zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal

from before, and after35mm film photograph2022
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entry #435mm film scans on Canson Rag Photographique, archival paper double mounted - 5' x 7’, 16" x 24"2021
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to render the infinite 11 minutes, 23 secondsone channel video2021
In collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives, composer and Black cultural historian Ayana Contreras
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a more suitable design3 minutes, 12 second - loopedone channel video2021
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Hey, I’ve Been Concernedink, graphite, and charcoal on india cotton rag paper40" x 50”2019 - 2020
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Krystal and Ruth35mm film scanarchival photograph2018 
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zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal

zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production. She explores this through social portraiture, video assemblage, collage, drawing, and found images. She seeks to reinforce a different kind of gaze (and gazing) which she processes through empathy, desire, love, queer identity, family, intimacy, illegibility, and poetics. Within her projects there's an overlying theme of trying to make sense of what and who she belongs to across time, location, and space. 

Ultimately, she intends for her work to encourage ways of being and feeling beyond the systems we inhabit.

In addition to being a featured artist with Glass Breakfast, zakkiyah is a Co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers) and you can find zakkiyyah's work at zakkiyyahnajeebah.com.

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2024 Oneota Film Festival