Exhibitions and Articles
Exhibitions and workshops that displayed my paintings:
Afghan Cultural Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1998- My painting won the first prize award among 500 paintings
Centre Culturel Français de Kaboul, Video performance (short film) exhibition, 2005
Centre for Contemporary Art (CCAA) painting exhibition, Kabul, 2008
Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan (CCAA), Painting exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Kabul art project, Painting exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
International Afghan Women’s film festival, Short documentary video exhibition, Herat, Afghanistan. 2015
“Abroon” (name of a flower in Dari) in Shamama Gallery, Kabul, 2015
My paintings were exhibited in Ottawa, Canada in 2015
“Sokut” (means silence in Dari), March 2018
“Chahar Chob” (“four corners” in Dari) in Berang Arts gallery, Kabul, August 2019
“Red Women”, 24 June 2022 Kennedy center, Washington DC USA
I also participated in India-Afghanistan Women Artists Show in New Delhi, India, March 5th, 2018 and in International Visitor Leadership Program, Promoting Social Change through the Arts, in Washington, NYC, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Honolulu, June 10-28, 2019
Member of Parliament for marketplace One Journey Festival, June 24, 2022 and 2023, USA
Art fellowship, February 2023-February 2024, Artistic Freedom Initiative
Artist talk show and exhibition: SUN GIRLS, March 6-May 3, 2023, Founders Gallery, George Masonn University,Arlington, VA, USA
Art group exhibition: Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War , Worth Ryder Gallery Feb 22 - Mar 21, 2023, USA
Building Community: How the Arts Can Help Afghan Refugees, Perry World House, March 27, 2023. USA
Articles on the web about me and my art:
Artist Talk & Exhibition, “Sun Girls”, George Mason University, March 29, 2023
Global Lens, “Building Community: How the Arts Can Help Afghan Refugees”. Perry World House, March 27, 2023
Group Art Exhibition, “Afghan Emergenc(y): Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War”, University of California, Berkeley, February 22, 2023
“Inviting others to help write a story of success,” Blog, Their Story is Our Story, 24 October 2022
“Afghans Who Fled Their Homes During the Chaotic U.S. Withdrawal Reflect on the Last Year, PBS Newshour 24 August 2022
“I’ll do anything I can to save them all’: an Afghan contemporary artist on narrowly escaping the Taliban, The Art Newspaper, 16 December 2021
Afghanistan: The Allies’ House Of Cards, The Postil Magazine 1 September 2021
Fall of Kabul shatters young Afghans’ hopes and dreams, Gulf News 16 August 2021
Looking Back at Chahar Chob, Muheb Esmat, Marcaz, 15 July 2021
hidden inner feelings jahan ara rafi, Powderzine,
9 Artists Challenging Our Perceptions of Afghanistan, MIC, 10 September 2014
Afghan women’s paintings to showcase hope amid despair, Indian Express (Kolkata), 18 September 2008