Abdi Osman is a Somali Canadian multidisciplinary artist based between Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, whose work focuses on questions of Black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim, queer and trans identities. Osman’s practice has been concerned with representing and complicating the gaps evident in hegemonic or normative representations of Black/African peoples to unsettle and broaden ideas about what Blackness is, was, and can be. He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions, biennale, festivals, screenings, and programs across North America and internationally. His writing on art has appeared in BlackFlash, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, PUBLIC Journal, Transitions, Journal on Images and Culture, among other publications. Osman is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Art at SUNY Buffalo.