Nabil Rahman is an artist and poet. Born in Sylhet, Bangladesh, he grew up in New York City and now lives in Georgia, USA.

He received an MA at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism in 2012 and a B.A. in Creative Writing at Herbert H. Lehman College (City University of New York) 2010. His exhibitions include Water Bodies, Studio 6/6, Dhaka (2020), Dhaka Art Summit (2020, 2018), XT><LX, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila (2018), You Can’t Cross the Ocean Merely by Staring at the Waves, Krinzinger Gallery (2016), Raster, Experimenter Gallery (2016), It Hung Over Us Like an Anvil, Longitude Latitude 6 (2015)

He attended the Uronto Art Residency Program in 2019 and Bellas Artes Projects in Bataan, the Philippines, in 2017 and 2018. In 2020, he also undertook an artist residency at Weekend House, designed by the renowned architect Marina Tabassum. Additionally, he participated in the workshop Space for Encounters – Meetings, Happenings and Inputs in Art Mediation at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, organized by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Rahman worked as a freelance journalist for Al Jazeera America, ProPublica, TIME, Open City magazine, Rogue magazine, Vogue India, and has worked as an editor for CBS News, multimedia producer for National Geographic and others. He was the producer for the radio show ‘Where I’m From’. He taught English at Herbert H. Lehman High School in the Bronx, NY.

He curated the photography exhibition, ‘Eyes on Bangladesh’, New York in 2014. In Dhaka, he worked for Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography and Bengal Arts Programme.