Alia Farid
- Alia Farid
- Work
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Brest, France, 2024
Alia Farid (b.1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico.
She has had solo exhibitions at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; and CAC Passerelle. Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in Sharjah Biennal 16, Artes Mundi, the Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden, Whitney Biennial, Diriyah Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001 in MoMA PS1, Yokohama Triennale and Asia Pacific Triennial.
Alia Farid has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge) and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). In 2023, she received The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award and is currently the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2023-2024).
Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2026 | Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan, USA (forthcoming) Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Rivers Institute in partnership, Houston, Texas, USA (forthcoming) |
| 2025 | The Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary in partnership, Copenhagen, Denmark (forthcoming) Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Perez Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA (forthcoming) |
| 2024 | Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway Stanford Plinth Project, Stanford University, California, USA Centre d'art contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France |
| 2023 | Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK |
| 2022 | Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA In Lieu of What Is, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2020 | In Lieu of What Was, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2025 | Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Diriyah Biennale 2025, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| 2024 | Jameel Prize: Moving Images, V&A, London, U.K Portals, Galeria Francisco Fino, Porto, Portugal Public Art Abu Dhabi (PAAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The Soup, Madragoa Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal Blind Date 2.0, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Otra Orilla, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi |
| 2023 | Artes Mundi 10, Cardiff, Wales, UK Water Stories, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Z33 Art on the Meuse, Hasselt, Belgium Biennale für Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Diriyah Biennale, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| 2022 | Forecast Form, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, USA Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Geneva Biennale: Sculpture Garden, Geneva, Switzerland Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| 2020 | Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 10, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Yokohama Triennale 2020: Afterglow, Yokohama, Japan In Pursuit of Images, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Lahore Biennale: Between the Sun and Moon, Lahore, Pakistan |
| 2019 | Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York, NY Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE |
| 2018 | The 12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea Enchanted Bodies/Fetish for Freedom, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy |
| 2017 | JIWA, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia Bridges, United Nations, New York, United States Cities of Conviction, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, United States Negotiating Space, The Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom |
Awards | |
| 2023-24 | Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Premio UBS para Artistas Contemporáneos (MAPR - UBS) Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award The Vega Foundation Grant |
| 2023-24 | Doha Film Institute Grant Creative Capital Award |
| 2018-19 | Art Jameel Award Commission Arab Fund for Culture and Arts (AFAC) Grant |
Residencies | |
| 2023 | Rivers Institute in partnership with Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| 2022 | Art Explora, Paris, France Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, MoMA, Valle del Bravo, Mexico |
| 2021 | Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
Public Collections | |
| Kadist Art Foundation Art Jameel Whitney Museum of American Art Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) Bonnefanten Guggenheim Abu Dhabi | |
Education | |
| 2012 | MACBA Programa d’Estudis Independents (PEI), MA |
| 2008 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MSVisS |
| 2006 | Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, BFA |