Born in Montreal to Jamaican and Nigerian parents and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Junaid's work frequently engages themes of Blackness, the African diaspora and the history of Atlantic Canada.
With the intention of making visible the connection between Newfoundland and the Caribbean diaspora, Junaid initiated and co-curated (along with Pamela Edmonds) the New-Found-Lands project at St. John's Eastern Edge Gallery in 2016.
[3] The New-Found-Lands exhibition featured Junaid's work Two Pretty Girls – a re-enactment by the artist and her sister of a 19th century image of two unnamed plantation workers.
[5] Reclaiming a 1903 stereoview of children in a Caribbean sugarcane field as a form of family portraiture, Sweet Childhood includes archival photography and text printed on a backlit fabric panel.
Bushra has illustrated a book for small children by Adwoa Badoe with colourful collages, some enriched with clippings from photographs of the sky, fruit or faces.