Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman

Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman is an emerging Somali-Indian multidisciplinary artist based in Ottawa and Montreal. Her art practice involves painting and video art. Through the re-working of family photo albums, Abdourahman’s work addresses her cultural history, using her art practice to connect with her homeland from a first-generation Canadian perspective. Through this process, she explores concepts of migration, familial history, and land occupation. Abdourahman is a graduate of Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2020).

Her work has been featured in the CBC Arts Documentary Series: Exhibitionists (2020). She has previously exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), Institut National Art Contemporain (2022), La Maison d’Haïti (2022), Gallery 101 (2022), Digital Art Resource Centre (2022), Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University (2022). She has designed murals for the Vanier Community Service Centre and Lansdowne & the Glebe Park (2020-2021). Abdourahman has also led creative workshops with Ottawa Art Gallery and Somerset West Community Health Centre (2021-2022). Most recently, Abdourahman completed a solo exhibition entitled L’exile at MIFO gallerie d’art Eugène-Racette.