Naeem Mohaiemen (shobak.org) is a writer and artist working in Dhaka and New York. He uses text, photography and video to explore histories of the international left and utopia-dystopia slippage. Projects have shown at Gallery Chitrak (Dhaka), Experimenter (Kolkata), Third Line (Dubai), Queens Museum of Art (New York), Mufathalle (Munich), Shedhalle (Zurich), Finnish Museum of Photography, Whitney Biennial (Visible Collective group project, "Wrong Gallery'), etc. 

Naeem also works on activist projects in Bangladesh. He writes the chapter on religious and ethnic minorities in the Ain Salish Kendro Annual Human Rights report (askbd.org) and the Daily Star newspaper (thedailystar.net). Working between two countries, this work explores contradictions between Bengalis in marginal migrant status in Northern countries, and majoritarian (and authoritarian) status inside Bangladesh. As part of this work, the film "Muslims or Heretics: My Camera Can Lie" was screened for an ancillary meeting of EU Human Rights Commission at the UK House of Lords. 

His essays include "Everybody Wants To Be Singapore" (Carlos Motta’s La Buena Vida/Democracy, 08), "AdMan Blues" (Indian Highway, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, UK. 08), "Fear of Muslim Planet: Hip Hop & Islam" (Sound Unbound, MIT Press, Paul Miller ed. 08), "Mujtaba Ali: Amphibian Man" (Manifesta 7, European Biennial, Rana Dasgupta ed., Trentino. 08), "These Guys Are Artists & Who Gives A Shit" (Jamini journal, Dhaka. 07), "Beirut, Silver Porsche Illusion" (Men of the Global South, Zed Books. 06), "Why Mahmud Can’t Be a Pilot" (Nobody Passes, Seal Press. 06), "Enigma of Transit" (The Book of Bangladeshi Fiction. 06), the book "Collectives in Atomised Time" (with Doug Ashford, Idensitat Press. 09), and comic "No Exit" (with Glenn Urieta, Secret Identities: Asian Superhero Comics, New Press, 09).

Naeem studied Economics and History, and was a Watson Fellow on an oral history of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.