The Girl with the Bad Allergies, 2026
Closed Stacks, 2025
We Spent Our Lives Together, Accidentally, 2025
She Carried You, 2025
My Mother’s Bread, 2024
Excuse Us, 2024
Handle, 2024
To Have and To Hold, 2024
Right Through Me (Safi), 2024
Sift, Sift, Sift, Strain, 2024
Price Tags, 2024
And They Will Write Their Names on Their Bodies, 2024
What Are You Willing To Let Go Of?, 2023
Made By, 2023
All Because of You, Us, 2023
Hand Chair, 2023
Vanity, 2023
In All Her Glory, 2022
MOLT, 2022
Remnant, 2022
Drip, 2021
CV
Statement/Contact
Lives in Columbus, OH
EDUCATION
2024 BFA, Sculpture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2026 BS, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Radiologic Sciences and Therapy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (expected May 2026)
2022 AAS, Medical Imaging, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH
AWARDS/GRANTS
2025 Greater Columbus Arts Council, Funds for Artists, Columbus, OH
2024 Greater Columbus Arts Council, Funds for Artists, Columbus, OH
2023 Greater Columbus Arts Council, Funds for Artists, Columbus, OH
2021–2024 Gilmore Scholarship,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Did you find them?, Clean Space Gallery,
Sherman Studio Art Center, Columbus OH
2023 All Because of You, Us, Hopkins Hall Gallery,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Excuse Us, Wild Goose Creative Columbus, OH
(with Hannah Buss)
2023 What Are You Willing to Let Go of?,
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
(with Nina Wells)
2022 MOLT, WIT Gallery, Columbus, OH
(with Praise Godswill)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Bad Allergies, 2485 Deming Avenue Apt. 3, Columbus, OH
2025 Survey #25, SHED, Cleveland, OH
2025 Vessels in Red, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2025 Artist Commune, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2024 Make-believe Love, Escolar (cur. George Rush), Santa Rosa, CA
2024 BFA Senior Projects Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2024 National Poetry Month Exhibition, WIT Gallery, Columbus OH
2023 Baby We Got This Runway Show, Sherman Studio Art Center, Columbus, OH
2023 Habitable Zone, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH
2022 Mind, Body, Spirit, & Sooouuul, Streetlight Guild, Columbus, OH
CURATORIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 Bad Allergies, 2485 Deming Avenue Apt. 3, Columbus, OH
(with Andrew Mehall)
2023–2025 Founder and Organizer, ART TALK, Columbus, OH
Independent monthly critique and artist talk series
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 Instructor, Whetstone Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2024 Studio Glass Intern, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ
2024 Member, Glass Artists for Palestine, artist collective
2023–2024 Studio Intern, Sherman Studio Art Center, Columbus, OH
2023–2024 Student Ambassador, Department of Art,
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
PUBLICATIONS
2025 “Passage”, 266 Magazine, Issue 2, Columbus, OH
2025 Artist Commune Journal, Issue 1, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2024 “Artist Spotlight: Elaff Houmsse,”
BFA Senior Projects Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2023 “Artist Interview: Elaff Houmsse”, All Because of You, Us,
Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2023 “Artist Interview Elaff Houmsse”, All Because of You, Us,
YouTube Video, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2022 “Ep 21: Elaff Houmsse”, interview,
Anoid TV Podcast, Columbus, OH
WORKSHOPS
2023 Shared Space, public workshop,
All Because of You, Us, Columbus, OH, July 15
MEDIA
2023 Syria-Turkey Earthquake Relief Collaboration, Warithat
2022 International Print Exchange, 9INHANDPRESS
2019 Cover Illustration, The Oasis Magazine
LANGUAGES
English (fluent)
Arabic (fluent)