NIMAH GOBIR | CURRICULUM VITAE:

b. 1993, Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Oakland, CA

EDUCATION

2018 Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, MEd Arts in Education

2015 Chapman University, Orange, CA, BFA Studio Art, BA Peace Studies

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Better Dey Come, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2023 Holding Space, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA

2022 SPOOLS, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

2021 Old House, FM Oakland, Oakland, CA

2019 Tender-Headed and Other Works, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA

2015 I Can Read with my Eyes Shut!, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Minted, Tinted, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

Sacred Terrain, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA

2023 Facing Home, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA

The Black Woman is God, San Francisco, CA

2021 The Black Woman is God, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2020 FM Annual, FM Oakland, Oakland, CA

Until It Shatters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2019 New Growth, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2018 Non-Sterile Art Happens, Pop-Up, Cambridge, MA

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

2023 CanvasRebel "Meet Nimah Gobir"

48hills "Home is?” Women of color tangle with question in pair of

memorable museum shows

2022 48hills “How Human We Are”: Nimah Gobir Expands the Space of Black

Love

SF/Arts, "Sophie Treppendahl: Homebody & Nimah Gobir: Spools,"

Hyperallergic, “Enter the Universe of Black Womxn Artists in the Bay Area”

February

2019 The Process Podcast, “Nimah Gobir on the nature of identity in art” October

2019 Bad at Sports Podcast, “Samantha Reynolds, Nimah Gobir, Guta Galli and

Katherine Vetne”

RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS

2024 Recology Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA

2019-2020 Emerging Artist Professionals Fellowship, San Francisco, CA

2018-2019 The Growlery Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA

2018-2019 Blau - Gold Studio/Teaching Fellowship

COLLECTIONS

2023 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA