Ibi Ibrahim (b. 1987, Michigan, United States) is a Yemeni-American visual artist, filmmaker and musician. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Ibrahim’s work explores various thematics surrounding immigration, gender and resilience, all marked by notions of in-betweenness, transition and the diasporic human experience. The photowork Ibrahim produced over the past decade aims to offer an idiosyncratic exploration of Arab identities through an artistic approach specifically highlighting queer Arab-American perspectives and intertwining storytelling with care practices, artistic research and advocacy. His work is part of a number of private collections as well as public collections including the British Museum, Colorado College, Arab American National Museum, Barjeel Art Foundation and Durham University Oriental Museum, among others. Selected solo exhibitions include; Like Every Leaving Wasn’t a Country, Entre, Vienna, Austria (2024); 21 March 2015, Soma Art Space, Berlin, Germany (2021); Departure / Arrival, The Lab Space, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan (2017); Lights, Leaves and Yemeni Coffee, JAMM Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2015). Selected group exhibitions include; For Those Who Couldn’t Cross the Sea, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland (2023), Diasporic Tremors, New York University Gallatin Galleries, New York, USA (2023), Cultivate and Grow, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, USA (2022); Divas: D'Oum Kalthoum à Dalida, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France (2021), Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement, and the Ban, Queens Museum, New York, USA (2018), Walls and Margins, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2015).
Ibrahim has been part of numerous art residencies including the Laundromat Project, New York, USA (2022); Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, USA (2020); Soma Art Space, Berlin, Germany (2020); Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan (2017); Beirut Art Residency, Beirut, Lebanon (2016); Cites Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2014) and others. He lives and works in New York.
