Mahbuba Yasmin is a Dhaka-born asexual queer activist, artist, and curator with a BFA in Ceramics and an MFA in Painting, who has developed her curatorial practice as a self-taught, community-rooted discipline. With more than a decade of experience, she has shaped artist-led, community engaged contemporary art projects across Bangladesh and beyond. She is the Founder of Epiphania Visuals, the country’s first queer art gallery and an experimental platform dedicated to collective care, grassroots storytelling, and decolonial creative methodologies.
\nOver the past ten years, Yasmin has curated over 30 exhibitions featuring performance, moving image, digital practices, material experimentation, and community-based art. Her work strongly centers underrepresented voices—including queer, trans, gender-diverse, and rural artists—through commissioning new works, research facilitation, and long-term mentorship.
\nShe collaborates widely with regional and international institutions, grassroots queer movements, and Muslim queer cultural archives, advancing partnerships that address urgent socio political realities with vision, sensitivity, and relational ethics.
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