Rushdi Anwar is a Kurdish–Australian artist born in Halabja, Kurdistan–Iraq. His multidisciplinary practice spans installation, sculpture, painting, photography, video, and archival materials, exploring memory, displacement, and the enduring legacies of colonialism. His work has been exhibited internationally at Sharjah Biennial 15, Sainsbury Centre-UK, Bangkok Art Biennale, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Artes Mundi 10 (National Museum Cardiff), and The National 2019 (Art Gallery of New South Wales). He holds a PhD from RMIT University and is a Senior Lecturer at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.

Photo by Nitipong Karndee/The 101 World.