Jamilah Sabur

Jamilah Sabur (b. Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica) is primarily interested in drawing attention to and facilitating climate resilience, both through her core art practice and in her community and advocacy work. In a poetic weave of metaphysics, language and geography, she challenges viewers to critically engage with humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world, and focuses on generating awareness of scientific and technological climate topics.

Sabur is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Inclusive Climate Futures and is a current member of the Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) advisory board for the PACE Index, a collaboration with zedela in Germany, pioneers in data-driven advocacy for historically marginalized communities in Europe.Sabur earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2009) from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a Master of Fine Arts (2014) from the University of California, San Diego. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami; Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Trust; New Orleans Museum of Art; The Bass in Miami Beach; University of Maryland, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the central bank of the Netherlands; and TD Bank Group Art Collection

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Commissioned Work

Filmed by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera