Salma Zulfiqar | Birmingham Rep

Salma Zulfiqar is an Artist and Human Rights Activist. She is also the Creative Director of ARTconnects. She was voted as one of the most influential women to hail from Birmingham, U.K with her work featured in the book: Women Who Dared To Dream. In 2019 she was awarded the National Rising Star Diversity Award powered by the Sunday Times, in 2020 she was appointed a UNESCO affiliate Artist, in 2021 ARTconnects was awarded The U.K Prime Minister’s Points of Light for exceptional service . Whilst in 2023, Salma also received the prestigious British Citizen Award, dubbed the ‘People’s Honour Award’, at the Palace of Westminster for her exceptional contribution to the arts. Salma is a visual artist focussing on migration, climate change and refugees and has exhibited her work during the Venice Biennale in Italy, Sicilly and in London, Paris, Geneva, Greece, Dubai and Solihull, Birmingham U.K.