By Linda Abdullah

Website: https://www.lindaabdullah.io/

Instagram: @bylindaabdullah

Location: Chicago, IL/ Online

Description: interdisciplinary artist and designer in Chicago with art pieces featuring Palestine. “I launched my creative career as a portrait artist and art gallery owner prior to establishing my graphic design practice. I hold a BSc in Visual Communications from the American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University (Canada).

My work acts as a commentary on social, cultural and political themes through critical graphic design praxis. Having lived most of my life in the Middle East before moving to Toronto, has allowed me to view my own culture as an outsider for the first time. This cultural, intellectual and visual shift has engendered a series of experimental projects that deal with notions of identity, diaspora and displacement and allow me to look at my being from the perspective of intellectual exile.”