Photo by Áine Belton from the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Hiba Abdallah (she/her) is a text-based artist exploring how power, memory, and belonging are negotiated through public space. Through collaborative research and community-engaged practice, her work surfaces overlooked histories, everyday resistance, and the political tensions embedded within civic life. Working across public interventions, installations, and socially engaged projects, Abdallah uses language as both material and strategy — transforming public space into a site for collective reflection, dissent, and cultural memory.
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.