Umber Majeed (b. New York, 1989) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016 and graduated from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan in 2013. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens.
Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America, and Europe. Majeed’s solo exhibitions include; ‘In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present’, Rubber Factory, New York (2018) and ‘Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Facts about the Earth)’, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virgina (2021), ‘Made in Trans-Pakistan’, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022), and an upcoming solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, NY in March 2025.
Recent group exhibitions include; ‘The Divided Self’, The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2012), “The Museum: Within and Without”, The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia (2015), 'Promises to Keep', apexart, New York (2017), 'Witness- Karachi Biennale', Karachi, Pakistan (2017), and ‘Volumes- Queens International 2018’, Queens Museum, New York (2018). She is a recipient of numerous fellowships including the HWP Fellowship, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (2017), Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018), the Digital Earth Fellowship, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19), Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2020) and QM-Jerome Fellowship (2024). Her work has been acquired by several private collections, including the Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection at the Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon, India.
She lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan.
PRESS
2021, 1708 Journal 2020, Broadcast, Pioneer Works 2020, Kajal Magazine
2019, Canvas Magazine
August 2019, Digital Earth Magazine February 2019, Ocula
November, 2018, Brooklyn Rail
November 2018, office Magazine
November 2018, Ocula
October 2018, Bedford + Bowery
October 2018, Cool Hunting
August 2018, Schloss–Post
INQUIRES
umbermajeedstudio@gmail.com