Tenant Highlight - Abdi Osman

Meet Wychwood Barns Tenant Abdi Osman!



Learn more about their practice in their own words:

"I am a multidisciplinary artist who practices photography, filmmaking, montage, drawing and painting. Based in Toronto, Canada, my practice consistently documents local and inter-national Black LGBT2Q+ communities. As a Black/African queer Muslim Somali Canadian, my complex intersecting identities inspire the subjects that I document. "

"In my work thus far, I have been concerned with representing and complicating the gaps evident in hegemonic or normative representations of Black/African peoples. I am interested in representing Black/African peoples who are queer, HIV positive, and transgender/transsexual to broaden ideas about what Blackness is, was and can be."

See more of Abdi's work:

1. Looking the World in the Face, Canada Gallery at the High Commission of Canada, London, UK.
October 14, 2026 - May 1, 2027
2. Unruly Visions, an[other]space, Lahore, Pakistan
October 8, 2026 - November 4, 2026

Connect on social media: 

INSTAGRAM: Lansdowne_blipster
WEBSITE: https://abdiosman.com/about/