Umber Majeed

Umber Majeed is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She works across drawing, animation, and augmented reality to examine South Asian infrastructure and archives through a feminist lens, often combining handmade materials with digital technologies.

Umber Majeed is a queer Muslim woman descended from Pakistan who engages with archives to explore South Asian state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. Her practice moves between drawing, animation, and augmented reality works, often pairing painstakingly handmade materials—graph paper, colored pencils, and markers—with digital technologies. Her ongoing project Trans-Pakistan Zindabad begins with her uncle's failed travel agency from Islamabad's 1990s heyday, which she has revitalized as a speculative archive through layered research into family photographs, tourism ephemera, and the visual rhetoric of nation-building, luxury development, and consumer culture—asking how images of place and progress are manufactured and sold. She traces patriarchy embedded in nationalist movements through feminist analysis of Pakistan's urban infrastructure, dislocating the trauma of bureaucratic borders into digital representations of community.