Farihah Shah
Without A Leg to Stand On, Untitled 03

Farihah Aliyah Shah (b. 1989) is a Canadian lens-based artist and educator based in Bradford, ON (Treaty 18) who explores identity formation through the colonial gaze, forced migration in relation to labour of goods and services, race, connectivity to land, and collective memory. She analyzes and critiques the photographic canon while building new narratives and archives that narrow gaps within her personal history addressing the intersectional nature of her identity: multi-diasporic, female-identified, Black, Caribbean, etc. Shah was the 2019 recipient of the John Hartman Award, long-listed in 2022 for the New Generation Photography Award, and the 2023 recipient of the CCI x WOPA Fellowship at the Perez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM). Shah is also the co-founding member of Mast Year Collective; an artist duo exploring kinship through collective practice. She has exhibited internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America.