Khadija Baker

Khadija Baker is a Syrian Kurdish artist and performer who lives in Montreal.

Khadija Baker
Baker in 2014
Born
Amûdê
Alma materConcordia University
Known forMultimedia art
Websitehttps://khadijabaker.com

Her multimedia work reflects her own experiences of forced displacement and trauma and has been shown globally including at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery.

Education

Born in Amûdê, Rojava,[1] Baker moved to Montreal in 2001 and has a degree in fine arts from Concordia University.[2]

Career
Still from My little Voice Can't Lie exhibit, 2009

Her work combines sculpture, sound, textiles, and video and is inspired by her lived experience of trauma and forced displacement.[1] Baker uses art to critique the treatment of Kurds in Syria.[3]

She has won funding awards from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.[1]

She has exhibited locally and international including her 2009 Coffin Nest exhibition in Damascus about Iraq's mass graves, at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012, as well as in Amsterdam, Beirut, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Marseille, Montreal, New York City, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Seoul, and Tokyo.[2][1][4]

In 2015, she collaborated with photographer Henderen Chalak, dancer Fethi Karakecili, and painter Dara Aram for a display at the Toronto's Cedar Ridge Gallery that explored the nature of Kurdish identity.[5] In 2018, the Stewart Hall Art Gallery hosted her Trajectoires exhibition that she created with artists Lysette Yoselevitz and Dorothée Nowak.[6][7] The exhibition was also later featured at the Maison de la culture Mercier.[7]

Her Birds Crossing Borders multimedia piece featuring Muzna Dureid, and two other anonymous Syrian women, was exhibited at the Salle de diffusion de Parc-Extension in 2022.[8]

References
  1. Tan, Faith (2020-09-13). "Çağdaş sanatın mekânsız dokusu: Khadija Baker". DuvaR Gazete (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  2. Manuello, Tessa (7 April 2013). "Two Syrian Kurdish Artists: New Lives in Canada but Hearts in Kurdistan". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  3. "Le racisme de nos valises". La Presse (in French). 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  4. "L'art de résister, au féminin pluriel". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  5. Homa, Ava (6 Jan 2015). "Toronto exhibition explores Kurdish identity". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  6. "L'automne dans les galeries". La Presse (in French). 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  7. Choquette, Danielle. "19 activités culturelles pour l'Action de grâce". Le Journal de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  8. "The Salle de diffusion de Parc-Extension presents 'Birds Crossing Borders' | Fringe Arts". thelinknewspaper.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
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