Zainub Verjee has over four decades built a formidable reputation as an artist, writer, critic, cultural administrator and public intellectual. Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts, Third Cinema and the post-Bandung decolonization, Tactical Video Movement, Zainub has been embedded in the early years of Vancouver’s photo-conceptualism movement as well as history of women’s labour in British Columbia. An internationalist, she co-founded the critically acclaimed In Visible Colours, a foundational film festival in Canada. In 1992, she was awarded National Film Board Fellowship as part of New Initiatives in Film for women of colour and aboriginal women. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Biennale, and she has contributed to international instruments of culture such as Status of the Artist and Cultural Diversity. In February 2020 Verjee was awarded the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “outstanding contribution to the arts."