NOOR KHAN
by@noorkhan.co / www.noorkhan.co / @bynoorkhan
EDUCATION
2022 Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Community Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art.
2022 Certificate, College Teaching of Art (CTA), Maryland Institute College of Art.
2020 Certificate, Digital Media Skills, School of Continuing Studies, OCAD U.
2017 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Community Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Present Artist, Director & Producer, By Noor Khan Productions, Intl.
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Resident, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCa), North Adams, MA.
2023 Resident, Doris McCarthy Gallery (DMG), Toronto, ON.
2021 Resident, Baltimore Youth Arts, Baltimore, MD.
2021 Fellow, The Space for Creative Imagination, MICA, Baltimore, MD.
2018 Fellow, NeXtDoc Film Fellowship, YouthFX, Albany, NY.
2018 Fellow, Mural Arts Career Development (MACD) Program, Mural Routes, Toronto, ON.
AWARDS
2020 Willie Dunn Award, Sub-recipient chosen by Laurieann Gibson, Prism Prize, Toronto, ON.
2020 Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Foundation M.F.A. Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2020 Community Arts M.F.A. Top Candidate Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2019 Silver Prize Award Winner, So You Think You Can Pitch? Competition, Reel Asian Film Festival, Toronto, ON.
2018 Award Recipient, Jurors' Choice Youth Award, Scarborough Arts, Toronto, ON.
2017 Award Recipient, Social Justice Award, Scarborough Campus Students’ Union, Toronto, ON.
GRANTS
2021 Grant Recipient, Graduate Research Development Grant, MICA, Baltimore, MD.
2021 Grant Recipient, FleX Fund, YouthFX, Albany, NY.
2020 Grant Recipient, Video Production Grant, FACTOR Canada.
2019 Finalist, Opening Night: Emerging Directors' Spotlight & Pitch Competition, Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, ON.
2019 Bursary Recipient, Artscape Foundation Launchpad Bursary, Toronto, ON.
2019 Grant Recipient, Skills and Career Development: Indigenous Arts Professionals and Arts Professionals of Colour, Ontario Arts Council.
2019 Grant Recipient, Animating Toronto Streets, Toronto Arts Council.
2019 Grant Recipient, The Music Video Production (MVP) Project, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
2018 Grant Recipient, CUE Artist Grant, CUE Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2017 Grant Recipient, CUE Artist Grant, CUE Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2017 Grant Recipient, Equity & Diversity in the Arts Grant, Dept. of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough.
EXHIBITIONS
2021 ‘EMPIRE’, AWAKENINGS by City of Toronto’s Toronto History Museums, Scarborough Museum Toronto, ON.
2020 ‘The Space Project’ by Make Room Inc., #Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2019 ‘PostScript’: A Duo Exhibit, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON.
2019 ‘PostScript: A Duo Exhibit, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON.
2019 ‘Habibiz’, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2018 ‘Equity through Emergence’: 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Scarborough Arts, Toronto ON.
2018 CUE Art Show, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2018 ‘Terms & Conditions’, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2018 ‘OUTREACH 2018 - IM | BALANCE’, GALLERY44, Toronto, ON.
2018 ‘Sanctuary Inter/Upted’, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto, ON.
2016 ‘breakin’ cycles’, Gallery 1265, Toronto, ON.
2015 ‘Diaspeiro: Migration, Mobility & Memory’, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
SCREENINGS
2020 Stop Hate With Film Festival, Washington, DC.
2019 Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, ON.
2019 Represent Film Festival, Los Angeles, California.
2019 Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
2019 “Building Community, Accessing Justice: In Conversation with Catherine Hernandez”, Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, ON.
2018 Reel Asian Film Festival, Toronto, ON.
2018 Nazra Palestine Short Film Festival, Milan, Italy.
2018 Canadian Labour International Film Festival- CLiFF, Toronto, ON.
2018 31x31: Making Moments into Movements, Celebration Square, Mississauga, ON.
