Serj Abdul-Jabbar is an award winning motion designer and moving image artist living in New York City. His practice finds inspiration from the kaleidoscopic world of queer nightlife, the dazzle of pop culture, and the DIY attitude of punk. Serj’s artistic philosophy hinges on uplifting marginalized voices and creating an archive of queer and trans histories as they happen. His artistic practice includes experimental animation, documentary, painting, and installation.
As a motion designer, Serj has worked with IPs, brands, and organizations such as AppleTV+, HBO, Showtime, NBCUniversal, Warner Brothers, Peacock, NBA, Google, Uber, Galderma, OGX, and more producing content for organic and paid social, digital campaigns, and out-of-home displays.
In his free time, Serj loves watching and making documentaries, chainmailing, and playing bass guitar. He graduated with his BFA in Fine Art and Design at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
Email him at serj@abduljab.bar
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Motion Design C/V
Peacock Paris Olympics 2024
Audience Honor, Shorty Awards 2025
TBS American Dad Season 18
Finalist, Multi-Platform Campaign, Shorty Awards 2024
Juror for the 2023 Campaign US BIG Awards
Ted Lasso – BELIEVE
Winner, Social Comedy, Webby Awards 2022
Winner, Best Community Management, Webby Awards 2022
Winner, People’s Voice Winner, Webby Awards 2022
Sing 2
Finalist, TikTok, Shorty Awards 2021
Art C/V
C.U.N.T. (2024, Documentary Short)
Baby Teeth Film Festival 2025, New York, NY – Winner, Audience Award
Queens Film Festival 2025, New York, NY
DMAC Downtown NYC Short Film Festival 2024, New York, NY – Winner, Best NYC Film
Loisaida & Lower East Side Film Festival 2024, New York, NY
In the Margins (2019, Animation)
2019 Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival, London, England
2019 Massimadi Festival, Montreal, Quebec
2019 Soura Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
CitizenSHIP 2019, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI
Adapt: The 2019 Stamps Senior Show, Ann Arbor, MI
Dysphoria (2017, Animation)
rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change 2018, SAPAC, Ann Arbor, MI
Don’t Hide From Me (2016, Animation)
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2017, Ann Arbor, MI
[D/R]econstruction (2016, Animation)
Undergraduate Juried Show 2017, Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
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