
Hiba Ali is a digital artist, educator, scholar, DJ, experimental music producer and curator based across Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, and Toronto, ON. Their performances and videos concern surveillance, womxn/ womyn of colour, and labour. She studies Afro-Indo-Arab geographies across the Indian Ocean through music, cloth and ritual. They conduct reading groups addressing digital media and workshops with open-source technologies. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queens University, Kingston, Canada. They are an Assistant Professor of Art, New Media Artist/Feminist Art Discourse, College of Design, Art & Technology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. She has presented their work in Chicago, Stockholm, Vienna, Berlin, Toronto, New York, Istanbul, São Paulo, Detroit, Windsor, Dubai, Austin, Vancouver, and Portland. They have written for C Magazine, THE SEEN Magazine, Newcity Chicago, Art Dubai, The State, VAM Magazine, ZORA: Medium, RTV Magazine, and Topical Cream Magazine.
Chicago / Toronto / Austin
Instagram: @h1ba_al1
EDUCATION
- 2022
- Queens University, Kingston, ON
PhD in Cultural Studies - 2018
- University of Austin - Texas, Austin, TX
Masters in Fine Arts in Transmedia - 2013
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Arts in Visual, Critical Studies - 2012
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video, New Media and Animation
RESIDENCIES
- 2020
- ADA DADA Residency, Toronto, ON
- Squeaky Wheel Artist and Mentor in Residence, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
- Forest City Gallery Instagram Takeover, London, ON
- South Asia.Art Instagram Micro-Residency, New York City, NY
- LEFT Contemporary Instagram Takeover, Windsor, ON
- Daïmôn Virtual Residencies, Gatineau, QC
- 2019
- Near North Mobile Media Lab Instagram Takeover, North Bay, ON
- Images Festival Forum, Images Festival, Toronto, ON
- Video Art Residency, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
- 2018
- Invited: Media Archaeology Lab Residency Program, Denver, CO
- CONNECT Curatorial Residency, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
- 2017
- Welcome to my Homepage, Museum of Human Achievement, Online & Austin, TX
- ACRE – Session 1, Steuben, WI
- Residency: Digital Mapping and Politics of Place, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
Arranged by Modern Fuel & South Asian Visual Art Centre (SAVAC) - 2016
- ACRE – Session 2, Steuben, WI
DISTRIBUTION
- VTape
- • Postcolonial Language (2013)
- • H1BA - CURSES (2019)
- • Shura City (2014)
- • Neo-neon (2012)
AWARDS
- 2020
- OHC Sponsorship, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
- Principal's Student Initiatives Fund, Principal's Office, Queens University
- 2019-20 Graduate Dean’s Doctoral Field Travel Grant, The School of Graduate Studies, Queens University
- PSAC 901 Labour Research/Arts Scholarship, PSAC 901 Union
PRESS
- 2020
- May Alkharafi, Street Photography Ethics Beyond Consent: A Relational Approach to an Ethics of Encounter, The Graduate School, Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020
- Press Release: Residency Announcement, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
- Welcome New Faculty!, College of Design, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
- Article: Your Eyes Don't Lie, Ariana Dongus, NXS #4 Algorithmic Anxiety, NXS Side Nodes PT. 3, NXS World, Amsterdam, NE
- Artist and educator Hiba Ali on reframing productivity, Creative Independent
- Podcast: Interview with Edna Bonhomme: Season 2, Episode 8: I don't center domination, Decolonization in Action Podcast, Berlin, DE
- Podcast: Interview with Ariel Jackson, Cage Match Projects, Austin, TX
- Review: Cluster XI Digital Edition – Online Festival, Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Akimblog
- 2019
- Interview: Meet Peccy, the bizarre, beloved mascot you didn’t know Amazon had, Henry McCracken, Fast Company
- Review: Autotheory: Hiba Ali, Madelyne Beckles, Thirza Cuthand, Andrew James Paterson, Evan Tyler, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Chelsea Rozansky, C Magazine, Issue 141, Graphic Design, Spring 2019
- 2018
- Interview: Hiba Ali Worked at an Amazon Fulfillment Center and Makes Art About it, Drew Zeiba, Vulture
- Review: Femme new media cause for 'Palpitations', KT Hawbaker, Chicago Tribune
- Review: Between the Body and the Touchscreen: A Review of “Her Environment #7: Murmurs and Palpitations” at TCC Gallery, Luke Fidler, Newcity
- Episode 649: Hiba Ali, Bad at Sports Podcast, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL
