Mariam Tawfik is second generation Iraqi migrant, born in Palmerston North, based in Tāmaki Makaurau, where she graduated from Whitecliffe college of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her practice is a multidisciplinary one that participates in the discourse of diasporic identities and it’s politics. Code-switching, not only linguistically but culturally, is a common theme in her practise. To place importance on discussion, collaboration and community in her work, she often makes direct references to the audiences participation or non participation within her installations that are weaved into some form of writing or word play. Mariam founded and curated, MAYONEZ (2018-2019), an artist run space in Grey Lynn for emerging artists in Aotearoa.
She currently runs, HAFLEH (@_hafleh_), a club night, community platform and record label to promote MENASA Artists, DJ’s and sounds from the Arab World within Aotearoa.
EXHIBITION HISTORY//
ABJECT SPACE. THE CONCRETE AND THE ABSTRACT (CONCEPT PROJECT). 2021-2022.
٦ SUIT JACKETS. WHITECLIFFE GRAD SHOW. 2019.
UNDER FORMATION. PART OF GROUP SHOW. PEARCE GALLERY. 2019.
ماذا يعني? WHITECLIFFE COLLEGE. 2019.
TREE/HUT. SPLORE MUSIC FESTIVAL. IN COLLABORATION WITH JILL SORENSON, CHRIS BERTHELSON, NICK JAMIESON, AND MIA BRAILEY.
ARTISTS’ STATEMENT. WHITECLIFFE COLLEGE. 2018.
WORLDS LARGEST DISCO BALL. WHITECLIFFE COLLEGE. 2017.
AL-HIJRA. WHITECLIFFE COLLEGE. 2016.
SKIN. PART OF GROUP SHOW. YES COLLECTIVE. 2014.