Umbereen Inayet is a National Award Winning, TEDx Speaker, Curator, Artistic Director & Producer. With a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto and an Undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Umbereen’s personal style is to bridge pop culture with contemporary art, using her roots in anthropology, culture, psychology and social work to inform her artistic producing practice.

 Great granddaughter of Hafeez Jalandhari, the infamous poet who wrote the lyrics of the National Anthem of Pakistan, Umbereen is a visual storyteller and playwright who has led the creative visioning and event execution for major City of Toronto events; recently creating the new Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Heritage Award winning anti-colonial artistic intervention based platform, Awakenings for Toronto History Museums as a cultural recovery and response to 2020.

 Umbereen has worked as an Artistic Producer and Curator for Nuit Blanche Toronto one of the largest free contemporary art events in North America with over 1.2 million in attendance for over a decade working on projects with multidisciplinary artists, curators and studios including Ai Weiwei, Bill Viola, John Akomfrah, Director X, Drake, Floria Sigismondi, Philip Beesley, HXOUSE, Sean Brown, Daniel Arsham, Charlotte Day Wilson, eL Seed & JR. 

Umbereen recently curated the first public art exhibition for Swizz Beatz for the Jeddah Art Promenade in Saudi Arabia featuring Janet Echelman, Kwest, Javid JAH & DRIFT.