- 2021
- Indian Ocean Series, SAVAC, Toronto, ON and OHC, Eugene, OR
- 2018
- i/C/U: Connection & Control exhibition, S1, Portland, OR
- U.N.I.T: MUSIC, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
- U.N.I.T, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
- homeschool pdx: i/C/U Reading Group 2, Yale Union, Portland, OR & online
- homeschool pdx: i/C/U Reading Group 1, Yale Union, Portland, OR & online
- VYTYDYGYTY PREZENCE(S) Performance evening, Chaired by Rachael Milton and Hiba Ali, MOHA, Austin, TX
- VYTYDYGYTY Workshop: Making video-games with Unity, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX; Curated and led by Hiba Ali
- VYTYDYGYTY Workshop: Digital Sculpture with Blender, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX; Curated and led by Hiba Ali
- VYTYDYGYTY Reading Group, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX; Curated and led by Hiba Ali
WORKSHOPS
- 2021
- upcoming
- 2020
- Unity Workshop, 60-210 Electronic Media Studio: Introduction to Interactivity, Lindsey French, Fall 2020, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Online: Introduction to Adobe After Effects Workshop Part 2, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
- Online: Introduction to Adobe After Effects Workshop Part 1, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
- Unity Workshop Part 2 (Cancelled due to COVID-19), LIFT, Toronto, ON
- Unity Workshop Part 1 (Cancelled due to COVID-19), LIFT, Toronto, ON
- Blender Workshop Part 2 (Cancelled due to COVID-19), LIFT, Toronto, ON
- Blender Workshop Part 1 (Cancelled due to COVID-19), LIFT, Toronto, ON
- Blender Workshop, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
- 360 Theta Workshop, Charles Street, Video, Toronto, ON
- Rescheduled: Unity Workshop: 3D Maze, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
- Rescheduled: Blender Workshop: Digital Water, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
- Hyperreal Sensations Workshop 3: Screening, Interaccess Toronto, ON
- Hyperreal Sensations Workshop 2: Video Editing, Interaccess Toronto, ON
- Hyperreal Sensations Workshop 1: 3D Animation, Interaccess Toronto, ON
- 2019
- Blender Workshop, Winter 2019, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, ON
- Multi-media Storytelling Workshop: Wix & Twine, Winter 2019, Queens Film and Media, STSC 339 Film and Performance, Keren Zaiontz, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Arts, Kingston, ON, CA
- Hack Your Home Archive: Hacking, DigiLab, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Arts, Queens Film and Video, Kingston, ON; Led by Hiba Ali
- Hack Your Home Archive: Digitizing, DigiLab, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Arts, Queens Film and Video, Kingston, ON; Led by Hiba Ali
- Hack Your Home Archive: Archiving, DigiLab, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Arts, Queens Film and Video, Kingston, ON
- Adobe After Effects Workshop Part 2, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
- Adobe After Effects Workshop Part 1, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
- Autodesk Maya Workshop Part 1 & 2, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
- 2018
- Video Production for Digital Media (Emily Pelstring) Blender Workshop, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Arts, Queens Film and Video, Kingston, ON
- i/C/U: Connection & Control Blender Workshop, Portland Northwest Art College, Portland, OR
- VYTYDYGYTY Workshop: Making video-games with Unity, Gallery, Austin, TX; Curated and led Hiba Ali
- VYTYDYGYTY Workshop: Digital Sculpture with Blender, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX; Curated and led Hiba Ali
- NET NEUTRALITY READING GROUP 2: Surveillance and Agency (organized in conjunction with Welcome to My Homepage Residency,) Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
- NET NEUTRALITY READING GROUP 1: Fiber Optics, Gender and Race (organized in conjunction with Welcome to My Homepage Residency,) Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
- 2017
- Blender 3D Sculpture Workshop, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
- Interconnectivity and Affect Walking Tour (Collaboration with Stefy McKnight), Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
- Animaps Workshop, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
- 2016
- Digimagine: Constructing 3D Sculpture, Nadi Al-Quoz, Dubai, UAE; Arranged by Alserkal Avenue
GATHERINGS
- 2020
- Art Writing Workshop, led by Yaniya Lee, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB
