keli safia maksud
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, text, printmaking and embroidery. Concerned with histories of colonial encounters and its effects on memory, Maksud’s practice favors the space of in-between and its threshold and works towards destabilizing received histories in order to expose fictions of the state.
Maksud earned her BFA in Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, a Diploma in Art and Curatorial Studies at the New Centre for Research and Practice and an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has shown at Salon 94 in New York, NY, Huxley Parlour in UK, the Bamako Biennial in Mali, National Museum of Contemporary Art – Seoul in South Korea, Galería Nueva in Spain and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil in Brazil. Maksud has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts (2018 and 2017), the Toronto Arts Council (2015), the Ontario Council for the Arts (2012 and 2014) the New York Foundation for the Arts (2021) and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (2022). Her writing has been published in OCULA Magazine, the Swiss Institute, LEAP Magazine and A Space Gallery.
WORKS
Black Codes, 2021
Embossing on paper, 45 pieces total
11 x 17 in (each)
Black Codes (detail), 2021
Embossing on paper, 45 pieces total
11 x 17 in (each)
EXHIBITIONS
LatchKey Gallery | 173 Henry Street | info@latchkeygallery.com | 646.213.9070