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Nabil Vega is a South Asian Muslim genderqueer media artist with an interest in creative organizing. Their expressions utilize photography, performance and moving image to explore post 9/11 narratives that intersect with South Asian diasporic experiences. Vega maintains the personal is political- which expands the work from an orientalist lens into considering its role in digital, intimate and banal spaces.

Their work has been exhibited nationally, internationally & in publications like The Boston Globe, The Washington Post & The Aerogram. Past curatorial projects include RQP: Radical Queer Possibilities, an organizing initiative focused on queer people of colour, and currently VIX: Virtual International Exchange, a performance platform that focuses on queering spaces places and gestures. Vega has been the Artist in Residence at Industry Lab, Cambridge; Boston Center for the Arts & currently Media Manager at Hume Chicago, an artist led project space serving the Logan Square/Humboldt Park neighborhood.