Summary

Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi is an artist, designer and organiser of Samoan and Iranian descent. They’re interested in communities as vessels, relational dynamics, and nuanced cultural transmissions. Through sound, sight and space, they distil lived experiences, mark contemporary rituals, and offer universal deviations.

Education

2013 • Bachelor of Digital Media (Fine Art & Graphic Design major), Queensland College of Art, Gold Coast, QLD

Group Exhibitions

2024 • Mode Festival Arts Programme, Cockatoo Island/Wareamah, NSW
2024 • Bridging, Driver ARI, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2022 • Variations 01, Echo & Bounce, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2022 • Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2022 • A Clearing in the Forest (in collaboration with Leuli Eshraghi), Tate Modern, London
2022 • Mode Festival Arts Programme, Mode Festival, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
2022 • Supercut Project 4, Outerspace, Online
2021 • Light Workers, The Third Quarter, Little Street Studio, Brisbane

Performances (Selected)

2024 • RISING : Crip Rave Theory, The Substation, Newport, VIC
2024 • Push (w/ Quincy Raw), Vacant Assembly, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2024 • ADA x DRONE, World Science Festival Brisbane, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2023 • DRONE Fest, KEPK, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2023 • Palimpsest Scoring, Cement Fondu, Eora Nation, NSW
2018 • Why Listen To Plants? (as Viscous), Liquid Architecture, Gold Coast, QLD

Commissions (Selected)

2025 • Sound work for Keemon Williams' Blow and Go, as part of Platform 2025, Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane
2023 • Sound work for Léuli Eshrāghi's tagata a nu'u po'o tagata a fagu'u, as part of 4+3=1: THERE ARE STORIES TO BE FORGED FOR COMMON DENOMINATORS TO COME FORTH AND SOCIAL BALANCE TO BE RESTORED, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin

Curatorial

2024 • Friction, Echo & Bounce, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2023 • Unusual Vessels, Echo & Bounce, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2022 • Variations 01, Echo & Bounce, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2021 • Gentle State, The Station, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD

Public Programs (Selected)

2024 • Friction, Echo & Bounce, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2024 • Reflective Noise w/ Julia Beiers & Beetle Miyela, Outer Space, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2024 • Tectonic Noise w/ Dean Ansell & Connor Andree-Evarts, Outer Space, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
2024 • Speculative Noise w/ mekema, cyberBanshee + Unregistered Master Builder, Outer Space, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD

Residencies

2024 • Culture Lab, Arts House, Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
2024 • Asia Pacific Performance Lab, Performance Space, Bundanon, NSW

Publications

2021 • Platypus ISSUE 02: SALTY (in collaboration with William Hickman as Viscous)
2021 • QCA Creative Careers, Griffith University

Arts Industry Positions

2024 • Marketing Officer, Outer Space, Meanjin, QLD
2021–2024 • Creative Director, Echo & Bounce, Meanjin, QLD