Artist Bio

Sabrin Nur is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar who is based in Minneapolis. Born in Kenya and hailing from the Land of the Poets in the Horn of Africa, Sabrin works across performance, film, poetry, ceramics, and music to explore the intersections of ancestry, spirituality, and liberation. Rooted in Somali and Yemeni lineages, their work weaves together oral tradition, mysticism, and memory, bridging the voices of nomads, mystics, and merchants with those of contemporary diasporic communities. 

Their play “Your Hello To My Goodbye” received three awards at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and they’ve performed music across various stages such as The Cedar Cultural Centre, Minnesota Arboretum, Somali Summer Festival, and Raspberry Island. Their work embodies ritual and storytelling as acts of remembrance and resistance. Through projects like Poetry In Nature and Weathering Together, Sabrin has cultivated spaces for communal healing and ecological reflection.

Fluent in Somali, Swahili, and English, Sabrin’s sonic and visual works are deeply tied to language, rhythm, and ancestral cosmology. They are currently collaborating with the Bell Museum as the lead researcher and presenter for "Dayax Iyo Dirir: Somali Star Wisdom," premiering at the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium. 

Guided by the belief that “the answers to our future lie in the wisdom of our past,” Sabrin’s practice seeks to retrace, reclaim, and revive traditions of passing down esoteric wisdom through various practices.