Naeem Dxvis is a Jamaican British artist, filmmaker and curator, originally from South London and currently living between the UK and South Africa. Working across moving image, installation and placemaking, their practice centres decolonial approaches to neurodivergence and gender expansion, using storytelling as a method of collective remembering, intimate disruption and radical kinship.

Rooted in Black queer feminist thought, Naeem’s work explores the emotional architecture of memory, care and transformation. Through film, sound and embodied practice, they craft meditative visual worlds that honour the complexity of marginalised experiences, often unfolding in intimate, liminal spaces.

Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at Sundance Film Festival, BFI Flare, and across Europe and North America. In 2024, they established What If We Were, an experimental residency for Global Majority neurodiverse, initiated and disabled artists, during a pilot edition in South Africa. The residency will continue with a second iteration at Cove Park in Scotland in 2026, expanding its commitment to access, slowness and speculative world building across disciplines.

As the co-founder and creative director of BBZ, Naeem spent over six years curating exhibitions, public programmes and nightlife spaces for queer and trans people of colour, with partners including Tate, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, BFI, Glastonbury Festival and the British Council.

Spanning continents, mediums and communities, Naeem’s practice remains committed to building intentional, liberatory spaces for connection, visibility and transformation.