Alymamah Rashed

STATEMENT

“The body is beyond width, length, and depth. The body is a capsule of movement, occupation, and all of time. A body is a mode of placement. It is a dictator of gravity that is always in relation to an object, a space, or perhaps, another body. The human body is an accumulation of its surroundings. It learns what to reveal and conceal. The body moves and eventually orients itself according to the gravity of the spacein which it breathes within. My body was floating in seclusion inside my mother’s womb (formation). My work explores the birth of my body as a Muslima Cyborg. This process starts with the prayer rug, which functions as a concrete spatial departure point for my body/Al-Jism/ ( جسم†). The placement is thenfollowed by a metamorphic separation of my body. The Muslima Cyborg is compartmentalized through three physical presences. I have three collective bodies while my thobed body is placed within the rectangle of the prayer rug.” - Alymamah Rashed

EDUCATION

2019, MFA Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design

2016, BFA Fine Arts (Painting), School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

HONORS & AWARDS

2017-2019, Masters Academic Scholarship, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education

2016-2017, Professional Development Initiative Program Fellow, Sponsored by:
National U.S-Arab Chamber of Commerce
Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education
Embassy of the State of Kuwait in Washington
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences

2012-2016, Certificate of Academic Merit, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education

2012-2016, School of Visual Arts Dean's List

2012-2016, Merit Scholarship, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education

PUBLICATIONS

2020, Featured in 7 Days: Expanded Edition · Holly Crawford
AC Books, California, United States
Curatorial Brief and Catalogue for Mohamed AL Hemd’s “Halal Nights”

2019, Exhibition at CAP Gallery, Kuwait

2019, Featured in Tsquare Magazine Issue #23

2019, Featured in The Beyond Mag Issue 2

2018, Featured in “Convergence” Catalogue curated by Utsa Hazarika

2018, Featured in Sumou Magazine Issue 00 “All The Things We Don’t Feel”

2017, Featured in Air Sheets Publication by Sorry Archive

2017, Designed and illustrated a book cover for Bader Al Sanousi’s Publication

2015, (My Mind Made You Beautiful), Kuwait

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA

2021, Solo Exhibition in Tabari Art Space, Dubai, UAE

2020, “I Have Disappeared into You,” Gallery BAWA, Kuwait

2015, (My Mind Made You Beautiful), Parsol Projects, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022, Hunna Art Gallery, The Palm, Dubai

2021, Abu Dhabi Art Week, Tabari Artspace

2021, Tawr, Mono Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2021, As We Gaze Upon Her, Curated by Banat Collective, Warehouse 42, Dubai, UAE

2019, “Beneath Them Was Forever, ”Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Curated by Kathleen Forde

2019, “Zinc-Finger Like Folds, ”Curated by Rae Lavande Pellerin and Paloma Rosenzweig Castillo, New York, NY

2018, “Convergence,” Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School, New York, NY

2018, “European Literature Night”, Czech Center, New York

2018, “How an Artwork Should Speak,” 25 East Gallery, Parsons School of Design

2015, “Abstract,” Parsol Projects, New York, NY

2014, “Dig” Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

2012, Radisson Blu Hotel’s group exhibition, Kuwait

2009-2012, Al-Bayan Bilingual School annual art exhibition, Hawally, Kuwait

ARTICLES & FEATURES

2021, Not-So-Sexy Series With Alymamah Rashed, Miilkiina

2021, 10 Must-See Shows from Middle Eastern Galleries You Can View, Artsy

2020, In Conversation: Alymamah Rashed, Mathqaf

2020, Visual Artist Alymamah Rashed Explores The ‘Third Body,’ Harpers Bazaar Arabia

2020, A Moment With Alymamah: The Young Artist Living and Working in Kuwait, Visionary Project

2020, Alymamah Rashed, Alaquaza al Jadeeda

2020, 6 Arab Artists Reimagine This Season’s Freshest Scents, Vogue

2019, Parsons Fine Arts Presents the 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hyperallergic

2019, Selections from "Beneath Them was Forever, Artsy

LECTURES & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2021-2022, “Representing Others, Representing Ourselves: Politics and Identity in Contemporary Art,” Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2021, Dr. Banan Al Ansari’s “Design and Criticism, ”Visual Communication Design Department, College of Architecture, Kuwait University

2021, Dr. Sarah Al Falah’s Product Design, Visual Communication Design Department, College of Architecture, Kuwait University

2021, William Anderson “Contemporary Art,” College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Kuwait