Education
2016-2020 Concordia University (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Studio Arts)
Solo Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming) Forest City Gallery, London, ON
(Forthcoming) City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2024 (Forthcoming) Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON
Praises Unsung, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2023 Chez soi, Gallery B, Bouclair Griffintown, Montreal, QC
2022 L’exil, MIFO Gallerie d’art Eugène-Racette, Ottawa, ON
Duo Exhibitions
2023 Discontinuous, Heterogeneous, and Pluriversal, Lalande + Doyle, Shenkman Art Centre, Ottawa, ON
2022 Le dernier des touristes, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 Transposing: Comic Cartoons, Female Bodies, Witches, Goddesses, Daughters, Artists, Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, NY
2023 Rising Tide, Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection, City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Finalist Exhibition, Salt Spring National Art Prize, Salt Spring Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC
We do not dream of labour, Galerie Annexe, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Art Volt Collection Annual Launch Exhibition, Le Livart, Montreal, QC
In Living Colour: Showing the Creative ACB Experience in Ottawa, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, ON
Tales, Senate of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2022 Formats à emporter, Institut National Art contemporain, Montreal, QC
Shifting Ground, DARC Project Space (Digital Arts Resource Centre), Ottawa, ON
Plethora, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK
Alhamdu Muslim Futurism, Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Durham, NC
Exposition Entre, La P’tite Porte, Montreal, QC
Collectif Union Urbaine, Galerie Espace Urbain, Montreal, QC
Trait D’Union, Centre culturel Marocain à Montréal, Montreal, QC
Dos à dos, face à face, Institut National Art contemporain, Montreal, QC
Double Dutch, Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, ON
2021 Artch, Dorchester Square, Montreal, QC
Filtered, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Residencies & Studio Programs
2024 (Forthcoming) Wassaic Project, Amenia, NY
(Forthcoming) Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 50th Anniversary Fellowship Fund, Amherst, VA
Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, NY
2023-24 The Canopy Program, NYC Crit Club, Virtual
2023 Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, SN
Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Bouclair Residency in Digital Arts, Art Volt, Montreal, QC
2021 Artch entrepreneurship training, Montreal, QC
2020 CBC Arts: Exhibitionists, Virtual
Awards / Grants / Accomplishments
2024 Youth in Culture Pilot Program, City of Ottawa
2023 Salt Spring National Art Prize, The Joan McConnell Award
Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Creation Projects
Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad, Residencies
The James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship, NYC Crit Club
Salt Spring National Art Prize finalist
Equity and Inclusion in the Arts Fund, Seed Award Category, City of Ottawa
ARTicipate, Shenkman Art Centre
Emerging IBPOC Artist Award finalist, Ottawa Arts Council
2022 RBC Emerging artist, promoted during Black History Month
2021 Youth in Culture Pilot Program, City of Ottawa
2019 Silk Road Institute, Ground Breaking Artistic Projects
Workshops / Panels / Presentations
2024 Artist Talk, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2023 Patterns of Home workshop, Ottawa Catholic School Board, Virtual
2022 Workshop with Ottawa Art Gallery for summer campers, Ottawa, ON
Artist talk and workshop with Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
Workshop with Somerset West Community Health Centre, Virtual
2021 House of PainT Knowledge Conference, Virtual
Workshop with the Carlton Community Centre, Virtual
Artist talk for summer campers at Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Auctions & Donations
2022 Donated work for Ottawa Arts Council’s LUCK! 2022
2021 Auctioned work with Encans de la quarantaine
Murals & Public Art
2022 Galerie des placottoirs de la rue Castelnau, City of Montreal
2021 Lansdowne and the Glebe Art Cubes mural artist
Filtered exhibition at OAG, collaborated on 3 part mural and sound installation
Mural design Programme FrancoFun for Vanier Community Service Centre
Press & Publications
2023 Galleries West, The Salt Spring National Art Prize Society announces awards
Arts To Hearts Project, In Studio With Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman
Al-Tiba9 Issue 12 Print Magazine, Discover the international art scene with Al-Tiba9
2022 Revue Relations, Vivre sans statut au Québec
Gallery 101, People… Places.. Fragments.. memories.. piecing together to make whole
CBC, Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman creates new art work for CBC Ottawa’s community newsletter
2021 Ottawa Inshallah
C2 Montreal, Artch: A creative springboard for emerging artists in the great economic restart
Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Inshallah: Anthology of Muslim artists pictures a bright future
Radio Canada, Nouvelle murale à la Galerie d’art d’Ottawa
2020 Affirmative Girls, Sarah-Mecca – Master of Many Art Mediums
2014 Muslim Link, Young Artist Competes to Create a Masterpiece
Collections
2023 City of Ottawa Art Collections
2023 Art Volt Collections
2021 City of Ottawa Art Collections