Agartuu Inor (b.200?, Liberated Oromia) is an Oromo artist.
Her interdisciplinary practice spans beadwork, sculpture, and computational aesthetics, creating spaces for learning and collective care. Drawing from Islamic principles and East African visual and architectural traditions, her work honors Afro-Indigenous memory while engaging speculative and spiritual futures.She is also an archivist and the founder of Barakah Library, a free people’s library dedicated to preserving Afro-Indigenous imaginaries and circulating resistance literature. This project reflects her belief that knowledge is both a sacred inheritance and a shared resource for liberation.
Agartuu can be reached via email or @agartuu.io on Instagram.
Upcoming Shows
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SEPTEMBER 6 - OCTOBER 11
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Selected Works
A Prayer for Marking Time, 2025.
A beaded rug for counting tasbeeh and remembering how to shape time, asking questions about monument and memorial. This piece is part of a larger body of beadwork made to remember the Oromo martyrs of the 2020 Haacaaluu Protests, many of which were young children and teenagers who went out into the streets to mourn the death of their favorite artist.
Built with glass seed beads and Fireline thread.
Ode to Pope.L and every star who ever touched the ground, 2023.
“I
crawled barefoot, bare skinned, knowing that the pavement would burn me. I thought surely, my pain will reveal my humanity. But as I crawled and as I was met by the fire that was the bricks and the concrete, I was surprised by my own cries of agony.”
Performance art.
Still from Bara Baraan / Forever, 2022.
An experimental video about Oromia as a feminized landscape, exploring ecofeminism as a tool for the Oromo liberation movement.
Built using Blendr and Adobe Premier Pro.
Agartuu Inor, All Rights Reserved, 2025.