Education
2014-2018: University of Washington, Seattle, WA (BA Art History, BA Three-Dimensional Forum)
Exhibition Record
Residencies:
June 2024 - Present: Actualize Air, Seattle, WA
March - April 2024: Inscape Arts, Seattle, WA
July - December 2023: Nii Modo, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Shows:
2024-25: Roots/Uproot, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024: Sunbleached, The Fishbowl, Seattle, WA
2024: Artists of Color Expo and Symposium, Seattle, WA
2024: Actualize I, Actualize, Seattle, WA
2024: Time Capsule, The Vestibule, Seattle, WA
2023: Artists of Color Expo and Symposium, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle, WA
2021: CoCA ShowWalls, Gary Manuel Salon, Seattle, WA
2021: Artists of Color Expo and Symposium, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2020: The High Wall, Inscape Arts, Seattle, WA
2020: Greatest Quarantine Art Expo., Inside-an-airport, Online
2020: 2020 Vision, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2018: 98 Days, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2017: Everyone's $50, The Alice Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017: City Arts Magazine's Summer Art Walk Awards, collaboration with Nicole Ramirez, Sole Repair Shop, Seattle, WA
2017: Out of Sight, Schoenfelds’ Building, Seattle, WA
2017: Strange Coupling, collaboration with Nicole Ramirez, Good Arts LLC, Seattle, WA
2017: Strange Coupling Auction, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Solo/Two Person Shows & Performances:
2024: See Through, collaboration with Shannon Hobbs, The Vestibule, Seattle, WA
2018: Couples Therapy, collaboration with Zachary Conklin, Apt. 201, Seattle, WA
2018: White Out, CMA South Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2018: Production Line, performance, F YES! OH F! at Studio Current, Seattle, WA
2018: Production Line, performance, SYNKHRA Library at Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
Press & Publications
-Davis, Brangien. “ArtSEA: Seattle gains an arts incubator and loses a clay champion.” Crosscut, 1 August 2024, https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2024/08/artsea-seattle-gains-arts-incubator-and-loses-clay-champion.
-Vansynghel, Margo. “Where to see free, outdoor art in the Seattle area in spring 2024.” The Seattle Times, 17 May 2024, https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/where-to-see-free-outdoor-art-in-the-seattle-area-in-spring-2024/
-Lindsay Costello. ”See Through: Nadia Ahmed and Shannon Hobbs.” EverOut, June 2024. https://everout.com/seattle/events/see-through-nadia-ahmed-and-shannon-hobbs/e177125/
-“New work by Artist-in-Residence Nadia Ahmed.” Friends of Inscape, 2024, https://friendsofinscape.org/news/resident-nadia-ahmed.
-Vansynghel, Margo. “Beyond Seattle Art Fair 2023: 6 must-see satellite shows.” The Seattle Times, 21 July 2023, www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/beyond-seattle-art-fair-2023-5-must-see-pop-up-art-exhibits/?amp=1.
-Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal, Issue 36, 17 May 2018, Print.
-Lim, Nathan. “Utopia Neighborhood Club presents an open space for all to showcase talent.” The Daily (Seattle, WA) 12 January 2017: 5. Print.
Professional Experience
January 2024 - Present: Communications Specialist, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
October 10, 2024: Artist Talk, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
September 27, 2024: Artist Panel, The Fishbowl, Seattle, WA
June 22, 2024: Artist Talk, The Vestibule, Seattle, WA
January - June 2024: Operations Director, Actualize, Seattle, WA
October 2022 - January 2024: Communications Manager, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
January 2020 - October 2022: Development Manager, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
October 2019 - December 2020: Development Coordinator, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
December 2018 - October 2019: Program Facilitator, Seattle Children’s Museum, Seattle, WA
July 2019: Served on Residency Review Panel for Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
July 2019: Guest art teacher on children’s show, Look Listen and Learn, Episodes 2-7, Seattle, WA
September - December 2018: Programs Intern, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
January - June 2018: Program Organizer, Strange Coupling, Seattle, WA
June 2016 - June 2018: Exhibition and Event Photographer, University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, Seattle, WA
July 2017 - January 2018: Development Intern, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA
January 2015 - June 2017: Gallery Lead, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Curatorial Projects and programming
2018: Strange Coupling and Strange Coupling Auction, program organizer, Seattle, WA
2017: Utopia Neighborhood Club: A Student Response Part II (Co-curated with Anqi Peng and Sarah Faulk), Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017: Utopia Neighborhood Club: A Student Response (Co-curated with Anqi Peng and Sarah Faulk), Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016: Utopia Neighborhood Club (Co-curated with Anqi Peng and Sarah Faulk), Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016: What did you do with your art history degree?, organized a talk with University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design alumni David Mendoza and Anne Focke, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA
2016: No, Really, What is a Club?, organized a conversation between alumni and current students of University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA
2016: What is a Club?, organized, led, and moderated a panel discussion with University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design faculty members Jamie Walker, Amie McNeel, and Ann Gale, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA