KAUR ALIA AHMED 










                                                                   
































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EDUCATION
2023 MFA, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts,
                          Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2016  BFA, Parsons School of Design, Fine Arts, New York, NY
                         Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, Literary Studies

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024  sky, harp, Entrance Gallery, New York NY
2022  Instamorph, LTK Enterprises, Marfa, Texas

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 humilis, island gallery, New York NY
2023 Stage Presence, Bard MFA Thesis Show, Red Hook NY
2021  A Gathering, HOUSING Gallery, New York NY
2020 Dead Angle, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York NY
2018 Only Glyphs Remembered, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn NY
           Ambient Commons, 77 Mulberry, New York NY
           Soon: South Asian Evocations and Becomings, Chinatown Soup, New York NY
2017 Chroma Key Blue, Radial Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2016 Kilroy Was Here, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn NY

SELECT READINGS/PLAYS/SCREENINGS
2025  New Years Day Marathon Reading, Poetry Project, New York NY
2024  Reading, with Gia Gonzalez, Poetry Project, New York NY
            freak green soul chapbook release, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn                 NY
            Dizzy TV Animation Night, Entrance Gallery, New York NY
2023  from every river to every sea, Wendy’s Subway at PAGEANT,                       Brooklyn NY
            NSE#956, Lotus Kang and CA Conrad, with Kaur Alia Ahmed,                       Brooklyn Rail
            The Onion: A play by Kaur Alia Ahmed, PAGEANT, Brooklyn NY
            Tilted Thinking, Wanting Ways, and Our Neurodiverse Future,
            chorus for Adam Wolfond,  Poetry Project, New York NY
            NSE#814, Hito Steyerl and Paul D. Miller, With Kaur Alia Ahmed,                 Brooklyn Rail
            poeticsplusone, Rust Belt Books, Buffalo NY
2022  reading, Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles CA
            Cave Show, Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale NY
            Two Nights, screening at Entrance Gallery, New York NY
            Fall Poetry Reading, gern en regalia, New York NY
            NSE #565, Raul de Nieves with Kaur Alia Ahmed, Brooklyn Rail
2021  Desperate Living Series, Brooklyn NY
            Poetry Project Spring 2021 Workshop Reading, New York NY
2020 Chrysalis, Molasses Books, Brooklyn NY
2019  Reading, Spoonbill & Sugartown Books, New York NY
2018  Reading, Unnameable Books, New York NY
            Performance, HOUSING Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2017  Natasha Magazine Launch, reading, Downs & Ross Gallery, New York NY
           Small Claims Vol.2, June Bar, Brooklyn NY
           Goldfish, performance at MX Gallery, New York NY
           Free Arts Education: A Poetic Act, NADA NY
           Edda: a poetry reading, Picture Room, New York NY
           Digital Diaspora, film screening, BUFU, Brooklyn NY

HONORS
2022 Carolyn Bush Award, Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Finalist, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, Poetry Project, New York NY

PUBLICATIONS
2023    Cursive Paradise, forthcoming book, Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY
2023    Poetry Project Newsletter #273, Spring 2023, New York, NY
2022    Baest #7, Baest Journal, online journal
2021     Spoil Vol.2, Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta, GA
2019     Three Poems, First Proof, BOMB Magazine

RESIDENCIES
2024            Artist Chef-in-Residence, This is a Performance School,                                 Lincolnville, ME
2017             Artist-in-Residence, Mount Lebanon Artist Residency, New                         Lebanon, NY
2015-2016 Artist-in-Residence, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY

TEACHING
2023            Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-on-                        Hudson, NY
2017-2020 Teaching Artist, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York,                               NY