EDUCATION
2016 BFA Ceramics, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
2014 Dip. Ceramics, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
RESIDENCIES
2016 – 2019 Harbourfront Centre Craft & Design Studio: Ceramics, Toronto, ON
AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 Chalmers Professional Development Grant, Toronto, ON
2021 Creativity Everything Fellowship, Toronto, ON
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2021 Window Exhibition, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
2020 SMASH, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON (Covid-19 Cancellation)
2019 SuburbArabia, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
2018 Home Mark, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2016 Weight of Apology, Port Loggia, Halifax, NS
Same Difference, Architecture49, Halifax, NS
Group
Group
2023 Revive, Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN (Upcoming)
2022 Thee Architects, Saratoga Clay Arts Centre, Schuylerville, NY
Belonging, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Disruption, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2021 Disruption, NCECA, Cincinnati, OH (Virtual)
Alternate Endings III: Contemporary Ceramic Bookends, NCECA, Cincinnati, OH (Virtual)
2020 Sad Reflections, Stackt Market, Toronto, ON
2019 Reproductive Justice is for Everyone, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Queeramics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
I Have Been There, Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Wet, Squirrel Haus Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Ferment, Minneapolis College, Minneapolis, MN
2018 (mus)interpreted, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
Inheritance, Ori Gallery, Portland, OR
(in)Visible, Braddock Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Matter, Urbanspace Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Vanish, Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, NS
Collecting Personal Archives, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
Whereabouts, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
First/50 Alumni Exhibition, Sheridan Gallery, Oakville, ON
2016 (mus)interpreted, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, ON
TEACHING
Workshops
2021 Demonstration, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
2020 Clay Date, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON (Online)
Expressive Explorations in Clay, Scarborough Arts, Toronto, ON (Online)
2018 Workshop, Living School of Art, Portland, OR
2017 High school Student Workshops, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
Classes
Sept 2021 - Present Pottery Instructor, Clay Space, Toronto, ON
2019 – 2020 Pottery Instructor, clayArt Studios, Toronto, ON
2018 – 2019 Pottery Instructor, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2016 – 2018 Pottery Instructor and Technician, Markham Museum, Markham, ON
JURY
2021 Craft Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON
2019 Annual Juried Exhibition, Scarborough Arts, Toronto, ON
COMMISSIONS
2022 Award - Toronto Arab Film Festival
2021 Custom Mugs – Vivian Lai Realty
2020 First Home Project - Daniels Corporation
2016 Yasmine (Film) - Prop Fabrication, Director Raghed Charabaty
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Grief, Tenderness, and Kinship: The Work of Habiba El-Sayed, Sanaa Humayun, BlackFlash Magazine
2021 Craft is Political, Heidi Mackenzie, Bloomsbury Press
2020 Considering Performance: In Conversation with Habiba El-Sayed, M.C Baumstark, Fusion Magazine (Spring 2020)
2020 Disrupting the Canon, Studio Potter Magazine (March)
2020 A Clay Date with Habiba El-Sayed at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto Guardian
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2022 Artist Talk - Our Scarborough, SCRO, Toronto, ON (Upcoming)
Artist Talk - In the Kiln Room, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (Online)
2021 Artist Talk , Macalester College (Online)
Artist Talk – St. Olaf College (Online)
Panel – Disruption, NCECA 2021 (Online)
2020 Artist Talk – New York University (Online)
In Conversation with Dr. Fahmida Suleman, Royal Ontario Museum (Online)
Artist Talk – Egyptian Heritage Month, Nile Association (Online)
2019 Artist Talk – Hamilton Potters Guild, Hamilton, ON
Panel – Logistics: How to, Ethics and Sustainability, Cross Pollination NCECA Pre- conference, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Artist Talk – The Living School of Art, Portland, OR
Artist Talk – Inheritance, Ori Gallery, Portland, OR
Panel – The Art of Otherness, NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA
Ideas Forum on Matter, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON