Photography; Art & Technology (Emerging Practices); Drawing; Media Studies
Abdi Osman is a Somali Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Buffalo, New York, whose work focuses on questions of Black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim, queer and trans identities. For more than twenty years, Osman's practice has been concerned with representing and complicating the gaps evident in hegemonic or normative representations of Black/African peoples to unsettle and broaden ideas about what Blackness is, was, and can be. He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions, biennale, festivals, screenings, and programs across North America and internationally. Most recently, Osman was a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.