Umber Majeed (b. New York, 1989) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016 and graduated from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan in 2013. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens.
Majeed’s solo exhibitions include; ‘In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present’, Rubber Factory, New York (2018) and ‘Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Facts about the Earth)’, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (2021), ‘Made in Trans-Pakistan’, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022), and J😊Y TECH, Queens Museum, NY (2025-6). She has shown internationally in group exhibitions at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2024); the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE (2019); the Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan (2017), among others. Majeed is a recipient of numerous fellowships including the HWP Fellowship, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (2017), Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018), the Digital Earth Fellowship, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19), Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2020), QM-Jerome Fellowship (2024), and ISCP Pollock-Krasber Fellowship (2025). Majeed is currently a Y12 NEW INC member- Extended Realities Track. Her work has been acquired by several private collections, including the Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection at the Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon, India.
She lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan.
PRESS
2025▪ The Queens Phone Repair Shop Meets the Museum by Lisa Yin Zhang, Hyperallergic, NY
2022▪ Artist Spotlight with Umber Majeed, ArteEast, NY
2022▪ Review on Made by Trans-Pakistan by Aruna D’Souza, 4columns, NY
2021 ▪ Notes on Trans-Pakistan Zindabad by Karina Iskandarsjah, 1708 Journal, Richmond, Virginia
2020▪ On the World Folding Onto Itself, Broadcast, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn by Nora Khan
2020▪ Let’s Go to Pakistan by David Howe Everitt, Broadcast, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2019 ▪ Suspended octopuses, floating humans by Saira Ansari, Canvas Magazine, Dubai, UAE
2018 ▪ In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present by Julie Nelson, Brooklyn Rail, NY
2018 ▪ Green Light and the Atomic Blast by Clara Hermann, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
INQUIRES
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