Photograph – Ibi Ibrahim

Cultural identity has a vast influence on my work and is often a driving theme behind my projects. The photowork I produced over the past decade aims to offer an idiosyncratic exploration of Arab identities through an artistic approach specifically highlighting queer Arab-American perspectives and intertwining storytelling with care practices, artistic research and advocacy.

My work explores various thematics surrounding immigration, gender and resilience, all marked by notions of in-betweenness, transition and the diasporic human experience. While my color darkroom experiments attempt to blur boundaries between the mediums of photography, painting and printmaking in an effort to affirm the fluidity of the medium, freeing it from the notion of a documentary narrative.

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Ibi Ibrahim (b. 1987, Michigan, United States) is a Yemeni-American visual artist and musician. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Ibrahim’s work explores various thematics surrounding immigration, gender and resilience. All marked by notions of in-betweenness, transition and the diasporic human experience. The photowork Ibrahim produced over the past decade aims to offer an idiosyncratic exploration of Arab identities through an artistic approach specifically highlighting queer Arab-American perspectives and intertwining storytelling with care practices, artistic research and advocacy. His work is part of a number of private collections as well as public collections including the British Museum, Colorado College, Arab American National Museum, Barjeel Art Foundation and Durham University Oriental Museum, among others. He is the co-author of the photobook Photography from Yemen (2024).