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Nayab Noor Ikram (b.1992, Mariehamn) is a photographer and visual artist of Pakistani diaspora from the Åland Islands, based in Turku. Ikram works with concepts dealing with the feeling of in-betweenship, cultural identity and the collective memory. She explores the concepts using symbols, rituals and abstract forms of expressions through photography, perfor- mance and installations.

Ikram graduated with a Bachelor of Culture and Arts degree in 2015, majoring in photography, from Novia University of Applied Sciences in Jakobstad, Finland. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited at Gerðarsafn, (IS, 2022), The Åland Islands Art Museum (AX, 2022), The Mänttä Art Festival (FI, 2021), Västerås konstmuseum (SE, 2020- 2021) and The European Parliament (BE, 2020). In 2019 she was awarded with a culture award from the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.