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My art practice examines the post-colonial body as an archive and historical geographical places as sites of cultural and political meaning. I investigate themes of migration, embodiment, transformation, displacement, and memory. The personal narratives and testimonies of my family's migration experience, where meaningful knowledge is located. I re-imagine, unravel and explore through sculpture, sound, images, text, language, moving image and installation.

I completed my MFA in Fine Art in 2020 from Goldsmiths.

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Exhibitions

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Articles of Home
Reid Gallery, GSA Exhibitions, Glasgow
2023

Image Behaviour
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
2022

Articles of Home
Luva Gallery, London
2022

Inside the Country of the Skin
Stryx, Birmingham
2021

Group

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝘀: 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 [ 𝗛, 𝗛
Gossamer Fog
2026

Focal Point Gallery
Big Screen Southend-on-Sea
2025-2026

You are a memory, I am your Shadow
Reid Gallery, Glasgow
2023

Not to be a Singular Being
Chisenhale Art Place Studio, London
2022

Indernet Festival
Cologne, Germany
2022

The London Open
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022

New Contemporaries
South London Gallery, London
2022

Gerald Moore Gallery
London
2022

New Contemporaries
Firstsite, Colchester
2021

Groundings
Goldsmiths CCA, London
2021

Longshore Drifting
Safehouse 1, London
2021

London Grads
Saatchi Gallery, London
2020

Incarnations
Montez Press Radio, New York
2020

Indernet Festival
Cologne, Germany
2020

Members Show
Eastside projects, Birmingham
2019

Ways of Belonging
Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham
2019

Interim Exhibition
Goldsmiths, London
2019

Sight for Sore Eyes
Gossamer Fog, London
2019

Awards & Residencies

Awarded DYCP Bursary by Art Council England
2025-26

Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Artist Residency
and Bursary
(Awarded by New Contemporaries)
2024

Awarded Axis Artist Fellowship and Bursary
2024-25

Image Behaviour Commission
ICA, London
2022

Selected for The London Open
Whitechapel Gallery Open
2022

New Contemporaries Digital Fellowships
(short-listed)
2022

Selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2021

VR Artist Residency
Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2021

Almacantar Studio Award
Bow Arts, London
2020

ACME Studio Award, London
(short-listed)
2020

Artquest Adaption Award, London
(short-listed)
2020

Education

MFA Fine Art (Distinction)
Goldsmiths College of Art, London
2020

MA (RCA) Graphic Design
Royal College of Art, London
1996

Links

Asuf Ishaq: New Contemporaries and Hospitalfield Studio Residency 2024

Bloomberg New Contemporaries

New Contemporaries — Asuf Ishaq artist page

Articles of Home, Reid Gallery, Glasgow

'Articles of Home' Reid Gallery — Photography by The Glasgow School of Art

London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery London June - September 2022

Film Programme: Regroundings online screening, Goldsmiths CCA 2021

Goldsmiths CCA Regroundings Artist Conversation

Image Behaviour, ICA — Artist Profile

Image Behaviour, ICA — Artist Interview (PDF)

Image Behaviour, ICA — BTS Video

Incantations, Montez Press Radio, New York

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