shimby zegeye-gebrehiwot biography

 

shimby zegeye-gebrehiwot is an artist and administrator who currently works and resides between Treaty 1 and Treaty 4 territories. Their practice engages with themes of place and its abstraction from a diasporic, queer and feminist perspective. They have received funding from municipal, provincial and national arts councils as well as awards from local and transnational arts organizations. Their experimental film work has been reviewed in Blackflash magazine and the Winnipeg Free Press while screening internationally. Their art writing has appeared in the Capilano Review as well as in the form of commissioned essays at artist run centres in Winnipeg.

Currently, they are the Executive Director at the Saskatchewan Filmpool, Co-Director of WNDX Festival of Moving Image and guest editor of the forthcoming Art&Wonder publication.