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I. Nakhla

ARTIST, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR

Izzy Nakhla (also known as I. Nakhla) – is an artist, musician, and educator. Through sound, music and performance they build sonic worlds.

Listening to environment – and how it remembers – Nakhla’s art practice prompts questions about what we consider to be space, place, and exhibition - they make mischief with categories, rhythms and keys.

I. Nakhla works as a lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London. Nakhla releases music under the moniker end measure, and is part of Trans-Feminist collective In-grid.

Bio

Active Practice London / International

Nakhla has had work commissioned for The Southbank Centre, London; ARC, Stockton; IMT Gallery, London; NTS Radio and many more. As a composer and producer, collaborators include indie film directors, visual artists, choreographers, and game developers. Nakhla's scores have featured in international film and digital releases.

Their most recent audio production for Yuli Serfaty’s 'Whose A Good Girl' was shown at Frieze Art Fair, London 2026, whilst their original sound and music for Serfaty's 'Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover' has been screened at Xxijra Hii Gallery, London, Art-o-rama, Marseille, 2024, Festival L’Académie des Mutantes at Capc, Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux and added to the Lafayette Anticipations collection, 2024.

Timeline

Residencies

2025

Spaces & Places

Selected Artist with Shepherd Manyika, Camberwell Space Residency, Camberwell College of Art, UAL - London, UK

2024 — 2025

Shaftesbury Avenue Residency

Selected Artist, Bow Arts - London, UK

2024

ARC - Make New Work Comission (WASTE)

Selected Artist, ARC - Stockton, UK

2023

Digital Gardens Residency

Selected Artist, ame C.I.C - Huddersfield, UK

2021 — 2022

IMT Gallery Digital Residency Program

Selected Artist, IMT Gallery - London, UK

Selected Exhibitions & Performances

A selected archive of live performances, group exhibitions, and collaborations

2026

end measure performs songs from 'Love Songs, Not all about You' live with In-Grid
Dalston Den, London (December 2026)

In-Touch, Live audio performance with In-Grid
Avalon Cafe, London

Sound and Music for Yuli Serfaty's 'Good Girl Says No'
Xxijra Hii Gallery, Frieze London

2025

Live audio performance with </float> collective
Huddersfield

‘More than a Game (Part I)’, live audio performance
Shaftesbury Avenue, Bow Arts

‘Spaces and Places’, live audio performance with Shephard Manyika
Camberwell Space, UAL, London

Audio for ‘DUMP; 3D Preservation Space’
Seager Gallery, London

2024

‘Unravel’, live audio performance
The Albany Theatre, London

end measure live with In-Grid, Real Bodies 2.0
Avalon Café, London

WASTE live performance feat. Shad Chowdhury and Lucy Olivia
ARC, Stockton

Sound and Music for Yuli Serfaty ‘Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover’
Xxijra Hii Gallery, London; Art-o-rama, Marseille; Festival L’Académie des Mutantes, Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Anticipations, Lafayette, ParisLive audio performance for Yuli Serfaty, ‘Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover’, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London 

2023

end measure, live audio with In-grid
N16, London

Digital Gardens Weekend live performance
ame, Huddersfield 

University of Cambridge English dept, ‘Monstrous Math [Earthly Slime]’
University of Cambridge 

Live improvisation for ‘Curating IMT Gallery’ book launch
IMT Gallery, London

Concourse, end measure album release
online

Original music for Cedar Lewisohn’s ‘Plastic Language’, Dub Poetry Special
NTS Radio

end measure live sound set
Corsica Studios, London

E-land - Total Sound, vocal performance in collaboration with Katherine Smith
Iklectik ArtLab, London

2022

In-grid X SET hybrid live performance
SET Woolwich, London

‘Araucaria aracana’, in collaboration with Fiorella Angelini
Musei Mac, Chile

'A Bit Cliché', live performance, Cosmoses, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London

Public Sound Sculpture Commission, ‘On the Lips of Time’
Queens Walk, South Bank Centre, London

In-grid real bodies, live performance
Corsica Studios, London

Proxy Aurelia, live performance
Iklectik Art Lab, London

Digital residencies collective screening with IMT gallery
London Art Fair  

2021

London Grads Now
Saatchi Gallery, London

Slade school of Art, MA/MFA degree show
Slade School, UCL, London

Bambi Woods Presents, Radio Broadcast
Athens, Greece, Online

The Art Vault, New Futures Digital
Kovet Art Gallery, Online

Original sound and music for Augmented Reality, comp-arts MA degree show
Goldsmiths University, London

2020

London Grads Now
Saatchi Gallery, London

Queer in Exile, exhibition and digital book
Online

Online Card Commission selected artist
Tate, UK

Intimacy Spills, live audio performance,
Barbican Arts Group Trust

London Performance of ‘Solo Chorus’
Bloomsbury Theatre, London

2019

ArtLicks Radio Weekend, C.L.I.T Live, (production, composition, and mix)
Radio broadcast

Original Sound and Music for choreography - part of ‘On Edge: Is this for real?’
Science Gallery London

Slade School of Art Interim show, Slade School, UCL, London

Radio broadcast ‘The Sound of Bugs’ and ‘Slap me Flat’
Resonance FM

Colour Tale performance reading and drawings
Slade School, UCL, London

DISCOGRAPHY

Album Releases

Original Scores, Sound Mix and Masters

A selection of contracted produced audio for Film, Game, and Moving-Image

get in touch for sound work

2026

Original Sound and Music, Mix and Master for Yuli Serfaty's Film 'Good Girl Says No'
Frieze London, Regents Park, with Xxijra Hii Gallery

Mix and Master for April Lin's Film 'Debtford'
screened at Siobhan Davies Studio, London

2025

Score for ‘DUMP; 3D Preservation Space’,
For Chaney Diao, at Seager Gallery, London and online

Original Sound and Music for, ‘A Home Below’ 3D adventure game
Released 2027, STEAM

2024

Original Sound and Music, Mix and Master for Yuli Serfaty ‘Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover’,
Xxijra Hii Gallery, London; Art-o-rama, Marseille; Festival L’Académie des Mutantes, Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Anticipations, Lafayette, Paris

2023

Post-production, Mix and Master for ‘Memorial Gestures’ by April Lin
Holocaust Centre North, London

Sound recording, Mix and Master ‘Atlas Of Mediterranean Liquidity’ by Korallia Sterdges
Goethe Institut Zypern/Cyprus, Online Release

2022

Sound design, Mix and Master for ‘The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance’ for April Lin
FACT Liverpool/Jerwood Arts

Sound mix for ‘Myam Mwam Meow Miaow Mam Ma’ by artist Korallia Sterdges
Slade School of Art, MFA degree show

2021

Sound mix and sound design for ‘Tending to Ta’ by April Lin
Queer East Film Festival, and Horse Hospital, London

Sound design, Mix and Master for ‘TR333’ by April Lin
Welcome Collection, London, CCA Glasgow, and Sheffield Doc Fest, UK 

Public & Educational Workshops

Sound walks, experimental workshops, and listening exercises

2025

RE/IMAGINE

South London Gallery
2025

Spaces and Places sound walk

Camberwell Space
2024

Experimenting with sound design

ARC, Stockton
2024

Sound and Community

ARC, Stockton
2024

Deep Listening

Northampton University
2023

Sound, Sampling, and the Archive

ame, Huddersfield
2023

In the Field!

Northampton University
2023

Sound Club

Camberwell College of Art

Izzy Nakhla working professionally as I. Nakhla