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Symbiosis (2022) © HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Sonja Hyytiäinen

Nayab Noor Ikram (b.1992, Mariehamn) is a Finland-based visual artist and photographer of the Pakistani diaspora from the Åland Island, an autonomous, demilitarised, Swedish-speaking region of Finland. 
In her artistic practice, Ikram works with moving image, photography, performances, and installations exploring concepts dealing with the feeling of in-betweenship, cultural identity, and memory through rituals and symbolism.

Her works have been presented in exhibitions in Finland and internationally at The Finnish Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024, KR) Botkyrka Konsthall (2024, SE) Helsinki Kunsthalle (2023, FI) Gerðarsafn (2022, IS) Mänttä Art Festival (2021, FI) Västerås Art Museum (2020-2021, SE) and the European Parliament (2020, BE). Her work can be found in public and private collections of the City of Helsinki managed by the Helsinki Art Museum and The Åland Art Museum.

She received a Culture Award from the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland in 2019 and the Anna-Lena Dreijer Art Fund on The Åland Islands in 2022. In 2024, she was a recipient of the Finnish Institute in the UK & Ireland X Acme London Residency and the Stina Krook Foundation portfolio residency program ‘PortRe’ held in Copenhagen in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark.

She is currently working on a new body of work that will be exhibited at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki from the fall of 2025 to the spring of 2026.