Raqeebah Zaman is a lens-based and mixed-media artist. Her practice explores postcolonial ecologies and dreamscapes that influence and reflect her psyche as a Muslim Caribbean woman, descendent of South Asian indentured servants and first-generation immigrant in the United States.
Raqeebah was born in Guyana, South America and double majored in Film and Cinema Studies at the University of Central Florida. She is currently based in Little Guyana, Queens, New York where she was raised for the majority of her childhood.
Her work has been displayed locally, nationally and globally at the Third Horizon Film Festival in Miami, Florida, Timehri Film Festival in Georgetown, Guyana, Bihar Biennial in India, King Manor Museum in Queens, New York, and the University of Maryland’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center amongst others. Raqeebah was also a grant recipient of Kodak, Panavision and the Queens Art Fund.