Nadia Faragaab is a multidisciplinary Somali Australian artist and community advocate whose work lives between worlds. Through mixed media, installations, and performance, she weaves stories of identity, resilience, and transformation, exploring the threads that connect the past to the present. Drawing inspiration from her rich cultural heritage and experiences of migration, Nadia’s art invites reflection on belonging, place, and the power of change.  

Her premier solo exhibition Kronologies marked her as one of the first Somali Australian to exhibit in Australia. Since this time, Nadia’s groundbreaking visual and performance art has continued to explore her Somali-Australian identity in the contemporary globalised setting. 

A DJ and theatre-maker, Nadia believes art should be accessible to all. She collaborates with schools, community groups, women’s organisations, and organisations supporting autistic individuals in Melbourne to ensure that young people, women, and neurodivergent individuals, especially those on the fringes, can be better served and explore art, culture, and the joy of creative self-expression.