Being and Belonging: Contemporary Women Artists from the Islamic World and Beyond

Jamelie Hassan participated in an international group exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2023-2024, with her mixed media installation, "Slippers of Disobedience". Being and Belonging: Contemporary Women Artists from the Islamic World and Beyond was a bold exhibition that explored the defining issues of our time from the perspective of 25 women artists from or connected to the broader Islamic world spanning across West Africa to Southeast Asia or living in diaspora. Deftly interrogating themes of identity, power, sexuality, and home, this exhibition resisted simple stereotypes with outstanding artworks from both emerging and well-established artists.

Being and Belonging in the News

• Toronto Star: The diverse women of the Islamic world get a show at the ROM 
• The Globe and Mail - At the ROM, female artists from the Islamic world hunt for metaphors
• NUVO - Being and Belonging Opens at the Royal Museum of Ontario