About me
Nimah Gobir is an artist and educator based in Oakland, California. Nimah Gobir makes paintings about family, memory, and Black identity. She works from stories she’s heard and photos her family has kept, layering them with household textiles, embroidery, and expressive brushwork.
She is interested in how memory lives in objects, gestures, and rooms. Through portraits of her sister and herself getting their hair braided, or her parents seated on a hand-me-down couch, she tells stories that are both deeply specific and widely shared.
Gobir completed her undergraduate studies at Chapman University with a B.F.A. in Studio Art and B.A. in Peace Studies. She has an M.Ed from Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus in Arts in Education. In 2020, she completed a fellowship with Emerging Artist Professionals SF-Bay Area. She has shown work at the Museum of the African Diaspora, SOMArts, The Growlery, Root Division where she was awarded the Blau-Gold Studio/Teaching fellowship. She is represented by Johansson Projects.
