Naeem Mohaiemen

(b.1969, London, lives and works in Dhaka and New York)

Naeem Mohaiemen explores histories of the international left, and the contradictions of borders, wars, and belonging in South Asia, through essays, photography, and film (shobak.org). Since 2006, he has worked on The Young Man Was, a history of the 1970s ultra-left. Project themes have been described as "not yet disillusioned fully with the capacity of human society" (Vijay Prashad, Take on Art).

His work has been shown at Experimenter, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka Gallery Chitrak, Frieze Art Fair, and Sharjah Biennial, and appeared in Granta, Rethinking Marxism, Arab Studies Journal, and Secret Identities: Asian Superhero Comics. Mohaiemen is a critic of the potentially racist aspects of a hegemonic Bengali nationalism, and was editor of Between ashes and hope: Chittagong Hill Tracts in the blind spot of Bangladesh nationalism (DP/MJF). He is currently a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Columbia University.