Nonetheless, she has experienced significant movement and migration throughout her life and in her art. Uman was born in Somalia in 1980, but the country’s civil war forced her family to flee when she was nine years old. When she was thirteen, they moved to Denmark. She relocated to New York City in the 2000s, setting up shop on the sidewalks around Union Square to sell her artwork. She moved upstate in 2010, far from the bustle and commotion. “I thought the city did not support my creativity very well.
