Halima Haruna is a Nigerian artist and historian in the U.S. She is a World History PhD student at Northeastern University, Boston. Her creative practice revolves around cultural theory based on Nigerian socio-politics, mediated through performance and video. Her research interests are at the intersection of the decolonization of knowledge and epistemology through spiritual practice. She completed a fellowship with Digital Earth 2019, a program formed around the construction of images of the Earth’s techno-sphere. She received a MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018.
EXHIBITIONS and PUBLICATIONS
dedication; for me and mine in Technologies of the Sacred at Display, Prague. (05/2020 – 06/2020)
Images published for In Mirrors by Emmanuel Balogun in Limbo Magazine S/S Issue 1, 2020.
To Divine and Other Side of the Creek in Languid Hands presents ‘away, completely: denigrate (introduction and full shows) at Narrative Projects, London (06/2019) and (11/2019 till 02/2020)
Other Side of the Creek at the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters (11/2019 – 01/2020)
Other Side of the Creek in Video Art and Talk-001 [solo show] at A Walk Space, Abuja. (04/2019)
How to be Untranslatable: Directions in iiliimi lipsing (vol. 3, Oct. 2018) of Paperwork Magazine, London.
Group show with SorryYouFeelUncomfortable in But What Are You Doing About White Supremacy? at Many Studios for Glasgow International 2018. (03/2018)
GRANTS and CONFERENCES
The Gelede Festival: A Social Effort to Create a Moral Citizen, presented at the 67th Annual African Studies Association General Meeting (December 2024)
Ancestor Research Project: Earth as Oracle Work for Digital Earth Research Fellowship, Netherlands (September 2018 – March 2019)
What is Africa?, presented at Networks.Africa Research Lab at FreedomLab for The New Institute, Amsterdam (April 2019)
Creating Interference: Making Art, Developing Methods, Re-imagining Histories/Memories symposium at Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster, London (CREAM) (June 2018)
EDUCATION
PhD in World History at Northeastern University, Boston. (2023 – present, degree expected 2028)
MA in Research Architecture at Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. (2017 – 2018)
BA (Hons) in Architecture (2013 – 2016)
Academic fields of interest: African American women’s history, African diasporas, digital humanities, public history, disability studies.