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Alymamah Rashed
b. 1994, Kuwait

Alymamah Rashed is a visual artist who looks into the discourse of her own body as a Muslim Cyborg, fluctuating between east and the west. As a Muslim Cyborg, she collides her cultural references of home, between Kuwait and New York, and with the history of Islamic spiritualism.

Her work negotiates her female subjectivity, regional folklore, and the everyday banal objects that Alymamah Rashed encounters as well as the rapid social shifts that she has witnessed, such as the fast industrialisation of the Gulf region.

Alymamah Rashed is currently in residency at FIKAR (Kuwait) where she will present in November 2023 her third solo show, "Earth can be as dead as it can be alive".

Education

Parsons School of Design, MFA Fine Arts 2017 -2019
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2012- 2016
BFA Fine Arts (Painting)

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Hunna Art at Foundations, Winter 2023, Artsy
2024 "Boundless, Binding", Subliminal Projects x Emergeast, Los Angeles, USA
2022 "Eyes Wide Shut", Group exhibition, Firetti Contemporary, Dubai, UAE
2022 "Pathways", Group exhibition, Hunna Art in collaboration with Raffles The Palm, Dubai, UAE
2021 "Tawr", Group exhibition, Mono Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021 "As We Gaze Upon Her", Group Exhibition Curated by Banat Collective, Warehouse 42, Dubai, UAE
2021 Solo Exhibition in Tabari Art Space, Dubai, UAE
2020 “I Have Disappeared into You”, Virtual Solo Exhibition, Gallery BAWA, Kuwait
2019 “Beneath Them Was Forever”, Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Curated by Kathleen Forde
2019 “Zinc-Finger Like Folds” , Group Exhibition, 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
“How an Artwork Should Speak”, 25 East Gallery, Parsons School of Design
2015 (My Mind Made You Beautiful) Solo Exhibition at Parsol Projects, New York, NY
2015 “Abstract” Group Exhibition at 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