About Kamee Abrahamian

Kamee arrives in the world today as an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, producer, performer, educator, creative strategist, community organizer, caregiver, queerdo, waitress, and witch. They were born to an Armenian family displaced from the SWANA region and grew up in an immigrant suburb of Toronto. Their work summons ancestral reclamation, diasporic futurism, and collective justice, and their creative practice is rooted in collaborative ethics and oriented towards generative, visionary world-building.

Kamee holds a BFA/BA in film and political science (Concordia University), an MA in expressive art therapy (European Graduate Institute), and an MA/PhD in Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco Psychologies (Pacifica Graduate Institute). Their doctoral research explored legacies of relational ontologies and ethics of care by diasporic-SWANA women and queers. Kamee has created, produced, toured, and presented a vast body of work including narrative & documentary film, visual & media art, staged & immersive performances, exhibitions, magazines, anthologies, workshops, festivals, advocacy campaigns, and podcasts. Their projects have been supported by local and national funding bodies across Canada, USA and Armenia. They’re a Pushcart nominated writer, a Lambda-awarded playwright, a Stowe Story Lab Finalist and an alumni resident at VONA, Banff Center for Arts, TIFF Director’s Lab, and DocX (Duke University). The documentaries they’ve worked on with Oolik Productions have been supported by Sundance, Visions du Réel, HotDocs, and Catapult. Their short film Transmission (2019) – the first known Armenian science fiction film – premiered at BFI FLARE, and their documentary Symptom (2024) premiered at the SF Doc Fest. 

If it seems like Kamee has a lot of irons in the fire – it’s because they know that building new worlds means bringing all the heat – and they know it’s work best done in community. They co-founded and often work through Cazimi Studios – a collaborative studio formed with Emily Mkrtichian and Mara Tatevosian, and Common Grounds PEC – an arts and community organization that works across multiple creative disciplines.

Most recently, Kamee received the 2025 Creative Capital Award, published a children’s book (The Brighter I Shine) and organized a multi-day arts program for a gathering of 4000 global-south feminist activists in Bangkok (AWID Forum 2024). At the moment, they are writing a graphic novel based on their experiences as a new, queer, neuro-spicy mother called Queer Motherhood is Fucking Magic. As part of their visual art and curatorial practice, they’re touring a mixed-media collection Flesh, Immemorial, and also organizing an anthology of multimedia and literary works that explore the speculative and visionary imaginaries of parents and caregivers from the SWANA region (Portals). For the screen, they are developing a limited series (Ensouled) and two feature films: an adaptation of William Saroyan’s work (The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse) and a political thriller (We Are Our Mountains). 

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