[5][8] In 2012, Virani had a solo art exhibit at McGill University, entitled "Copycat", where he combined hundreds of participant drawings that were reproduced ‘live’ onto a collaborative painting over the course of different events.
[18] In 2017, Virani received a grant from the Silk Road Institute's Combating Hate, Advancing Inclusion (CHAI) digital video arts initiative for his project, "Postering Peace".
[8] In 2017, at a Montreal vigil in the aftermath of the Quebec City mosque shooting, Virani also had attendees contribute to a "live painting", where they could write messages over his depiction of Muslim hands in prayer.
[29][30] At the end of his residency at the museum in 2022, he unveiled a collaborative animated film, a series of six participatory visual artworks, and a book compiling 100 immigrant stories submitted from participants across the country.
[34][1] The artworks, measuring 30 x 65 inches each, were shipped to the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec to be exhibited for the 5th anniversary commemoration of the attack on January 29, 2022, before being gifted directly to the families.
[37] The travelling exhibition integrates family photographs, first-hand accounts, historical documents, and personal interviews with Canadian Ismaili Muslims from Uganda, Afghanistan, Syria, Tajikistan, India, Pakistan and beyond.
According to an interview published on the museum’s website, Virani’s goal is to "showcase the courage and resilience of the countless Ismaili Muslims who fled their homelands in search of refuge.”[38] He says he "spent hundreds of hours over several months researching, writing, gathering, corresponding, interviewing, editing, photo editing, designing panels, editing text, and producing the audio play [...] in service to the community.” The exhibition was presented in Vancouver, Toronto, Brampton, Kitchener, Pickering, Edmonton, Calgary, Brossard and Ottawa at the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, with various political figures like NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, and Senator Mobina Jaffer attending different local launch events, including one event co-hosted by the Vancouver Art Gallery.