- Black Womxn Time Camp (004), Black Quantum Futurism
- Race & US Muslim Communities, 4-week Zoom course, Led by Associate Professor Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik, Departments of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
- Unpacking Caste + Class Reading Group Series, Led by Yoga Instructor and former Organizer, Jasmin Thana
- Black Feminist Summer School 2020, Led by Instructor & Doctoral Student, Ebony Oldham, Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angles, Online
- El Cambalache: Make Your Own Non-Capitalist Economy Bootcamp, Led by Dr. Erin Araujo, Department of Decolonial Economics, San Cristobal de las Casa, Chiapas, Mexico
- Dark Matters, Led by American Artist, School for Poetic Computation, NYC, New York
LECTURES & PANELS
- 2021
- On the language of anti-Blackness and the Indian Ocean: Hiba Ali with Jazmin Graves and Beheroze Shroff, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
- 2020
- Artist talk: Hiba Ali, Option + Shift: Online Lecture Series, Artcite, Windsor, ON
- Artist Talk, 60-210 Electronic Media Studio: Introduction to Interactivity, Lindsey French, Fall 2020, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Artist Talk, Squeaky Wheel Artist and Mentor in Residence, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
- Artist Talk, Intermediate Video Production Course, Intermedia Program of Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
- Chapter 3 & 4 Summary Speaker, Algorithms Of Oppression Book Club And Study Group, Co-hosted by Feminist.AI and the Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
- Amazonification under COVID-19: How Crisis Produce Crisis , Summer 2020, Queering Media Theory: Women in Computation III Course , Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Matteo Pasquinelli, Ariana Dongus, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Future Faculty Career Exploration Program, Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment, Rochester Insitute of Technology, Rochester, New York
- Panel: Calling WhatsApp: Our Role in Black Liberation with Hiba Ali, Kazi Fouzia (DRUM) and Sharmin Hossain (Equality Labs), South Asians for Black Lives Program, Moderated by Equality Labs
- Invited: 9th Biennale Surveillance & Society Conference, Surveillance Studies Network, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Invited: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, Data Justice Lab 2020 Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Amazonification: Absorbing Workers of Color's Labor as Precarity and Weaponized Surveillance, FSAC Colloquium, York University, Toronto, ON
- Ctrl+Shift: Artists & Cyber Security Panel (with Sarah Friend, Aljumaine Gayle, and Jason Li,) Moderated by Matthew Braga, InterAccess, Toronto, ON
- 2019
- Tell-A-Star, Radical Networks Conference, New York, NYC
- Amazonification: Decoding scarcity as weaponized precarity, Our Networks Conference, Toronto, CA
- Invited:Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Amazonification of Bodies: Labor and Facial Recognition, Scan the Difference: Gender, Surveillance, and Bodies Series, VBKÖ (Association of Austrian Women,) Vienna, AU, Curated by Vanessa Gravenor, Nina Prader, and e. bonhomme
- Multiplatform Storytelling Lecture, Winter 2019, Queens Film and Media, STSC 339 Film and Performance, Keren Zaiontz, Kingston, ON
- 2018
- Hiba Ali: Fluidabilities: On Internet, Digital Art and the Law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Capital Factory, Austin, TX
- CIRCUIT_FLO-ID_SYSTEMS: HOW_ART_HACKX_THRU_BINDS workshop-lecture with Evelyn Contreras, Making Art, Shaping Society Conference, Feminist Action Project, UT-Austin SAC Center, Austin, TX
- Invited: 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2018) and the 5th Arts and Design Digital Festival (Digifest5) ISEA, Durban University of Technology, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- TFAP Meeting, The Feminist Art Project @ Rutgers University College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
- TalkAbout: Printmaking & Technology (Hiba Ali in conversation with Evelyn Contreras,) Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
- Go Amazonify Yourself!! Skype Lecture (in conjunction with Her Environment #7: Murmurs and Palpitations exhibition,) Online, Chicago, IL & Austin, TX
- 2017
- Virtualities and Realities: Open Fields Conference: Lecture - Deconstructing Network Visualities, Art Academy of Latvia, National Arts Museum and RIXC Gallery, Riga, LV
