Evar Hussayni
Kurdish Multi-Disciplinary Artist
b. 1993

Exhibitions:

2020 - WOMEN IN MY HISTORY PART II, The White Pube (Digital)

2019 - Can’t Win Don’t Try 7, CWDT, London, United Kingdom

2019 - Third Space II: An Exhibition of Diaspora Artists, Third Space, Cambridge, United Kingdom

2018 -ARTUMMAH, East of West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2018 - Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

2018 - 100 Years, Todays Women by We Are Here, LSE Library, London, United Kingdom

2018 - A River Flowing, East Of West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2017 - Pirates Live by RoadGals, Richmix, London, United Kingdom

2017 - Laundry Service Presents Memories, Protein Studios, London, United Kingdom

2017 - Our Naked Truths, Collective, London, United Kingdom

2017 - RIOTGAL, The Hospital Club, London, United Kingdom

2016 - Meet The Artists Pop-Up Exhibition, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2016 - ARTROOMS2016 Art Fair, Le Dame Art Gallery at Melia White House, London, United Kingdom

2016 - Capital Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2015 - Pesangeh (exhibition) Kurdistan, Diyarbakir, Kurdistan

2014 - Tales of A Genocide Art Auction, London, United Kingdom

2012 - Group Show, Leeds Student Union, Leeds, United Kingdom

2011 - ArtOfficial, Leeds, United Kingdom

2008 - Image & Identity, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Residency and Bursary :

2020 - Jupiter Woods Residency - Herstories and Feminisms

2020 - Haramacy 

2020 - Freelands Foundation 2020

2020 - Jerwood Bursaries 2020 Award

2020 - The White Pube Monthly Digital Takeover  

Curation:

2020 - The West Asian and North African Woman's Art Library (thewanawal.com)

2019 - Programme and Events at The Mosaic Rooms (Feb-Dec)

2019 - V&A Friday Late: AZEEMA ANTI-ART SCHOOL. Art Class and Panel exploring decolonisation within the art school and museums (lead director & Chair)

2017 - 'Society and Culture' exhibition by Meet The Artists/Creative Debuts curated by Evar Hussayni, The Black & White Building, London, United Kingdom

2016 - Exhibition Assistant - Are We All Human(E)?, P21 Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Publications:

2020 - Popular Front, Issue 2

2019 - Hymen Magazine, Issue 4

2018 - Azeema Magazine, Issue 3

2018 - Lungs Project, Issue 3

2017 - Azeema Magazine, Issue 2

2017 - Memories by Laundry Arts

Other:

2019 - Engaged Gazing for Social Justice in Britain, The Good Immigrant, guest lecturer, Regent's University

2019 - Laundry Arts: Women, Memories & Monuments, reading session, Design Museum  

2018 - Working In The Creative Industries, panel by We Are Here, LSE Library

2017 - Memories, panel by Laundry Arts, Protein Studios

2017 - Art Class by Evar Hussayni, KCC

2017 - Art Class Collaboration with Our Naked Truths, The Archivist

2016 - International Woman's Day by Public Ambition

2016 - Woman's Night by Evar Hussayni, P21 Gallery

2016 - Art Class by Evar Hussayni, P21 Gallery

2015 - Nominated for "Female Artist" category at Most Successful Kurds in Britain Awards

As Culture Editor for Azeema Magazine:

AZEEMA Agency: 

2020 - AZEEMA x SOLE:  What they call her? “RIMON” (writer)

2020 -  AZEEMA X NIKE - Move Without Limits (executive producer, researcher, cultural programmer & events producer) 

2019 -  Heritage of Tomorrow - A short film by AZEEMA (set design & directing)

azeemamag.com: 

2020 - Oum Kalthoum - The Enduring Light of Arabic Music’s Brightest Star

2020 - Orgasms are a Feminist Act

2020 - Why photographs are so important to the children of migrants

2020 - Abracadabra is an Assyrian word

2020 - “Kaya” - A film exploring the Alevi community

2020 - Shirin Ebadi: Protecting women's rights in post-revolutionary Iran

2020 - The Sun, Moon, Henna + Tattoos

2020 - Refugee Camps on the Edge of Athens

2020 - Algeria: a pacific uprising for democracy

2020 - Decolonising Wellness

2019 - Victorious 

AZEEMA Issue 3, 2018:

-Undocumented Women in Britain

-A Reflection On The Contemporary Orientalisation Of Kurdish Women And On Their Modalities of Resistance

-The Sun, Moon, Henna & Tattoos