Umber Majeed

Umber Majeed, born in New York, NY, is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens.

Majeed has shown internationally in group exhibitions at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2024); the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE (2019); the Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan (2017), among others. She is a recipient of numerous fellowships including ISCP Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2025), QM-Jerome Fellowship (2024), Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2020), the Digital Earth Fellowship, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018–19), Refiguring Feminist Futures Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018), and the HWP Fellowship, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (2017). Majeed is currently a Y12 NEW INC member in the Extended Realities Track.