23 May - 17 Aug 2025
Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Explore the relationship between contemporary practice and Islamic tradition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
Jameel Prize: Moving Images is the seventh edition of the Prize, focused on moving image and digital media work.
The exhibition brings together seven artists from across the Middle East and South Asia, whose diverse practices span film and photography, animation, installation, sound, sculpture, and virtual reality.
The finalists were selected by an international jury from over 300 applicants, following an open call. Ohida Khandakar was named the winner of the £25,000 prize for her film and installation Dream Your Museum, 2023.
Finalists
Marrim Akashi Sani
Jawa El Khash
Alia Farid
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian
Khandakar Ohida (Winner)
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
Zahra Malkani
Jury
Tristram Hunt – Director of the V&A (Chair)
Morehshin Allahyari – Artist and Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art, Stanford University
Ajlan Gharem – Artist and winner of Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics, 2021
Laura U. Marks – Grant Strate University Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
Sadia Shirazi – Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of South Asian Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, University of British Columbia
The Jameel Prize, founded in 2009, is run in partnership with Art Jameel.
