This is a portrait of Naheed Nenshi.

After the “50 Years of Migration” exhibition, a crowdsourced community project that toured across Canada after debuting at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, I recycled some of the panels into a series of painted portraits of Canadian Ismaili Muslims called “Pluralist Portraits.”

This portrait of Naheed Nenshi – 36 x 66 inches – features remixed images from his political career on top of panels from this project. Special thanks to Noordin Karmali for arranging to transport the panels to me after the cross-country tour, to the entire team who contributed to and implemented the project, and to my parents who immigrated to Canada in the 1970s for a better life.