- [2559] Doctor of Philosophy, Fine Art, RMIT University Melbourne, 2559

SOLO EXHIBITION

2023 – ‘A Hope and Peace to End all Hope and Peace’, 2023, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (UPCOMING)
2019 – ‘We have found in the ashes what we have lost in the fire’, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 – ‘The Patterns of Displacement’, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – ‘The Notion of Place and Displacement’, MARC Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – ‘Reframe “Home” with Patterns of Displacement’, 2017 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – ‘The Patterns of Displacement in Context of Home’, Emerge in Yarra Festival 2017, Multicultural Arts Victoria, AUS
2016 – ‘Materiality and Form’, RMIT School of Art Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – ‘Hanging Issues’, 2015 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, The Atrium Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – ‘Irhal (Expel)’; 2015 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, No Vacancy Project Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 – ‘Landlock’ Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2012 – ‘Hanging Issues’, Ne Na Contemporary Art Space / Baan Monfai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 – ‘Poetic reading for material transformation’, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
2011 – ‘Aesthetics of change’, Schrinerhalle Gallery, Zug, Switzerland
2010 – ‘Narrative of change through materials’, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 – Pollock Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 – ASPIC-Le Menilmuche, Paris, France
2004 – Slemani Museum Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2003 – ‘Searching for Home In the Face of Exile’, TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997 – Gallery of Meads Youth Center, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1996 – Museum Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
1990 – Gallery of Kerkwk Technology Institute, Kerkwk, Kurdistan
1989 – Museum Hall, Sulaimani, Kurdistan

COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS

2018 – Project: ‘What’s Left Behind’, the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, AUS
2018 – Keynote Performance: ‘What’s Left Behind’, Art & Artists: Public Galleries Summit 2018, Carriageworks, Sydney, AUS
2017 – ‘The Invisible’ Project Exhibition, UTS ART Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 – ‘Wrapped in Culture’, Collaboration Project, Ne Na Contemporary Art Space/Baan Monfai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014 – ‘The After State’, Collaboration Project Exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – ‘Material Perception’ (Part 2), First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – ‘Material Perception’ (Part 1), D11 Artist-Led Exhibition Space, Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 – Artes Mundi 10: National Museum Cardiff, UK (UPCOMING)
2023 – The Sharjah Biennial 15: “Thinking Historically in the Present”, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023 – ‘In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises‘, Galleries 1-6 Al Mureijah Art Spaces, Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023 – ‘Walking Through the Darkness’, The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2022 – ‘wHole’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2022 – ‘Archives of Feeling: Trauma, Knowledge, Empathy’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022 – ‘Now’, Esta Gallery, The Culture Factory, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2022 – ‘Art in Conflict’, touring exhibition of the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Shepparton Art Museum, Australia
2022 – ‘Art in Conflict’, touring exhibition of the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Ipswich Art Gallery, Australia
2022 – The 67th Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
2021 – ‘The Tides of the Century’, The Ocean Flower Island Museum, Danzhou, Hainan Province, China
2021 – BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2021 / 2nd edition”, Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2021 – ‘In The Beginning’, Ed Cross Fine Art, London, UK
2020 – The 2nd Bangkok Art Biennale 2020: ‘Escape Routes’, Bangkok, Thailand
2020 – The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
2020 – ‘The New (ab)Normal’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 – RMUTT International Art Workshop, Rajamangala University Lanna, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2020 – 15th International Visual Arts and Workshop Exhibition, PohChang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand
2019 – 13th Havana Biennial 2019, Project: “Intercambio”, The Casa de Asia Museum, Havana, Cuba
2019 – ‘The National 2019: New Australian Art’, the Second of Three Biennial Surveys, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
2019 – ’52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS’, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2019 – ‘Road Through Kurdistan, P21 Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019 – ‘1st International Fine Arts Exchange Exhibition’, Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, Da Nang, Vietnam
2019 – ‘Transition’, LIGHTSCAPES / Rodda Lane, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2019 – ‘Elementary Complexity’, CMU Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2019 – ‘These Words’, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne, Australia
2019 – ‘SO: Collaborative Project’, CMU Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 – 12th Gwangju Biennale 2018: ‘Imagined Borders’, Gwangju, Republic of KOREA
2018 – ‘Temporary Certainty’, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2018 – ARTBAR November 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia – MCA, Sydney, Australia
2018 – 10th Anniversary, Seascape Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 – Project: ‘What’s Left Behind’, the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia – MCA, Sydney, Australia
2018 – ‘Hyphenated’, The Substations Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 – ‘The Trace’, Wellington St Projects, Sydney, Australia
2018 – ‘In-ConTEXT’, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2018 – ’50 MINUTES …Video Art’: A Group Show of 8 Kurdish Artists, Citadel Cultural Centre, Erbil, Kurdistan
2018 – ‘Cultural Crossroads’, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, USA
2018 – RMUTL International Art Workshop, Rajamangala University Lanna, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2018 – 13th International Visual Arts and Workshop Exhibition, Poh Chang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 – ‘OCTOPUS 17: Forever Transformed’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – Melbourne Festival ‘An unorthodox flow of images’, Centre for Contemporary Photography – CCP, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – ‘The Invisible’ Project Exhibition, UTS ART Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017 – ‘ MoreArt 2017: Where Have We Come To?’, Brunswick Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2017, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – Darebin Art Prize 2017, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – SWELL Sculpture Festival, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia
2017 – JAALA Biennale, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 – 12th International Arts and Workshop Exhibition, Rajamangala University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
2017 – 12th International Visual Arts and Workshop Exhibition, PohChang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 – Let’s cross the Sea’, BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – ‘BOO’, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 – The Installation Zone, The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair 2016, Toronto, Canada
2016 – Pinpoint-Banyule Contemporary Art Fair, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2016 – ‘Play2’ Blindside Projects, Satellite Projects, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2016 – 20th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Kawasaki, Japan
2015 – Darebin Art Prize 2015, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – ‘Art For Social Change’, 2015 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – In Space’, The 2015 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – ‘Lost in Translocation’, Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – ‘Moreland Summer Show 2014’, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – ‘4A A4’, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2014 – 19th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
2014 – 3rd International Emerging Artist Award (IEAA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2014 – ‘Superfictions 1: The Art Fair Murders’, Kings Artist-Run Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – ‘WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE FESTIVAL’, RMIT School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – Australian War Memorial, Gallery: Permanent Display, Canberra, Australia
2014 – ‘Chaos; Yesterday and today’, Dark Horse Experiment Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 – Burapha Arts Exhibition Connect: Expand and ‘3 X 3’ Project, The National Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 – ‘Landlock’ Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2013 – ANL Maritime Art Prize, The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, Australia
2012 – 18th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2012 – Future Visions at the Australia festival, Divonne-les Bains, Grilly, France
2012 – ‘Matter and Space’, Ne Na Contemporary Art Space / Baan Monfai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 – ‘When the Image Takes Form’, Mølla Kulturhus på Grim, Norway
2011 – ‘Untitled’, Sardam Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2010 – Siemens – RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards, RMIT Galler, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – 17th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
2010 – Survival of a culture: Kurds in Australia”, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – Master of Fine Art, Graduate Show, The Gossard Building, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – RMIT School of Art Gallery, “Place”, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – ANL Maritime Art Prize & Exhibition, The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, ‘Is What Is’, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – Melbourne Fringe Festival, Brunswick Art Space, “Marking Time”, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – Darebin Art Show, Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2010 – Collingwood Gallery, ‘From The Jungle To The Desert …’, Melbourne, Australia
2009 – Space Gallery, ‘POST ‘, Melbourne, Australia
2009 – NG Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009 – Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2009 – Pollock Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 – Pigment Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 – 16th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008 – The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2008 – Pollock Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2008 – New Art Works Gallery, Canberra- Australia
2007 – 6th Lessedra international mini print, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
2007 – Pollock Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2007 – Art 4 Aid, Victoria Art Society Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2007 – Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2006 – TAH Exhibition, Sydney Antique Centre Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 – New Faces-New Works, Pollock Gallery, Melbourne- Australia
2004 – 14th JAALA International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004 – Scarborough civic centre &art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 – The White man, Slemani Museum Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2003 – Nude Exhibition, TAP Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 – International Faces Festival, Billas- Finland
2002 – Contemporary Kurdish Art, Synergy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002 – TAP Gallery, Freedom Show, Sydney, Australia
2002 – Australian Kurdish Cultural Center, Sydney, Australia
02-00 – Six exhibitions, Lavender Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2023 – Acquisition, Collection: Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023 – Mordant Family Collection.
2020 – Acquisition, Collection: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
2020 – The Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney, Australia
2019 – Acquisition, Collection: ART GALLERY OF NSW, AUS
2019 – Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, public Collection, Da Nang, Vietnam
2013 – Acquisition, Collection: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
2013 – Faculty of Fine Art and Applied Arts, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
2010 – Acquisition, Collection: The Kurdistan Regional Government, the Ministry of Arts & Culture, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
AND – Private Collections, Kurdistan and Australia.

