b. 1998 Ottawa, ON
Lives and works in Ottawa, ON and Montreal, QC
Education
2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Solo Exhibitions
2025
(Forthcoming) Forest City Gallery, London, ON
(Forthcoming) City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON
(Forthcoming) Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, QC
2024
Praises Unsung, Maison de la culture NDG, Montreal, QC
Praises Unsung, J.W. Stellick Gallery, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON
Praises Unsung, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Duo Exhibitions
2023
Discontinuous, Heterogeneous, and Pluriversal, Lalande + Doyle, Shenkman Art Centre, Ottawa, ON
2022
Le dernier des touristes, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Statuomania, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Seinäjoki, FI
2024
Inviting the Conflict, Galerie Annexe, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Held Together, Galerie Annexe, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Kotibileet, SIC, Helsinki, FI
Warm Embrace, Canopy Studio, New York, NY
Transposing: Comic Cartoons, Female Bodies, Witches, Goddesses, Daughters, Artists, Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, NY
2023
Rising Tide, Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection, City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Finalist Exhibition, Salt Spring National Art Prize, Salt Spring Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC
We do not dream of labour, Galerie Annexe, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Art Volt Collection Annual Launch Exhibition, Le Livart, Montreal, QC
In Living Colour: Showing the Creative ACB Experience in Ottawa, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, ON
Tales, Senate of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2022
Formats à emporter, Institut National Art contemporain, Montreal, QC
Shifting Ground, DARC Project Space (Digital Arts Resource Centre), Ottawa, ON
Plethora, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK
Alhamdu Muslim Futurism, Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Durham, NC
Exposition Entre, La P’tite Porte, Montreal, QC
Trait D’Union, Centre culturel Marocain à Montréal, Montreal, QC
Dos à dos, face à face, Institut National Art contemporain, Montreal, QC
Double Dutch, Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, ON
2021
Artch, Dorchester Square, Montreal, QC
Filtered, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Residencies & Studio Programs
2024
Wassaic Project, Amenia, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 50th Anniversary Fellowship Fund, Amherst, VA
Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, NY
2023-24
The Canopy Program, NYC Crit Club, Virtual
2023
Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, SN
Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Bouclair Residency in Digital Arts, Art Volt, Montreal, QC
2021
Artch entrepreneurship training, Montreal, QC
2020
CBC Arts: Exhibitionists, Virtual
Awards & Grants
2024
ActivArt Community Micro Grant, Ottawa Arts Council
Youth in Culture Pilot Program, City of Ottawa
2023
Salt Spring National Art Prize, Top prize, The Joan McConnell Award
Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Creation Projects
Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad, Residencies
The James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship, NYC Crit Club
Equity and Inclusion in the Arts Fund, Seed Award Category, City of Ottawa
ARTicipate, Shenkman Art Centre
Emerging IBPOC Artist Award finalist, Ottawa Arts Council
2021
Youth in Culture Pilot Program, City of Ottawa
2019
Silk Road Institute, Ground Breaking Artistic Projects
Professional Services
2024
Artist Talk, J.W. Stellick Gallery, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, On
Artist Talk, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Juror, Artists and Communities and School Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON
2023
Patterns of Home workshop, Ottawa Catholic School Board, Virtual
2022
Workshop with Ottawa Art Gallery for summer campers, Ottawa, ON
Artist talk and workshop with Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
Workshop with Somerset West Community Health Centre, Virtual
2021
House of PainT Knowledge Conference, Virtual
Workshop with the Carlton Community Centre, Virtual
Artist talk for summer campers at Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Murals & Public Art
2022
Galerie des placottoirs de la rue Castelnau, City of Montreal
2021
Lansdowne and the Glebe Art Cubes mural artist
Filtered exhibition at OAG, collaborated on 3 part mural and sound installation
Mural design Programme FrancoFun for Vanier Community Service Centre
Press & Publications
CBC: All in a Day with Alan Neal, What it means to be the eldest daughter explored in new exhibition
Galleries West, The Salt Spring National Art Prize Society announces awards
Arts To Hearts Project, In Studio With Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman
Al-Tiba9 Issue 12 Print Magazine, Discover the international art scene with Al-Tiba9
2022
Revue Relations, Vivre sans statut au Québec
Gallery 101, People… Places.. Fragments.. memories.. piecing together to make whole
CBC, Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman creates new art work for CBC Ottawa’s community newsletter
2021
C2 Montreal, Artch: A creative springboard for emerging artists in the great economic restart
Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Inshallah: Anthology of Muslim artists pictures a bright future
Radio Canada, Nouvelle murale à la Galerie d’art d’Ottawa
2020
Affirmative Girls, Sarah-Mecca – Master of Many Art Mediums
2014
Muslim Link, Young Artist Competes to Create a Masterpiece
Collections
2023
Art Volt Collections
2021-24
City of Ottawa Art Collections