2018 Annual General Meeting, SKETCH, Toronto, ON.
ARTIST TALKS, WORKSHOPS & PANELS
2020 Guest Lecturer, ‘Diasporic-Indigenous Relations on Turtle Island’, Department of English, University of Toronto.
2019 Guest Lecturer, ‘Our Role as Racialized Settlers’, Department of Asian American Studies, University of Southern California.
2019 Mentor, Music Video Treatment Workshop with Jared Raab, LeSean Harris, Noor Khan, Sara Elgamal and Cazhhmere, hosted by Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and WATRVISION.
2019 Guest Lecturer, Class Talk with Scarborough-based Director Noor Khan, Indigenous Literature of Turtle Island, Department of English, University of Toronto.
2018 Panelist, Career Paths Panel, Department of English, University of Toronto.
2017 Workshop Facilitator, Women & Trans* Centre Conference, University of Toronto.
2014 Panelist, OISE DE/COLONIZE Conference, University of Toronto.
PUBLICATIONS, PRESS & MEDIA
2021 ‘Sample the videos, music and dance of Awakenings and you’ll never look at Toronto history the same way again’, by Ariel Teplitsky, Toronto Star.
2021 ‘AWAKENINGS Reflections with Noor Khan’ City of Toronto’s Toronto History Museums.
2020 ‘Interview with Noor Khan’, Insomniac Film Festival, Toronto, ON.
2020 ‘Bonus EPI’, Burn Out Podcast by Anupa Mistry.
2019 ‘The top 10 art exhibits to see at Nuit Blanche this year’ by Goldie Poll, TRNTO.
2019 ‘4 Immersive Experiences at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche’ by Sharine Taylor, Azure Magazine.
2019 ‘Nuit Blanche 2019: 10 events for music lovers’ by Samantha Edwards & Richard Trapunski, NOW Magazine.
2019 ‘Nuit Blanche exhibit conveys marginalization of Parkdale and Scarborough’ by Rory O’Neill, toronto.com.
2019 ‘Land Marks: Subversive Cartography Maps the Margins’ by Adwoa Afful, The Heat Issue (#83), Bitch Media.
2019 ‘Episode 66: I WAS OUTSIDE WHILE YOU WERE INSIDE ft. Noor Khan’ for High Top Flip Flops podcast.
2019 ‘Jessie Reyez, Jeremy Dutcher, Milk & Bone among 1st recipients of new Canadian music video fund’ by Holly Gordon for CBC Music.
2019 ‘Music video grant MVP Project announces first nine recipients’ by Richard Trapunski, NOW Magazine.
2019 ‘Alumni Profiles: Noor Khan’, Department of English, University of Toronto Scarborough.
2019 ‘Sanctuary Inter/rupted : Borders, illegalization, and unbelonging’ by Mitra Fakhrashrafi, Jessica Kirk & Emily Gilbert, The Canadian Geographer, Volume 63 : Issue 1, Special Section: Borders, Borderlands, and Bordering in Canada.
2018 ‘Artists Randell Adjei, Harmony Pike, Hiba Abdallah and Noor Khan ahead of Nuit Blanche 2018’, Here and Now with Gill Deacon, CBC Radio.
2017 ‘Spectrum’ Muslimah Photo Series - Senate Of Canada by Masooma Ali, Canadian Council for Muslim Women (CCMW).
FILM CREDITS
2021 ‘ROLLA’ - Liza, Music Video, Director and Producer, FACTOR Canada.
2020 ‘90BPM’ - Sean Leon, Music Video, Producer, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
2020 ‘A Muse’ - DVSN, Music Video, Art Production Assistant, Warner Records & OVO Sound.
2020 ‘February’ - Untradition, Music Video, Production Assistant, Independent.
2020 ‘PostScript’, Short Film, Director, Producer, & Cinematographer, Toronto Arts Council.
2019 ‘CRACK’ - Untradition, Music Video, Production Assistant, Independent.
2018 ‘EAST: A Relationship’, Short Film, Writer, Director, and Producer, Independent.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST