Press + awards
Block Club Chicago | October 16, 2023
Chicago Lawn Studio Debuts ‘Envisioning Liberation’ Exhibit By Local Artist, Community Organizer
ANTHEM AWARDS recognition | February 15, 2023
United We Dream - Immigrant Day of Resilience Mural
CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION | February 15, 2023
Shirien Damra - Chicago Artists Coalition SPARK Microgrant Recipient
CREATIVE BOOM | APRIL 21, 2021
Artist Shirien Damra's moving mural marks America's first 'Immigrant Day of Resilience'
BUST MAGAZINE | March 15, 2021
Social Justice Illustrator Shirien Damra Re-envisions A Better Future Through Art
THE ADVOCATE | AUGUST 10, 2020
Meet Shirien Damra, The Illustrator Behind Our New Cover
MIC | JUNE 19, 2020
Meet the women behind the viral protest art all over Instagram
BUSTLE | JUNE 18, 2020
40 Illustrators, Graphic Designers, & Muralists Creating Revolutionary Work
CNN | JUNE 12, 2020
'My emotions were so raw': The people creating art to remember George Floyd
HYPEBEAST | juNE 4, 2020
How Artists Are Responding to U.S. Protests Over Police Brutality and Racism
LA TIMES | June 2, 2020
How viral Instagram tributes to George Floyd use art to spread a movement
ELLE | May 28, 2020
The Social Justice Artist Behind The Powerful Portraits You Keep Sharing On Instagram
exhibits + displays
IMANifest ART Studios, CHICAGO | OCTOBER 2023 - PRESENT
Envisioning Liberation, an exhibition on healing, resistance, and imagination
IMANifest ART Studios, CHICAGO | DECEMBeR 2022 - PRESENT
The People Made This, a multimedia exhibit to showcase the history of Chicago community organization IMAN for its 25th anniversary
OAK PARK, IL | SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT
Mini mural created after art was selected by the Oak Park Area Arts Council
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | SPRING 2022
Ye Shall Inherit the Earth & Faces of the Divine, art and spirituality in the struggle for liberation
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | FEBRUARY 2022
Intersections & Healings: Art as a Language of Solidarity in Honor of Black History Month
WASHINGTON, DC | APRIL 2021 - PRESENT
Mural display created in partnership with United We Dream X Matter Unlimited for Immigrant Resilience Day
Co-Prosperity Sphere, CHICAGO | June-Sept 2020
Justice. Defund. Abolish: For Black Lives, a collection curated by Justseeds Art Cooperative and For the People Artists Collective
P.O. Box Collective, Chicago | June-July 2020
Where We Are Now, a curated street gallery that speaks to this moment of rebellion and pandemic
Flannels Oxford Street Flagship, London | may 2020
W1Curates X Amplifier public exhibit showcasing public safety, wellbeing and visions for the future during these uncertain times
P.O. Box Collective, Chicago | October 2019
FOUND: Love Letters of Muslim Resistance and Community