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= Zainub Verjee = Zainub Verjee is a video artist, curator, writer and arts administrator. "As a media artist Verjee locates her practice in the politics of identity, culture and technology." [better citation needed!] Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Biennale. In 1989 Verjee cofounded In Visible Colours with Lorraine Chan of the NFB, an international film and video festival and symposium featuring the work of women of colour. More recently, she has been active as an arts administrator

Born in Nairobi in 1956, Verjee is a fourth generation Kenyan. Verjee moved to Canada in the 1970s to study economics at Simon Fraser University.

Selected Exhibitions

 * 1993, Racy-Sexy: Race, Culture and Sexuality, Centre A, Vancouver.
 * 1994, New Canadian Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
 * 1995, TransCulture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
 * 1997, Traversing Territory, Part II: Road Movies in a Post-Colonial Landscape, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR.
 * 1997, Tracing Cultures III, Ismaili Jamatkhana and Centre, Burnaby, BC.

"One of the defining legacies in Verjee’s career is In Visible Colours (IVC), an international festival in Vancouver dedicated to film and video by women of colour that she co-founded, with Lorraine Chan, in 1989. A landmark event of its time, IVC assembled works by then-emerging artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Gurinder Chadha, Alanis Obomsawin, Merata Mita and Mona Hatoum. IVC and the issues it foregrounded is one reason why, from Verjee’s perspective, the identity politics of today is in large part a return to a conversation that started in the 1980s."

In 1993 Verjee presented Ecoute s'il pleut (Listen if it's Raining), a French/English video poem to allow the viewer to experience the fullness of silence.

Art Administration

 * January 15, 2007 - ? Director, Office of the Arts, City of Mississauga.
 * "She has been on various art boards, was the Director at the Western Front and is currently the Media Arts Officer at the Canada Council."
 * Verjee also helped build the international profile of the Western Front throughout the 1990s.