TEXTS AND MEDIA

2022 – Rushdi Anwar, ‘One on One: Rushdi Anwar on Mulla Sadra Shirazi’, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 129; Jul/Aug 2022.
2022 – Blake Palmer, ‘The Only Thing You Can Hold to Is Memory’, The Art Monthly Australia, Issue 331, Autumn 2022.
2022 – Güven Özkerim, Merve. “Comparative Analysis of the Works of Walid Siti and Rushdi Anwar”. Idyll, 95 (July 2022): p. 1067–1075.
2021 – Panu Boonpipatanapong ‘artist who reflects on the atrocities of war’, THE MOMENTUM; Art and Politics, Aug 12, 2021
2021 – Emily Watkins, ‘We have found in the ashes what we have lost in the fire‘, ED CROSS FINE ART, February 18, 2021
2020 – SBS Radio Broadcast (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview, Feb 2021, Australia
2019 – Beers, Kurt. ‘100 Sculptors of Tomorrow’. Farnborough: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019.
2019 – Artspace Sydney, ’52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS’, Thames & Hudson Australia, 2019.
2019 – ‘The National 2019: New Australian Art’, Exhibition catalogue, Sydney, Australia
2019 – ‘The Patterns of Displacement’, WRITING & CONCEPTS 2017. Art + Australia Documents Series No. 3, University of Melbourne.
2018 – Biennale of Sydney 2018, Exhibition catalogue, ‘Superposition: Equilibrium & Engagement’, 2018.
2018 – 12th Gwangju Biennale 2018: ‘Imagined Borders’, Exhibition catalogue, 2018
2018 – Lee Weng Choy, ‘On the Intersections of Terror and Performance’, Di-van: A Journal of Accounts’, No. 5, University of New South Wales, (p130-137)
2018 – SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview, 30 August 2018, Sydney, Australia.
2017 – Garland magazine, ‘Hanging issues: Collaboration between photography and Lana paper making’, Issue 6: Village Nation-@Thailand
2016 – Mediya Rangi, ‘Hope and Sorrow of Displacement’, journal: Anthropology of the Middle East, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2016.
2015 – Nikki Lam, ‘The Ashes of War’, Peril Magazine; Featured, Edition 21, August 2015, Australia.
2015 – Jennifer Down, ‘Healing wounds’ The Saturday Paper, Portrait, 16 May 2015, Australia
2015 – Heidelberg Leader, Newspaper, 13 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – Art for Social Change, Exhibition catalogue, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – ‘In Space’, Exhibition catalogue, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview, 8 May 2015, Australia, Link
2015 – ‘Lost in Translocation’, Exhibition catalogue, Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview, 13 June 2014, Australia, Link
2014 – Dsetur, Interview By Zana Mohamad, Kurdistan, No; 71, 16 April
2013 – ARTIST PROFILE Magazine, Preview; Rushdi Anwar, Issue 25 November 2013-14, Australia, Link
2013 – SBS Radio (Kurdish Program) Australia, Interview, 8 September 2013, Australia, Link
2013 – Canberra Times, “Memorial collection takes a Kurdish turn” by Sally Pryor, 23 August 2013, Australia, Link
2013 – LANDLOCK’, Exhibition catalogue, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2013 – City News, ‘Chemical massacre transformed into art’ by Helen Musa, 22 August 2013, Australia, Link
2013 – 89.3FM 2GLF Broadcaster, Interview; ‘Landloch Exhibition’, 3 April 2013, Australia, Link
2013 – ABC Radio Australia, Interview; ‘Hua Krathi’ brings Thai artists to Melbourne, 7 March 2013, Australia, Link
2012 – Melbourne Leader, Interview with SUSAN WINDMILLER “discusses life’s influences”, February 2012, Australia, Link
2012 – Melbourne Leader 2 January 2012, Australia, Link
2011 – ‘Edeb u Huner’, Kurdistani Nwe, Kurdistan, No; 755, November 3th
2011 – Gali Kurdistan TV-Satellite, (Interview) Art program ‘barnamai WENA’, 25 October
2011 – ‘Edeb u Huner’, Kurdistani New, Kurdistan, No; 5543, 28 July
2011 – Gali Kurdistan TV-Satellite, (Interview) Art program ‘Aweze’, 18 May
2011 – KNN TV satellite, (Interview) Art program ‘Sako’, 26 May
2011 – Kurdistan TV-Satellite, (Interview) program ‘Roj Bash’, 24 May
2011 – ‘Edeb u Huner’, Kurdistani Nwe, Kurdistan, No; 5432, March 17th
2011 – Neue Zuger Zeitung, Zug – Switzerland, No; 59, March 11th
2010 – Kurdistan TV, (Interview) Art program, 10 December
2010 – ‘Survival of a culture: Kurds in Australia’, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, September
2009 – Kurdistan TV. Documentary Art Program, 14 October
2009 – KWRDISTAN RAPORT, Kurdistan, No; 697, September 7th
2009 – Kurdistan TV, New Day program, January
2009 – Shewakari Art Magazin, Kurdistan, Issue 25
2008 – AYNDE Magazine, Kurdistan, Issue 79
2006 – HOGU DONGAH, a Korean newspaper, Sydney, No: 3494, 10 March
2005 – KWRDISTANY NWE, Kurdistan, No; 3714, 2 April
2004 – Edeb & Huner, Kurdistan, No: 3389, 10 June
2004 – Edeb & Huner, Kurdistan, No: 3383, 6 June
2004 – Edeb & Huner, Kurdistan, No: 3371, 5 May
2004 – KURDSAT TV, art program, April
2004 – AZADY TV, art Program, April
2004 – KURDISTAN TV, art program, April
2004 – PUK TV, April
2004 – AYNDE Magazine, Kurdistan, Issue 55
2004 – AL FURAT, Sydney, Australia, issue 22, 18 March
2003 – SBS Radio, Kurdish program, Sydney Australia.
2002 – Voice of America Broadcast, USA, Kurdish program 2002  AL ITTIHAD, Kurdistan, No: 492, 27 September
2002 – X KULTURAL ART Magazine, Sydney, Australia, Volume: 2- issue: 14 May
1997 – Alay Azady, Kurdistan, issue 226, 10 March
1997 – AL ITTIHAD, Kurdistan, No: 206, 22 February
1996 – PUK TV, Kurdistan, Art program

CURATORIAL PRACTICE

WRAPPED IN CULTURE PROJECT, 2015; Community art project and exhibition Collaboration

Curated by: Rushdi Anwar and Melanie Jayne Taylor
Recipients of Australia-Thailand Institute’s- Artist-in-Residency Program 2014-2015

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government
Ne Na Contemporary Art Space/ Monfai Cultural Centre
Chiang Mai – Thailand

THE HUA KRATHI PROJECT
7 – 23 March 2013
Curated by: Rushdi Anwar, Melanie Jayne Taylor, Shukit Panmongkol
Co-organized by: Rushdi Anwar, Melanie Jayne
Locations:
1- RMIT University School of Art Gallery
2- Screen Space
3- A pop-up Gallery, Federation Square
4- Public Program, the Edge Federation Square

MATTER AND SPACE, 2012
Curated by: Rushdi Anwar
Ne Na Contemporary Art Space
Monfai Cultural Centre / Living Museum, Chiang Mai – Thailand
UNTITLED, 2011
Curated by: Rushdi Anwar
Sardam Gallery, Slemani, Kurdistan

GRANTS, RESIDENCY & AWARDS

2022 – The finalist shortlisted ‘Artes Mundi 10’, biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize, United Kingdom
2022 – Project funding grant, Arts projects for individuals and groups grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2020 – Project funding grant, Arts projects for individuals and groups grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2020 – The Finalist of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong.
2018 – Project funding grant, Arts projects for individuals and groups grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2017 – Art Residency Program, Project Time- Artist in Residence, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 – Art Residency Program, Rajamangala University of Technology (RMUTT), Pathum Thani, Thailand
2016 – Project funding grant, Arts projects for individuals and groups grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2016 – Project funding grant, Creative Victoria’s Vic Arts Grants program
2016 – Award A Space In The Installation Zone, The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair 2016, Toronto, Canada
2015 – Finalist, Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – Finalist, The 2015 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – Finalist, Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2015 – Art Residency, Ne’ Na Contemporary Art Space/ Baan Monfai Culture Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014 – Project funding grant, Artist In Residency Program 2014-15, The Australia-Thailand Institute, Australian Government
2014 – Golden 15 Finalists, 3rd International Emerging Artist Award (IEAA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2013 – Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australian Government
2013 – Art Residency, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2012 – Project funding grant, The Australia-Thailand Institute, Department of Foreign Affairs, Australian
2012 – Project funding grant, Victorian Multicultural Commission, Melbourne
2012 – Project funding grant, RMIT Link Arts; Culture, Melbourne
2012 – Art Residency, Ne’ Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011 – ArtStart grant, the Australia Council for the Arts
2011 – Project funding grant, The Ministry of Arts and Culture, Kurdistan Regional Government
2011 – Vice Chancellor’s List Award for Masters in Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
2010 – Siemens Awards Finalist, Fine Art Scholarship Awards, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2010 – Finalist, ANL, Maritime Art Award, Melbourne
2010 – Project funding grant, RMIT Link Arts and Culture, Melbourne
2009 – MFA Award, Master of Fine Art, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
2007 – Highly Recommended, Art 4 Aid, Melbourne