About

Niema Qureshi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is a lecturer at SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) in the Art Education Department. She has also worked with CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education) since 2011 as a teaching artist and joined CAPE’s board in 2016.

Previously Niema worked as a teaching artist for Marwen, as well as museum educator for The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Terra Museum of American Art.

Niema graduated from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England (BA, Visual Studies) and Chelsea College of Arts, London, England (MA, Fine Art).