Mariam Magsi 

 

 

 

Mariam Magsi (she/they) is a Karachi-born, Toronto-based artist, writer, and educator whose practice spans photography, video, performance, poetry, and installation art, grounded in decolonial, feminist frameworks.

 

Rooted in Baloch-Punjabi heritage, Mariam's multidisciplinary practice draws on tribal/cultural textiles + paraphernalia, photographic archives, food, and orally transferred intergenerational histories to examine how identity, gender, power, and migration are shaped and contested within public and private life.

 

Through projects that investigate veiling (Purdah), ancestral memory + belonging (Daughter of the Tribe), and South Asian hospitality (Dawat Yan Project), Mariam positions the domestic as an archive, and a political site, where displacement, resistance, survival, poetry and protest intersect.

 

Mariam holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design from OCAD University and a BFA with Honours in Studio Art and English Literature from the University of Toronto.

 

Her work has been featured in VICE, Vogue Italia, CNN, British Journal of Photography, Black Flash Magazine, Scene Arabia and Toronto Star, and exhibited internationally with the Sarajevo Photography Festival, Indian Photo Festival, Pride Photo Amsterdam, SCOPE Miami, Simurgh International Film & Arts Festival, Art Gallery of Ontario and more.