Sentences with phrase «arab artists»

He became notorious as a member of a generation of arab artists exploring the codes of conceptual art to question contemporary cultural identity and solo exhibitions of his work have been shown all over the world, and he has participated in numerous major group exhibitions — including, most recently, the 6th Quebec City Biennial and the 54th Venice Art Biennale.

The 54th Venice Biennial was notable for a number of things, not least the number of Arab artists represented there and, in some instances, the cancellation of shows — for a variety of different reasons — associated with the Middle East and North Africa.

Whether she deals with complex gender or political issues, or questions the pressures on Arab artists who are wedged between local and international expectations — a dose of lightheartedness serves as a strategy to open up conversation.

As one of the most prominent Arab artists, his work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; The Samawi Collection, Dubai; The Farjam Collection, Dubai; and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait.

After the Sandretto Re-Rebaudengo Collection and the V - A-C Collection, the Whitechapel programme of displays from private collections continues with the Barjeel Art Foundation with contemporary art by Arab artists.

The exhibitions present a diverse vision of Arab society and politics with works from fifty leading Arab artists of the Middle East and North Africa including acclaimed artists, Faisal Samra, Sadik Alfraji, Abdulnasser Gharem, Sama Alshaibi, Tammam Azzam and Ammar Al Beik.

In addition to photography, these Arab artists also created sculptures and installations.

«The Sharjah Art Museum has a 20 - year history of organising numerous exhibitions of Arab artists that are also represented in the Barjeel collection,» says Manal Ataya, director - general of the Sharjah Museums Authority.

It will look like Abu Dhabi because of the collection, the involvement of Middle East and Arab artists.

«The FotoFest 2014 Biennial will present a focused selection of the best contemporary photography, video and photo - based installation art being done by Arab artists in the Middle East and North Africa,» says FotoFest Senior Curator and Artistic Director Wendy Watriss.

She is one of the first curators in Europe to have initiated a series of exhibitions strategically aimed at bringing the work of Arab artists to the attention of a broader, international public.

The Biennial will showcase more than 40 contemporary Arab artists using photography and related visual media to address a broad range of aesthetic and cultural values impacting Arab culture.

«The Biennial will emphasize ideas and subjects important to contemporary Arab artists working with these media.»

The Arab artists in this display are as diverse as the countries they hail from but came of age in the dawn of a post-colonial era.

View from Inside, the biennial's principal exhibition, features 48 contemporary Arab artists from 13 countries, as well as numerous additional artists and scholars who are involved with exhibitions, workshops, and other related events at participating venues throughout Houston.

It summons the first Arab Artist Biennial in Baghdad in 1974, and China Avant - garde exhibition in Beijing in 1989 and the future Jogja Equator Conference in 2022, questioning constraints of time and place by suggesting leaps among those different places and times, and among basic laws that have governed and continue to govern thoughts.

Other works included Julie Mehretu's Rising Down, which sold for $ 3 million, and Icons of the Nile by Chant Avedissian, which set a record for a living Arab artist at $ 1.56 million.

Not exact matches

In the midst of the crisis, or rather perhaps because of it, they discovered, in the words of the early 20th - century Arab Christian revolutionary writer and artist Kahlil Gibran, that «Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall.

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The operation used con artists to help ensnare politicians with bribes by fake Arab sheiks.

That's listening at an open mic, or listening to a neighbor, or listening to my former students» loving voicemails, or listening to an artist at their gallery opening, or listening to my family crack jokes, or listening to Arabic music with my lovely friends at the Harvard Arab Student Association.

Conveniently positioned between the airport and downtown areas, close to the exhibition centre and Yas Island, The Rocco Forte Hotel Abu Dhabi combines contemporary Arab artwork including pieces by Lebanese artist Salwa Zeidan with the contemporary and luxurious vision of Olga Polizzi, sister of Sir Rocco Forte and award - winning design director for Rocco Forte Hotels.

The photographs were discovered in 1998 by the contemporary Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari and incorporated into the collection of the Arab Image Foundation, an organisation co-founded by Zaatari to collect and study images from the Arab world.

«Here and Elsewhere,» opening at the New Museum July 16, is billed as a major survey of contemporary art from the Arab world and includes figures such as Emirati conceptual artists Hassan Sharif and Abdullah al Saadi and Moroccan video artist Bouchra Khalili.

On June 5, 2018, Otis College will partner with the Hammer Museum to present Shirin Neshat's screening of a film within a film, «Looking for Oum Kulthum,» which depicts the plight of an Iranian woman artist / filmmaker living in exile as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.

The Whitechapel Gallery has presented 64 artists and 100 works of Arab art in an ambitious series of four displays which launched in September 2015 and ends in January 2017.

JMcK: What advice do you have for young artists today, particularly those living and working in the Arab world?

In addition, there are a number of special projects of note being presented at 1:54: the first major solo show in the UK of Malian photograph Malick Sidibe (1936 - 2016), who died in April; «The Arab Spring Notebook» by Sudanese artist Ibrahim El - Salahi; and a special exhibition by Addis Photo Fest, which was established by Ethiopian photographer Aida Muluneh.

