Kiara Mohamed, (b. 1990, Somalia)
Artist (film, poetry, photography, drone photography)
Pronouns he/him
Exhibitions and Commissions
HOME film/ Bluecoat, online commission, 2020
Black Flowers film (subtitled)/ Bluecoat, online commission, 2020
Founding Mother film/ The Royal Standard, online commission, 2020
The Lives We Lead/ The Open Eye Gallery and Salford University Art Collection, commission, 2020
The Story of Surviving film/ Savera UK, online commission, 2020
Black People Built Liverpool/ Homotopia Fest, Anglican Cathedral, 2020
Black Trans Lives Matter/ Sumuyya Khadir, Bluecoat, Culture Liverpool, Without Walls Commission, 2020
The Lives We Lead Exhibition/ Open Eye Gallery and Salford Art Collection, Showing at Museum of Liverpool, 2020
ROOT-ed Zine Group Exhibition/ Output Gallery, 2019
Black Flowers film/ International Slavery Museum, 2019
Prototypes For A Feminist Future Group Exhibition/ Tangent Projects, Barcelona, 2019
Black Liver Birds Podcast/ International Museum, 2019
All the Feels Group Exhibition/ FACT, 2019
Finding Home Group Exhibition/ FESTIVAL21, 2018
Humanscape/ Independent Biennial, 2018
Letters To My Sisters/ ROOT-ed Zine Black History Month Group Exhibition at Tate Liverpool, 2018
ROOT-ed Zine Group Exhibition/ Output Gallery, 2018
World Transformation Group Exhibition, screening Black Flowers film/ Labour Party
Black Flowers film screening/ LWD Manchester, 2018
Shared History Group Exhibition/ The Reader Org. at Martin Luther King Building, Liverpool, 2018
Black Flowers Screening/ Steve Biko Conference, 2018
Black Flowers Screening/ British Museum, 2018
Press
COVID Commission, Open Eye Gallery and Salford Art Collection Open Eye Gallery – New Commissions: 'How Will We Remember?'
Review: Kiara Mohamed at Royal Standard, Messy Lines Build Your Own Future
Double Negative, “We have to be uncomfortable in order to grow” – Interview: Kiara Mohamed
Homotopia Fest, Art Crawl Queer The City: Take The Tour Online
LCR Pride, A Chat With: Kiara Mohamed
BBC, Drone Photography BBC Radio 4 - Sketches: Stories of Art and People, Series 1, Landscapes
Review: Bido Lito, Amber Akaunu KIARA MOHAMED | Bido Lito!
Art in Liverpool, Bernadette Mcbride, Interview with Kiara Mohamed for Humanscape, Independents Biennial 2018
Other
Common Grounds - I Wish I was Here, a talk for Metal UK about climate justice, 2020
Future Networks Short - Coming back to Myself, a talk about art and 2020, Metal UK, 2020
Judging Face Covering Competition - Open Culture, 2020
Iftar Talk - Talk on faith and queer identity for Imaan LGBTQ, 2020
And Now We Heal/ Granby Winter Garden, Residency, 2020
The Films That Make Me as an Artist - a talk given to film students, ISRAAC Somali Community Associates, 2020
Common Ground artist sharing/ Metal UK, 2020
Black Flowers film - Liverpool Town Hall for the inauguration of Liverpool’s first Black Mayor Anna Rothery, 2019
RISE UP! - Children's workshop, Bluecoat, 2019
Intersectional Feminism Group Talk, FACT, 2019
NightLight 2020 Commissions Panel - reading the commissions application forms, Open Culture, 2019
Black People Reclaiming Colonial Spaces Lecture - Edge Hill University, 2019
Humanscape writing submission - ROOT-ed Zine, 2018
Women And Christianity article - ROOT-ed Zine, 2018