Artist Biography

Lubnah Ansari (b. Kofu, Japan) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose practice spans moving image, installation, sculpture, sound, and text. Her practice examines the historical and contemporary relationships between South Asia and the Gulf, exploring how migration, coloniality, religion, and political memory are negotiated through archives, language, and embodied experience.

 

Drawing on ethnographic methods, archival inquiry, and collaborative forms of knowledge production, Ansari creates immersive installations and films that unsettle dominant historical narratives and foreground overlooked gestures, silences, and everyday acts of resistance. Working across moving image, sound, sculpture, text, and installation, she investigates the politics of translation, memory, and place, proposing alternative ways of witnessing, remembering, and imagining collective futures.

 

Ansari received an M.A. in Human Rights and the Arts from Bard College and a B.A. in Social Research and Public Policy from New York University Abu Dhabi. Her work has been exhibited at Bard College, Bayt Al Mamzar, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Jameel Arts Centre, and Satellite Space, among others. She has received support from the Center for the Study of Hate, the Center for Experimental Humanities, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Mophradat, and The Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, and has participated in residencies including Docustan in India and The Salama bint Hamdan Artist Fellowship in the UAE.