Solo Exhibitions

• Summer 2024: Progression VR experience, AANM, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• Winter 2022 : Nuances, Maison de la Culture Rivière des Prairies, QC

• Spring 2022 : Orchestra, Arts Assembly, Vancouver, BC

• Winter 2021 : The Cost of Entry is a Heartbeat, Lobe Studio, Vancouver, BC

• Spring 2021 : Progression, Ada X, Montréal, QC

• Winter 2020: The Cost of Entry is a Heartbeat, Spatial Sound Institute, Budapest, Hungary

• October 2012 : Portraits of Potential, La Cenne, Montréal, QC 

• February 2012 : We are Still Here, Asni Gallery: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

 

Group Exhibitions

• Winter 2024 : Bed Life, Galérie UQAM, Montréal, QC

• Fall 2024 : Guest Curator, Tangled Art and Disability, Toronto, ON

• Summer 2023: Tea leaves, Project Space Banff Centre, Banff, AB

• Winter 2023 : Allo Ada, Ada X, Montréal, QC

• Spring  2022 : Making Peace, Making Waves, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• Spring 2022 : Audio description in the making, AIM Lab, Montréal, QC

• Summer 2021 : Will you Pass the Salt ? Fondation Phi, Montréal, QC

• Winter 2018 : Vibrations, 4th Space Gallery, Montreal, QC

• Fall 2018 : Flourishing, Tangled Art and Disability, Toronto, ON

• Winter 2012 : Meeting Here, GIZ German House: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

• February 2011 : Yellow Experience, National Theatre Gallery: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

• January  2011 : Neutral Art Xperience, National Theatre Gallery: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

Public and Participatory Art Projects

• Summer 2023 : The Space in Between, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON

• Winter/Spring 2023 :  Tenderness Festival, Caravansérail, Rimouski, QC 

• Winter 2022 : Sensory Glisk, Collaboration with Greer Pester, Montréal, QC

• Summer 2018 : Moms of Montreal, Independent Project, Montréal, QC

• 2014-2017 : Konbit Anba Soley, Independent documentary project, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 

• Spring 2014 : My Montreal, our Values, Independent project, Montréal, QC

 

Grants and Awards

• Canada Council for the Arts : Composite (2022-2024), Explorer et créer (2021, 2019), Cultivate (2016) 

• Montreal Arts Council : Soutien aux artistes en situation de handicap (2022)

• Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec: Circulation des oeuvres hors du Québec (2022), Développement professionnel (2020), Mesure d'aide à la création et au développement de contenus culturels numériques originaux (2016)

• British Council, Farnham Maltings, Canada Council for the Arts : New Conversations (2021)

• Phi Foundation: Production Residency Laureate(2021)

• SSHRC: CGS-M (2019)

• Freda L. Paltiel award for immigrant and minority women’s health (2019) 

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Education

• Master’s in Social Work, McGill University: Montréal, QC (2018-2020) 

• Graduate Diploma in Journalism: Montreal, QC (2013-2014)

• BA Mass Communication and Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (2004-2008)

 

Publications

• Ada X: Slow Tech (2023)

• Canadian Theatre Review: Connecting the Space between Us: An Interview with Multisensory Artist Salima Punjani (2022)

• Spatial Sound Institute: Pandemic Fatigue, Resocialization and Collective Health: Salima Punjani on Listening and Sensing Foreignness (2021) 

• Tangled Art and Disability: Flourishing (2018) 

 

Press

• Immerse News Embodiment as an Entry Point — At the Intersections of Art, Tech & Care (2023)

• CScience: IA, art et accessibilité : rencontre avec l’artiste Salima Punjani (2022)

• La Source: L’art au service de la réceptivité sensorielle et de la convergence sociale (2022)

• Radio Canada: Dessine moi un dimanche – 30 janvier – rapport culture (2022)

• Vie des Arts: An Artistic Examination of Medical Records: A Critic of Biopower in the Work of Salima Punjani and Carolyn Lazard (2021)

• CBC NXNW: The Cost of entry Is a Heartbeat comes to Vancouver (2021)

• Arts Everywhere: Flourishing Roundtable (2019)

• McGill Tribune: Community Art and Social Justice, A conversation (2019)

• CBC Montreal, Our Montreal: Moms of Montreal television Interview (2018)

• CBC Arts: Flourishing article (2018)

• CBC Montreal, Daybreak: Konbit Anba Soley documentary release radio interview (2018)

• McGill Tribune: Art Therapy as a form of self-care (2018)

• Global News: Tricycle Community Story Television Interview (2017) 

• CULT MTL: A love letter to Montreal Article (2017) 

• CJAD: A love letter to Montreal Radio interview (2017) 

• McGill Daily: Diversity in Discussion (2015)

• STV Glasgow: Launch of Glasgow Clyde Radio Television interview (2015) 

• Breakfast Television Montreal: My Montreal, Our Values television interview (2014)

• Concordia News: Diversity in Harmony - My Montreal, Our Values (2014)

• Homerun CBC Montreal: My Montreal, Our Values radio interview (2014)

• Radio Centre Ville: My Montreal, Our Values (2014)

• Addis Rumble: We are Still Here: A Photographic Portrait of a Neighbourhood in Arat Kilo (2012)

• Zoma Magazine: GIZ Exhibition review (2012)

Breakaway CBC Quebec City: Ethiopian Colours – Photography exhibition radio interview (2010)