Jamilah Sabur

Jamilah Sabur 

b. 1987, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica
lives in Miami

Jamilah Sabur is a multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, video, and installation. She frequently references her Jamaican heritage, as well as geography and geology in her pieces, which explore the temporary nature of our world and of our fleeting presence in it, a fact that connects us all. She uses language and landscape to depict the relationship between memory and community. Hammer Projects: Jamilah Sabur was featured at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2019. Several galleries and institutions have exhibited her work, such as Nina Johnson, Miami; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, among others. Sabur earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (2009), and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (2014).

Jamilah Sabur. Un chemin escarpé / A steep path, 2018. Five-channel video installation; color, sound,10 min., 27 sec. Installation view from the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2019. Permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Courtesy of the Artist and Nina Johnson, Miami. Photo: Jeff McLane