Kariima Ali (b.1993) is a visual artist, doctoral researcher and curator based in London, England.
She is also a founding member of the interdisciplinary art collective Thicker Black Lines and chair of the board at Idle Women.
Education/Experience
PhD in History at the Centre for Equality, Justice and Social Change, University of Roehampton, 2025
MA in Cultural Studies at Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS University of London, 2016
BSc in Psychology at Goldsmiths University, 2015
Selected Exhibitions/Publications
Feral Feminisms | Issue 16: Black British Feminisms and Performance 2025
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers’, Somerset House 2019
(Un)common Space, Tate Britain 2019
We Apologise For The Delay To Your Journey’, Tate Modern, Tate Exchange 2018
Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter Residency, Project Row Houses| Houston, Texas 2017
We Are Here’ Exhibit, Alev Lenz Gallery 2017
Selected Press
Featured in: Grant, Catherine. A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art. Duke University Press, 2022.
‘Black art: ‘Do-it-yourself, do-it-right-now’ | Zoe Whitley for The Financial Times
‘Resistance, Rebellion, and Culture: Exhibitions Around London Renew Questions About a So-Called Black Aesthetic’ | ARTnews (Spring 2018 Issue)
‘BWA for BLM Offers Space for Dialogue Between Black Female Artists in NY, LA, Houston, and London’ | Creators Project (VICE)
Contact: Kariima.ali93@gmail.com