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Recent Past:

Facing the Fortress
Nuit Blanche Etobicoke (Samuel Smith Park, Toronto, ON)
September 23, 2023

To return to departure
Artcite Inc. (Windsor, ON)
August 18-September 30, 2023
Reception: August 18, 7:00-10:00pm
Performance: August 19, 2:00pm

Facing the Fortress
Installation with CAFKA.23 (506 Dotzert Court, Waterloo, ON)
June 3-July 22, 2023
Opening Reception: June 16, 7pm
Performance: July 8, 10:30am

Carrying Distance
Modern Fuel (Kingston, ON)
September 17 – November 5, 2022
Opening reception: September 17, 7-9pm

Speaking Across the Divide
the shell projects (13 Mansfield Ave, Toronto. Back alley)
August 4-28, 2022

Opening Reception: August 4, 7:00-9:00pm
Performance 1: August 6, 2:00pm
Performance 2: August 10, 7:00pm
Rain Date: August 11, 7:00pm

More Distant Past:

2020: Gallery Artists Predict the Future
Assembly Gallery (Hamilton, ON)
December 3-28, 2019
Opening Reception: December 13, 7:00-9:30 pm

To see and see again
Jana Omar Elkhatib, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Rajee Paña Jeji Shergill, Felix Kalmenson, Jinyoung Kim, and Zinnia Naqvi
Curated by Abedar Kamgari

More details here. Read the article published on Canadian Art.

Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton ON)
September 4 – November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: September 7, 7:00-9:30 pm

Alef, beh, and other necessities
Assembly Gallery (Hamilton, ON)
May 3 – 27, 2019

Artist Talk
Crit Club, OCAD University
CEAD: Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers (Toronto, ON)
January 15, 2019 from 3-5 pm

Our Best Yet
Assembly Gallery (Hamilton, ON)
November 30 – December 29, 2018
Opening Reception: December 14 2018 from 7-10 pm

Daily Bread
Solo Exhibition by Teresa Ascencao
Curated by Abedar Kamgari
Worker’s Arts and Heritage Centre (Hamilton, ON)
May 12, 2018 – August 17, 2018
Opening Reception: May 11, 2018 from 7-9 pm

Untitled (performance)
Art Spin Hamilton

Starting at Hayward Park, 13 Delkeith Avenue (Hamilton, ON)
Friday, July 20, 2018, 7pm

Sofreh  (performance)
Of Containers & Firestarts 
Idea Exchange – Queen’s Square (Cambridge, ON)
Thursday, July 12, 2018 from 6-8 pm

Untitled (performance)
This Could Be The Place
University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON)
Monday, June 4, 2018 from 12-3 pm

Sofreh  (performance)
Art and Social Strata Conference

Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (Hamilton, ON)
Saturday, March 24, 2018 from 11:30-1 pm

The Walk Home
Xpace Cultural Centre – External Space (Toronto, ON)
January 9, 2018 – February 27, 2018
Opening Reception: January 12, 2018 from 7-9 pm

150 Acts: Art, Activism, Impact
Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph, ON)
December 15, 2017 – February 18, 2018
Opening Reception: January 17, 2018 from 7-9 pm

The Journey West
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, ON)
October 20, 2017 – March 18, 2018
Opening Reception: October 19, 2017 from 5:30-7pm

Every.Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, ON)
June 28, 2017 – December 10, 2017

Echo Artist Talk
AGH Annex (Hamilton, ON)
Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 7-9 pm

Urban Green: artscarp
Sam Lawrence Park (Hamilton, ON)
Saturday, September 30, 2017 from 3-6pm

The Public: Land and Body
Y+ Contemporary (Scarborough, ON)
Saturday, September 23, 2017 from 5-8pm
*An extension of Every.Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood

Hundred Dollar Gallery Festival of Performance Art
228 James Street North (Hamilton, ON)
Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 3pm

Photophobia Moving Image Festival
AGH Design Annex (Hamilton, ON)
Friday, August 11, 2017 from 7-11pm

How far afield?  
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (Mississauga, ON)
Thursday, July 20, 2017 from 12-4pm

Intra Action (Performance)
Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto, ON)
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 from 6-8pm

Cotton Factory Talks  (Artist Talk)
The Cotton Factory, Storehouse Building (Hamilton, ON)
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 7pm

Video Fever  (Screening)
Trinity Square Video (Toronto, ON)
Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 6pm

HUSH
The Baltimore House (Hamilton, ON)
Sunday, March 19, 2017