Yasmine Kasem
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Yasmine Kasem Kasem’s art focuses on the precariousness within layers of identity and what it is to be Egyptian-American, Muslim and Queer. Yasmine received her MFA in Visual Arts from UCSD. Exhibiting regionally and nationally, her 2018 exhibition Mwasah was featured at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA. Kasem completed a residency at the 1805 Gallery in San Diego in 2019, accompanied by a solo show, Every fragment; a Prayer. Kasem's work is currently on view at San Diego Art Institutes winter/spring 2020 exhibition Illumination: 21st Century Interactions with Art + Science + Technology.
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