- Hemi GSI Convergence Conference: Experimental Collectivities, Collaborations, and (Dis)embodied Digital Experiences, York University and NYU, Toronto, ON
- Artist Lecture, COMMONS, SAVAC, Toronto, ON
- 2016
- Taxi Driver Justice Project (Collaboration with Project Prospera), Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI
PERFORMANCES
- 2020
- H1BA: Indian Ocean Mix II: Music as Ritual with Nada Sayed, Montez Press Radio, NYC, NY
- Sparkle Nation Book Club's Silent Reading Hour with H1BA: Indian Ocean Mix, Montez Press Radio, NYC, NY
- 2019
- Ariel’s Party: H1BA and Itsi, Hideout Inn, Chicago, IL
- H1BA with Nada El Shazly, Grad Club, Kingston, ON
- 2018
- H1BA - Alienated Rhythm Performance, Ori Gallery, Portland, OR
- Her Environment Fundraiser - Night Light : H1BA (Live set,) Digital Art Demo Space, Chicago, IL
- Boulevard Dreamers Showcase: HIBA (Live set,) Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- DISCWOMAN - Technofeminism: H1BA & Thoom (Live & DJ Set,) Bossa Nova Civic Club, NYC
- DISCWOMAN - Technofeminism: H1BA & Thoom (DJ set,) Lot Radio Mix, Lot Radio, NYC
- To Be a Box (performance with Lilia Taboada,) 2018 Studio Art MFA Thesis Colloquia: Part II, Austin, TX
- In Session: Migration as a layer, a food recipe as a layer, collage as a layer, a conversation as a layer, performance with Joel Mercedes, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
- H1BA Set, Story Bar, Native Hostel, Austin, TX
- H1BA: DRMIX, EXP 0001_01 Music Festival, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX; Arranged by JP/p1nkstar/iLOVEYOU
- H1BA: DRUM, EXP 0001_01 Music Festival, 21st Street Co-op, Austin, TX; Arranged by JP/p1nkstar/iLOVEYOU
- 2017
- Con-tain-er, Conflict Situations/Situational Conflict Performance Festival, 13th Street Repertory Theater, New York, NY; Arranged by Nick Faust, ACT UP
- I hate America, I love America: Discussion Forum, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL; Organized by Lucky Pierre
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
- 2020
- Alquimia Rítmica/Rhythmic Alchemy, Galería de Arte Sonoro / Sound Art Gallery, Austin, TX, Curated by Jay and Vlad
- Moving Ether Way, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON, Curated by Holly Chang and Karina Iskandarsjah
- Abra: Digital Exhibition, Left Contemporary, Windsor, ON
- Abra, External Space, Xpace Cultural Centre, Essay by Sajdeep Soomal, Toronto, ON
- Queer Islam Mini Reading List, zoonautic_crystal112 Digital Exhibition, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR
- The Struggle for Change, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
- Abra Screening, Curated by Katie Micak and Martin Zeilinger, Vector Festival 2020: Online Edition, Toronto, ON
- H1BA – CURSES Screening, V-Tape Program, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, GE
- Shura City Screening, Curated by VTape and CFMDC, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, GE
- Hiba Ali en résidence virtuelle Launch, as part of DAIMON Residency, Gatineau, QC & Online
- Abra Screening, Cluster Festival Digital Edition, Toronto, ON
- H1BA – CURSES Installation, Telegenic Arts Festival, Artist Project, Toronto, ON
- No Connections Book Launch, Glad Day, Toronto, ON
- 2019
- CURSES screening, Winter Jams MVP: Music Video, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON; Curated by Karina Iskandarsjah
- No Connections Book Launch + Flat Pack Launch Party, The Dude Ranch, Austin, TX; Organized by Connor Frew
- On the Tip of My Tongue (with Flat Pack Pubs), Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
- CURSES screening, Interference: Women Making Noise Fest 2019, North Door, Austin, TX, Curated by Tara Reed
- Con-tain-er Screening, Video Art Program, FILE-2019(Electronic Language International Festival), SESI Gallery of Art, Sao Paulo, BR
- H1BA: CURSES Screening, Sistership TV, Bump Television, Toronto, ON
- To Be A Box Screening, Scan the Difference: Gender, Surveillance, and Bodies Series, VBKÖ (Association of Austrian Women,) Vienna, AU, Curated by Vanessa Gravenor, Nina Prader, and e. bonhomme
- Abra Screening, Scan the Difference: Gender, Surveillance, and Bodies Series, VBKÖ (Association of Austrian Women,) Vienna, AU, Curated by Vanessa Gravenor, Nina Prader, and e. bonhomme
- Postcolonial Language, Autotheory Screening, Horse Hospital, London, UK, Curated by Lauren Fournier
- Abra screening, Video Fever 2019, Trinity Video Square, Toronto, ON
- 2018
- Tell A Star Installation, BOSSBABESTX Festival, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
