Miriam Hillawi Abraham

Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multidisciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in architecture, her work deals with experimental preservation and the continuation of both material heritage and immaterial knowledge from the African continent. Her methodology places Abraham in the role of a weaver, interlacing threads that connect scattered worlds with one another. Following her fellowship as a Mellon researcher for the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Digital Now multidisciplinary project, Abraham is now an artist in residence at the Jan Van Eyck. Abraham’s work has been featured in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, as well as the 2nd Sharjah Architecture Triennial and the 14th Shanghai Biennale, “Cosmos Cinema.”

Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a participant of the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies program for 2025/26.