Exhibition Design

Select Various Venues 2024-2025

In my personal practice, I find exhibition design to be an exercise that combines my background in art, design, architecture, and storytelling. Below are select projects that involve transmuted research arriving at a venue, in aim to be provoking and delightful. As an educator in exhibition design, I sharpen my exhibition development skills on the daily, consulting on translating complex ideas into visually compelling, socially resonant work, across a variety of interfaces to a varied audience.

a stone from our land builds the ceiling of our sky
September 2025
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Co-Curated with Asem Kiyalova

Tying stories of stone throwing as an act rebellion and liberation, participants are asked to throw a pigment-laden rubber ball at the walls of the gallery. Lines of a poem by Ramzy Baroud line the lower section of the walls.

We stand alone, we throw a stone

We stand together, we throw a stone

We wipe a tear, we throw a stone

We bury a martyr, we throw a stone

UNFOLDING
September 2024
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Co-Curated with Ariana Martinez and Francisco echo Eraso
20 participating artists, 2 institutions
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We, the students of the world, exist in a constant state of suspended anticipation as we watch multiple genocides unfold on our screens, before our eyes — in real time. How can we commit to these struggles, not only as witnesses and documentarians, but also as practical forces for collective action?

من الماء للماء from water to water
November 2025
Eden Gardens, Pennsauken, NJ
Zaha Creative Collective x Islamic Relief USA

Cries of hope and stolen shores, we are made of the same water. As it flows, it heals, carries, cleans, and frees us. Like water, hope flows from one hand to the other. It is with great honor that we at Zaha Creative Collective co-sign Islamic Relief’s letter: “With love to Sudan, Palestine, & Syria,” by exhibiting this sensorial, interactive installation exploring the journey of giving and receiving. We challenge you to better understand the impact of your donations and weave together the tapestry of radical hope. Like water, hope flows from one hand to the other. As the people of Syria pray for the sweet relief of rain, Sudanese children sing on their travels to the dry Nile, reminding us of what the Palestinian women sitting on the beaches in Gaza have always known: every drop matters.

Saba Maheen

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