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Hamza Ashraf is a Queer Pakistani artist, writer, and documentary storyteller based in Leeds. Working across photography, poetry, moving image and installation, his practice explores the intersections of shame, worship, intimacy, love and queer identity through deeply personal and emotionally charged visual storytelling.

His current work often draws from his own lived experiences, combining archival materials, journal entries and scripted re-enactments to confront what it means to survive, to desire, and to perform the self. Ashraf’s process is one of excavation; unearthing the grief, tenderness and contradiction that come with being seen.

From 2022, Ashraf was formerly co-founder and programme producer of DNI Collective, an art collective centring diasporic voices in the North of England, and since 2023 has moved forward to independent curatorial projects.

Ashraf is now currently a studio holder at SERF, an artist-led studio & project space in Leeds.





Education
Leeds Arts University
(BA) Hons Filmmaking
2020-2023

Leeds Arts University
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
2019-2020





Solo Shows
2025
We Fear No God, But Ourselves
Village Books
Leeds, UK





Group Shows
2025 (Upcoming)
Militia
Stretford Mall
Manchester, UK
(Exhibiting Artist)

2025 (Currently)
Fotographia Europea Festival 2025
Reggio Emilia, Italy
(Exhibiting Artist)


2025
Of Faith & Fractures
SERF Gallery
Leeds, UK
(Curator & Exhibiting Artist)


2024
MSMSw/ UFC01
SERF Gallery
Leeds, UK
(Exhibiting Artist)


2024
An Extrosepctive Introspection
n/oM
Manchester, UK
(Exhibiting Artist)


2024
Erotic Love (with AZUCAR Creative Space)
Light A Box
Leeds, UK
(Exhibiting Artist)


2024
Emerging Filmmakers: Screen Breakdowns
Good Shepherd Studios
London, UK
(Exhibiting Artist)


2023
In Our Defence: Re-framing Post-Colonial Grounds & Dilettantes (with DNI Collective)
Headrow House
Leeds, UK
(Co-Curator & Exhibiting Artist)


2022
The Personal, Meta-Fictional & The Self-Referential (with DNI Collective)
Headrow House
Leeds, UK
(Co-Curator & Exhibiting Artist)





Press


Residencies
SERF Gallery
Studio Holder
2024- Present

Dock Street Workshops (in partnership with Leeds Arts University’s Alumni Funded Studio Space Scheme)
Studio Holder
2023-2024