “My Motherland” was exhibited part of Inaugural Film Series at Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, ON 2015, as well as Reel Women Hong Kong Festival 2015. Just recently, her painting “Island of Dreams” won an Honourable mention at the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.