- To Be A Box Screening, Women of the Global South and its Diasporas: Rights, Representation, Activism Symposium, University of Leeds, ENG
- Postcolonial Language_, Back by popular demand...Autotheory: The Screening, VTape, Online & Toronto, CA
- Untitled (grls) screening, ExTV September 2018 Monitor Programming, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Alienated Labor (with Jonathan Chacon), Ori Gallery, Portland, OR; Curated by Yun Chiu
- i/C/U (with homeschoopdx,) S1, Portland, OR, Curated by Hiba Ali
- U.N.I.T., Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curated by Hiba Ali
- Tell A Star Installation, Affordable Dreamhouse, MFA 2018 UT-Austin Thesis Exhibition, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX
- Postcolonial Language, Autotheory Screening, VTape, Online, Curated by Lauren Fournier
- THINKING OUTSIDE THE ‘NET: THE BOX THAT COULD TALK, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX; Organized by Welcome to My Homepage Residency
- Her Environment #7: Murmurs and Palpitations, TCC Gallery, Chicago, IL; Curated by Her Environment
- 2017
- Satellites Screening, Room before, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX; Curated by Veronica Roberts
- Con-tain-er Installation, An Elsewhere Within Here, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL; Curated by Josh Rios
- Hiba Ali: Modern Fuel Screening and Panel, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON 2017 Moderated by Keren Zaiontz and Miranda Ramnares, Queens University, KIngston, ON
- Satellites, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, ON
- The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago, IL
- New Normal, The Hangar – UMAM D&R, Istanbul, TR; Curated by Hiba Farhat and Murat Adash
- Property, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL; Curated by Nathan Smith
- Electric Women, Curated by Lauren Valley, Online
- The Feminist Art Project @ Rutgers University, Online
- Satellites Digital Commission, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
- 2016
- Take this Gum And Stick It (Collaboration with Diamond Antoinette Stingily), Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland; Curated by Nasrin Leahy
- PLAYSCAPES (Collaboration with Amina Ross), Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
- ON OFF SHORE (Commission for Vanessa Gravenor), Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany; Curated by Paul Feigelfeld
- A Screening Program, The Biopolitical Image (Commission for Vanessa Gravenor), CCA, ujazdowski castle, Warsaw, Poland
- CODE/SWITCH, Woman Made, Chicago, IL; Curated by Kayla Anderson
- Screening Series No. 1: In the Name of the Media, 456 Forum, New York, NY; Curated by William Song
- The Set Speaks ACRE TV (acretv.org), Chicago, IL; Curated by Amina Ross
- 2014
- Systema, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX; Curated by Aja Martin
- #EverythingAllAtOnce, White Cube, London, UK; Curated by 15 Folds
- Satellite, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX; Curated by Aja Martin
- Streetlight: Hiba Ali, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
- DRONES (Collaboration with Asher J. Kohn), Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI; Curated by Gallery Project
- 2013
- SCII TV: Neiman Center Debut, SAIC LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL Curated by EX TV and SUGS Projects
- The Wrong: The New Digital Art Biennale, Online; Curated by The Wrong
- versus Reality, SUGS LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, Chicago, IL; Curated by Snow Yunxue Fu and Hiba Ali
- DRONES (Collaboration with Asher J. Kohn), Eastern Market, Detroit, MI; Curated by Gallery Project
- Murmuration Drone Festival: Shura City, The State, Dubai, UAE
PUBLICATIONS
- 2021
- Hit List, Akimblog, Toronto, ON
- 2020
- Review: Hiba Ali, Architecture after the Asylum: Hannah Hull, Agata Mrozowski, Maria-Saroja Ponnambalam and Rupali Mozaria, arielle tai, Joe Wood , Issue 146: Humour, C Magazine, Toronto, ON
- Review: Over the Moon: Tabita Rezaire Offers Healing and Meditation Through Art, Newcity Art Magazine, Online
- Murmurs Book Recommendations , Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
- The Meaning Wavers Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Commissioned by Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
- Fournier, Lauren, Autotheory, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA
- 2019
- Review: Savage Ecology, Toward Freedom, Online
- Feature: Amazon’s Surveillance System Is a Global Risk to People of Color, ZORA: Medium, Online