The first in a new series of works triggered by the uprisings of the early 2010s, including the Arab Spring and riots across global locations including London and the artist's home town of Vancouver, these photographs focus on two scenes...

New York's Institute of Arab and Islamic Art has opened with a four - person show that accidentally features all women artists.

Brielmaier is the author of «Re-Position / Re-Present: Notes on Contemporary Photography of the Maghreb» (NAZAR: Photographs from the Arab World, Noorderlicht, The Fries Museum, The Netherlands, 2004) and Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa 1948 - 1953 (University of Washington Press, 2004) and has written and lectured on international art and photography for PARKETT Series with Contemporary Artists, Aperture Magazine, Nka: Journal for Contemporary African Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Brooklyn Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC School of the Visual Arts, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Harvard University, Howard University, New York University, Essence magazine and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Zaatari, born in Sidon, Lebanon in 1966, founded the archive The Arab Image Foundation, in 1997 in Beirut, with fellow artists Fouad Elkoury, Walid Raad and Samer Mohdad.

Lateefa bint Maktoum is the founder and director of Tashkeel, a public studio established in Dubai in 2008 providing specialist facilities for artists and designers living and working in the United Arab Emirates.

COUNTRY: United Arab Emirates AWARDED BY: The Abraaj Group WHAT IT IS: $ 1 million, split between five artists AIM: To support the growth of contemporary art in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia ELIGIBILITY: The artist must have been born in the Middle East, North Africa, or South Asia.

Artist Shirin Neshat's Looking for Oum Kulthum is a visually dazzling film - within - a-film about an Iranian artist - filmmaker who attempts to make a film about her hero, the legendary female Arab singer Oum KuArtist Shirin Neshat's Looking for Oum Kulthum is a visually dazzling film - within - a-film about an Iranian artist - filmmaker who attempts to make a film about her hero, the legendary female Arab singer Oum Kuartist - filmmaker who attempts to make a film about her hero, the legendary female Arab singer Oum Kulthum.

This year alone, Thompson's work was featured in Visionary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, ME; Regarding the Figure at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Inventing Downtown: Artist - Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 - 1965, previously at New York University's Grey Art Gallery and now on view at the school's gallery in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

2017 Inventing Downtown: Artist - Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 - 1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; New York University, Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, United Arab Emirates Picturing Mississippi: Land of Plenty, Pain and Promise, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, England Sputterances, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Regarding the Figure, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Visionary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Color People, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Figuratively Speaking, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

A panel discussion at The New York Times Art for Tomorrow conference in Doha explored the subject of how Arab women are portrayed in art, with Lalla Essaydi, an artist who lives and works in New York and Marrakesh, and Touria El Glaoui, the founder of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair and the daughter of the renowned Moroccan painter Hassan El Glaoui.

More commonly known by his first name, Marwan Kassab Bashi is one of Syria's most prominent modernist artists, and was instrumental to the internationalising of Arab contemporary art.

Curated by Sharjah Art Foundation President and Director Hoor Al Qasimi, I Am The Single Work Artist is the culmination of the artist's lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United Arab Emirates and in Sharjah, where he first began staging interventions and exhibitions of contemporary art, and exhibited at the first Sharjah Biennial inArtist is the culmination of the artist's lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United Arab Emirates and in Sharjah, where he first began staging interventions and exhibitions of contemporary art, and exhibited at the first Sharjah Biennial inartist's lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United Arab Emirates and in Sharjah, where he first began staging interventions and exhibitions of contemporary art, and exhibited at the first Sharjah Biennial in 1993.

The artist's cultural heritage, Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian, is reflected in his artistic interest and examination of Arab culture.

WALID RAAD The first survey of the Lebanese - born artist Walid Raad includes photographs, sculpture and video, often relating to conflicts in the Middle East and how the history of the Arab world has been constructed outside that region.

Ahmed Basiony's raw footage of the Arab spring looks just as impersonal, especially paired with footage of himself in a high - tech sweat suit of his own devising, perhaps to show that artists can sweat the big stuff.

Drawn from the Barjeel Art Foundation Collection based in the UAE, the Whitechapel Gallery has presented artists from across the Arab world who were either born or who have lived and worked in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.

Featuring a Complete Installation of the Artist's Studio and Never - Before - Seen Late Works, Comprehensive Survey Traces His Experimental Practice and Enduring Influence on Contemporary Art in the United Arab Emirates

North American artists also consider important cultural and political issues like the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, and the fight for LGBT rights.

Also given prominent spaces are Channa Horowitz, who died last year, with large - scale, intricately constructed ink drawings on mylar that are reminiscent of Hanne Darboven's numeric abstractions, and leporellos — painted accordion - folding books — by Etel Adnan, the Lebanese - American writer and artist who participated in dOCUMENTA 13 and has an exhibition at the Arab Museum of Modern Art (aka Mathaf) in Doha coming up later in March.

With new museums opening and artists such as Dia Al - Azzawi having major retrospective shows (Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, October 2016), Middle Eastern artists are becoming internationally known.