Jameel Prize: Moving Images

Name: Jameel Prize: Moving Images – 17th of August
Start: 2025-08-17T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

This exhibition explored the relationship between contemporary practice and Islamic tradition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.

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Jameel Prize: Moving Images was the seventh edition of the Prize, focused on moving image and digital media work.

The exhibition brought 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

Credits

Lead image: Khandakar Ohida, Dream Your Museum, 2022, video, courtesy of the artist

The Jameel Prize, founded in 2009, is run in partnership with Art Jameel.