About

Niema Qureshi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct, in the Art Education Department at SAIC (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago). She has worked with CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education) since 2011 as a teaching artist and served on CAPE’s Board of Directors from 2016 to 2022.

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

She holds a BA in Visual Studies from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, London, England.