Photo by Áine Belton from the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Hiba Abdallah (she/her) is a text-based artist exploring the hegemonic systems that shape public life. Grounded in research and dialogic engagement, her work utilizes forms of radical hospitality, agitation, and disagreement—treating them not as oppositional forces but as tools for reimagining how collective resistance is formed, challenged, and enacted.
Through a multidisciplinary approach spanning public interventions, community-based projects, gallery exhibitions, and publications, her projects create spaces for encounter, tension, and reflection. She uses language as both medium and method—an instrument for making visible the often-invisible power of belonging and collectivity.
Recent projects include Minor Stipulations at Art Windsor Essex, Re-Connecting to the Bow commissioned by the City of Calgary, Rehearsing Disagreement at MOCA Toronto, and A List of Antagonisms for the CAFKA Biennial in Kitchener, Ontario.
She currently lives and works as an uninvited guest on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, the Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit, and acknowledges the ongoing presence and stewardship of these Indigenous lands.