- Review: Mapping Psycho-Social Connections: A Review of Jonathas de Andrade at the MCA, Newcity Magazine, Online
- Review: New Age, New Age: Strategies of Survival, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, Online
- Feature: Facial Recognition, Peccy, Precarious Labour: The Human Cost of Amazon, RTV Magazine, PL, Online & PL
- Poetry: No Connections, Flatpack Publications, Online & Austin, TX
- Feature: Syphon 5.1: My Life is Not Your ______., Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, ON, Online & Print
- 2018
- Review: An Expression of the Divine: A Review of Martine Syms at the Graham Foundation, Newcity Art Magazine, Online
- Review: The Personal and Private Collapse in the Digital Age: A Review of “Let Me Consider it From Here,” Newcity Magazine, Online
- Feature: Seasonal Associate, The Human Cost of Amazon, Topical Cream Magazine, Online
- Essays: i/C/U: Connection and Control, Letra Cheucha, homeschoolpdx, edited by Hiba Ali & Manuel Arturo Abreu
- Review: The Long View On Chicago’s Artistic History, A Book Review of “Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now,” Newcity Magazine, Online
- Review: Contending With The Internet As Medium And Infrastructure: A Review of “I Was Raised on the Internet” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Newcity Magazine, Online
- Feature: Issue 7: On, Under and Between the Border// Navigating the Carceral State, THE SEEN Publication, Print
- Review: Clarissa Tossin: Meeting of Waters, Blanton Museum, Austin, TX, THE SEEN Publication
- Review: IRL: Computer P$yentology, Museum of Human Achievement, Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX, Conflict on Interest Publication
- Feature: TELL A STAR Zine, Austin, TX and Online
- 2017
- Feature: Placeholder Publication, Victor Pérez-Rul; curated by Leslie Moody Castro
- 2016
- Review: Like Flesh, Film is Frail: A Review of Luther Price at Mana Contemporary, Newcity, Chicago, IL
- Review: MICHAEL RAKOWITZ // GRAHAM FOUNDATION & RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: GEORGE KUCHAR // ICEBERG PROJECTS, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Book: THE SEEN - Issue 03, Stephanie Cristello (Ed.), EXPO CHICAGO, Motto Distribution
- Review: Rodrigo Lara Zendejas: La Paz, Hyde Park Art Center, VAM Magazine
- Interview: Borderland Collective: Northern Triangle, Threewalls, VAM Magazine
- Review: Austin Brown: MUDROOM, THE MISSION, THE SEEN
- Review: Century Safe, Roman Susan, Newcity
- Review: Home Ground: Contemporary Art from the Barjeel Art Foundation, Aga Khan Museum, THE SEEN
- Review: Weight of Rage, Hyde Park Art Center, Newcity
- Interview: #NewGlobalMatriarchy with Mackrandilal and Stephanie Graham, Chicago Artists Coalition, VAM Magazine
- Review: Nexo/Nexus: Latin American Connections in the Midwest, DePaul Art Museum, THE SEEN
- Review: the pasts they brought with them, moniquemeloche, Newcity
- 2014
- Review: PROFILE OF THE ARTIST // LATIFA ECHAKHCH, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: White Feelings at the Franklin, VAM Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: White Feelings at the Franklin, Third Coast Review, Chicago, IL
- Review: Nora Schultz, parrottree – building for bigger than real, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: Wangechi Mutu/Block Museum of Art, New City, Chicago, IL
- Review: How to Make A Hood/Arts Incubator, New City, Chicago, IL
- Review: Fires Will Burn/DePaul Art Museum, New City, Chicago, IL
- Review: Unbound at the MCA, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: MISTAKES HAVE HIDDEN INTENTION // DEVENING PROJECTS + EDITIONS, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: MARCO BRAUNSCHWEILER // DOCUMENT, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: HELSINGISTÄ // WESTERN EXHIBITIONS, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: Interview with FLOW/IM FLUSS // LUFTWERK, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Review: PROFILE OF THE ARTIST // MONA HATOUM, The SEEN Magazine, Chicago, IL
- Feature: Methods II (Collaboration with Diamond Stingily), EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Feature: Postcolonial Language, SAIC VCS Department, Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL
- 2013
- Feature: Posting Ramadan 2013: Cooking in Diaspora, Art Dubai Blog, Dubai, UAE
- Feature: Viridian Retrospective: Viridian Note 00003, The State, Dubai, UAE
- Feature: Concepts from Desire, a dialogue between Hiba Ali and Ale Ale, 3rd Language Issue #4 Never Satisfied, Chicago, IL