Alymamah Rashed
Painting
Lives and works in Kuwait City, Kuwait
Featured in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar Arabia, visual artist Alymamah Rashed's surrealist paintings investigate the discourse of her own body as a Muslima Cyborg of the post-internet generation, fluctuating between the east and the west. Her art negotiates her female subjectivity, regional folklore, and the rapid social shifts that she has witnessed through the industrialisation of the Gulf region.
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
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