Jamilah Sabur (b. 1987, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Based in Miami, she explores the entanglements of geology, labor, language, and memory, often drawing on Caribbean histories, Black Atlantic geographies, and the lived experience of migration and displacement.
Sabur received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Her work frequently engages archival research and embodied performance to consider how colonialism, capitalism, and climate shape landscapes and subjectivities, and she has developed projects that reflect an ongoing interest in climate resilience and the politics of place.
I write about Jamilah Sabur alongside Juana Valdés and Deborah Jack as artists who reinterpret the Caribbean as a site of ecological memory and resistance in a recent article on Contemporary& Latina HERE