Arshia Fatima Haq
July 2023
India

Arshia Fatima Haq (Hyderabad, India) works in film, visual arts, performance and sound. She works through counter-attacks and speculative narratives. She currently explores themes of embodiment, mysticism, indigenous knowledge, located within the context of Sufism. She is the founder of Discostan, a collaborative decolonial project and record label working with cultural production from South and West Asia and North Africa. She presents and produces monthly radio programs on NTS. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, nightclubs and on the streets, and has been featured at MOMA New York, Hammer Museum, Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Broad Museum, LACE, Toronto International Film Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, NPR and Pacific Film Archive, among others. He received his MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts and currently resides in Los Angeles.