Khadija Baker is a Montreal-based, multidisciplinary artist of Kurdish-Syrian descent (born 1973 in Amuda, Syria). Baker immigrated to Canada from Syria in 2001; she completed her MFA studies at Concordia University 2012. She is a core member of the Centre for Oral History & Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University. Her installations investigate social and political themes centered on the uncertainty of home as it relates to persecution, identity, displacement, and memory. As a witness to traumatic events, unsettled feelings of home are a part of her experience. Her multidisciplinary installations often combine textiles, sculpture, performance, sound and video, and involve participative storytelling and performance to create active spaces for greater understanding. Baker continues her research creation at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) at Concordia University. She was awarded Rewilding Arts Prize by David Suzuki Foundation and Rewilding Magazine. Most recently she was awarded Miriam Aaron Roland Family Scholarship for her research creation at Concordia University.

Artiste adisciplinaire et horticultrice, je vis à Tio’tiake (Montréal) et travail saisonnièrement à Kchi Nikitawtegwak (Sherbrooke) d’où je suis originaire. J’ai obtenu un baccalauréat en arts visuels et médiatiques à l’UQAM en 2022 et je poursuis actuellement dans le même établissement une maîtrise en arts visuels et médiatiques à l’UQAM.

I am a fully self-accepted bacterhuman, bioartist (BFA, Concordia University, Montreal, MFA University of Windsor, CA), and scientist (Ph.D. in plant science, UPMC, Paris, FR) named Nathalie Dubois Calero, and my works are a feminist act of reconciliation with my non (or too much?) human components. Microbes are the media I use in workshops, performances, videos, and object-making. My recent project, BacterHuman, focuses on the cutaneous microbiota (all the microorganisms living on and inside the skin) and the multifaceted relationships we have with it. This work includes Microidentidad (workshops and exhibition, ICA, Bacalar, Q.R., Mexico, 2020) Name:Nathalie Species: HomoBacter Insipiens (TTT Vienna, 2020 online), Queer and Biophilic Approach of the Cutaneous Microbiome (online workshop, ISEA, 2021), We are planets (hiflex workshop, HTLMlles festival, 2021), and Bodies of water about our microbiotal relationship with water (exhibition and video at Leamington Art Centre (LAC), Ontario, Canada, 2022) and Bacterhuman in son et lumiere (LAC, 2023, and TTT, Malta 2023). I have been invited to participate in the FEMeeting Sisterlabs panels and events in Toronto (March 23-28, 2024), where I performed BacterHuman and, with Cecilia Vilca, Mother Virus, a performative game. I am also collaborating with Ada Gogova (How to change wine in water?). I am a member of the Incubator Art Lab at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.