Abdullah Qureshi is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Rooted in traditions of abstraction, he incorporates gestural, poetic, and hybrid methodologies to address autobiography, sexuality, and queerness through painting, filmmaking, and immersive events. Through his doctoral project, Mythological Migrations: Imagining Queer Muslim Utopias – Artistic and Curatorial Strategies of Collaboration, Collective Resistance, and Coalition Building (Aalto University, Finland, 2017-2025), he examines the formations of queer identity and resistance in Muslim migratory contexts. Qureshi’s work has been exhibited internationally and conducted lectures, paper readings, and artist talks worldwide. In 2017, he received the Art and International Cooperation fellowship at Zurich University of the Arts, and in 2018, a research fellowship at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston. From 2022 to 2024, he was a Lecturer in Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, and a Visiting Faculty Member at Central Saint Martins, London. Qureshi is currently a Community Associate at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto
