Alymamah Rashed Kuwaiti, b. 1994
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Biography
Alymamah Rashed is a Kuwaiti visual artist who explores topics of identity and the natural environment through the story of her body, fluctuating between perspectives of the east and west. Her work negotiates her female subjectivity in relation to regional folklore, the banal objects she encounters everyday, and her local botanical finds.
Alymamah received her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design in 2019 and her BFA in Fine Arts at The School of Visual Arts in 2016. She participated in several exhibitions in New York City including at the Czech Center, Parsol Projects, and The New School. She is a recipient of the Masters Scholarship and the Merit Scholarship program by the Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education. She was also a fellow at the Professional Development Initiative Program sponsored by the National U.S-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education, Embassy of Kuwait, and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.
Alymamah’s work has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Farfetch, The Visionary Project, and in 7 Days: Expanded Edition by AC Books. In parallel with her artistic practice, Alymamah has been invited to collaborate with international luxury brands including Dior and Piaget.EDUCATION
2017-2019, Parsons School of Design, MFA Fine Arts
2012-2016, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA Fine Arts (Painting)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS2026, ‘My Circular Spirit Resides in Your Land/ (تسكن روحي المتقلبة في أرضكِ)’, Hunna Art Gallery, Paris, France
2025, I Found You Above My Skin Under My Earth, Hunna Art Gallery, Kuwait
2025, Mirrors from the Sidewalk, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, UAE
2023, Earth Can Be As Dead As It Can Be Alive, Failaka, Kuwait (Hunna Art x Dar Fikr x Mathqaf)
2021, Alymamah Rashed Solo Exhibition, Tabari Artspace, 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
2018, Convergence, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School, New York, NY
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
2014, Dig, Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2009-2012, Al Bayan Bilingual School annual art exhibition, Hawally, Kuwait
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026, Same Air, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, UAE
2026, Habitat.Hortus Consulus, 3L Gallery, Moscow, Russia2026, In SITU: Art, Research, and Practice on Failaka Island, Fikar X CAP Gallery, Kuwait
2026, I Dreamt We Dreamt of Eden, Hayaty Diaries X Hunna Art, Kuwait
2025, Fertile Dreams, Tabari Artspace, UAE
2025, The Power of Intention (Just as a Talisman), Villa Cramer, Brera District, Milan, Italy2024, Boundless/Binding at Subliminal Projects, curated by Emerge East in Los Angeles, US
2023, Elles - هن ,Hunna, Paris, France
I Won’t Break: A Reflection on Gender Violence, curated by Bebe Leone
Rome, Italy2021, Group Exhibition, Hunna Art, Dubai, UAE
2019, Zinc-Finger Like Folds, Group Exhibition, Curated by Rae Lavande Pellerin and Paloma Rosenzweig Castillo, New York, US
2015, Abstract, Group Exhibition at Parsol Projects, New York, US
ART FAIRS
2026, ARCO, Madrid, Spain, with Baro Galeria
2025, Abu Dhabi Art, UAE, with Hunna Art
2025, Art Paris, France, with Hunna Art
Art Dubai, UAE, with Tabari Artspace and Piaget
2024, Abu Dhabi Art, UAE2024, Art Paris, France
Artsy Foundations Fair
Art Dubai, UAE
2023, Abu Dhabi Art, UAE
Mena Art Fair, BelgiumHONOURS AND AWARDS
2017-2019, Scholarship, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education
2016-2017, Professional Development Initiative Program Fellow, sponsored by the National US - 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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026, Alymamah Rashed: The Spirit Multiplies for You and I to Meet Again, Skira
2020, 7 Days: Expanded Edition. Holly Crawford, AC Books, California, United States
2020, The Metaphoric Phases of my Collective Body as a Muslima Cyborg by Alymamah Rashed, Published by Saalt Press
2019, Curatorial Brief and Catalogue for Mohamed AL Hemd's Halal Nights Exhibition at CAP Gallery, Kuwait
2018, Convergence Catalogue curated by Utsa Hazarika
2017, Air Sheets Publication by Sorry Archive
2017, Designed and illustrated book cover for Bader Al Sanousi's Publication
2015, (My Mind Made You Beautiful), Kuwait
SELECTED PRESS
2025, The Stories We Carry: Alymamah Rashed for Dior Lady Art #10, Dior
2025, Kuwaiti artist Alymamah Rashed reimagines Lady Dior, Arab News
2025, Kuwaiti Artist Alymamah Rashed Brings an Iconic Piaget Timepiece to Life at Art Dubai 2025, Architectural Digest
2025, Artist Alymamah Rashed On Partnering With Piaget For Art Dubai, Harper's Bazaar
2025, Exclusive: Kuwaiti Artist Alymamah Rashed Reimagines the Lady Dior Bag, Vogue
2024, A Poem by Fady Joudah, The Baffler, Echo 76
2024, A Body is A Holder of One's Stories: Alymamah Rashed, Sandy Times
2023, Creative Talks: The Essence of Soul and Spirit with Alymamah Rashed, Khamsa
2023, Alymamah Rashed – Tales of the Body, Yung
2023, In The Studio | Alymamah Rashed, Tappan Collective
2023, Creative Talks, Khaleejesque x Virgin Mobile
2023, Masafa Podcast2021, 10 Must-See Shows from Middle Eastern Galleries You Can View, Gallery Girl Meets Alymamah Rashed, Gallery Girl
2020, Visual Artist Alymamah Rashed Explores The Third Body, Harper's Bazaar Arabia
2019, The Beyond Mag Issue 2, Tsquare Magazine Issue #23
2018, Sumou Magazine Issue 00, All The Things We Don't Feel
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2025, Dior’s 10th Lady Dior Art Project, in collaboration with Dior
2025, Your Love Moves Around My Trapeze Sun (Will You Hold Our Glistening Light?), in collaboration with Piaget
2025, Bvlgari X Alymamah Rashed, Canvas Magazine Collaboration
2025, Dastaangoi x Alymamah Rashed Candle Collabortaion
2024, La Makenerie x Alymamah Rashed Scarf Collaboration
2022, Farfetch x Alymamah Rashed Commission
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Works
Alymamah Rashed Kuwaiti, b. 1994
My Reds Will Grow A Strawberry Field #4, 2024Ink and color pencil on paper30 x 21 cm
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inSoldExhibitions
The spectrum of immersion swims, blooms, and grows. My spirit aligns its state through the shape of my body. In blues, I find myself indulging in love, a lover, and a union. The lover can be gone, but the shores of them will be remembered in a capsule of water. Blue is preserving eternity in the finite.
A wave comes towards my shores, flattens and then disappears.
A lover holds me, kisses me, and then disappears.
My blues will hold you forever.
Red is an arrival point, a lifetime of indulgence, and desire. Through red, I am able to plant a reclamation. I sprout within myself and through myself. I am able to escape the mirage of a union, and yet, I live within the union of myself. Red plants a thousand seeds on my flesh and births a field of strawberries on my skin. Sweetness fluctuates in the streams of my body and it flows through the fountain of my youth.
A seed is planted, indulgence is born, and forgotten promises wash above my skin.I yearn for you, I caress your remembrance, and love grows beneath my skin.My reds will grow a field of strawberries.
My practice is decimated through the waves of my personal life. Each work is linked to all spectrums of love I get to experience in my journey. My works have always been in a state of flux that is linked to the spirit’s yearning for salvation and rest. However, my works are currently living between blooming and demolition. As I crash, I am able to rise again and liberate myself. Between the states of bloom and demolition, I create rest points through referencing the objects I collect, ranging from fruits given to me by my father, pebbles collected from an island, or a butterfly that landed on a flower on the sidewalk. These findings turn into animated ornaments that are found in a state of flux and then are transformed as rest points for the spirit on canvas. Previously, the eye of the figures was also considered to be a rest point. However, the eye has transformed into an entryway into the state of restlessness. Through the eye, I am able to swim through the figure and beyond the field of the paper or canvas. The figures are now encapsulated within the space of the canvas and touch the edges to challenge what one would generate within a compacted space. I am interested in allowing the figure to generate its own vastness and sense of expansion through limitations of space. This is also an attempt to preserve the generation of infinity in time; an image captured in time and a gaze that can animate the moment. I let each work expand through its desired fluidity. Each work has its own timing and I learned to embrace the process rather than identifying the process with how it ends. I'm interested in birthing the start and letting the work breathe infinitely.
There is no end. Through this new body of work, I chose to gift you a field of strawberries: a remembrance of love through honouring your past hurts, reclaiming your presence through renewal, and a future that multiplies in abundance. Strawberry fields is an ode to myself, a promise to preserve love, and a prayer to Gaza. In my strawberry fields, I found a sweeter futureExhibitions-
Fertile Dreams, Group Exhibition
Tabari Artspace 1 November 2025 - 1 April 2026Fertile Dreams exists in the slippages between soil and psyche, where earthly terrain fuels the landscape of the unconscious. Fertility is not only a question of biology, but of sustenance,...Explore -
Mirrors From the Sidewalk, Alymamah Rashed Solo
Tabari Artspace 12 October - 10 November 2024I see myself mirrored on the sidewalks I see myself picking one date after another I see myself gazing at the seventh sky I see myself coming back to myself...Explore -
Alymamah Rashed Solo, Strawberry Fields
Online Exhibition 1 April 2024 - 5 June 2025Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Alymamah Rashed, Abu Dhabi Art 2023
22 - 26 November 2023For her presentation at Abu Dhabi Art Alymamah Rashed has produced a body of work that had evolved from research conducted during her recent residency on Failaka Island in Kuwait....Explore -
When my Heart Danced Near Your Mirage, Alymamah Rashed Solo
11 November 2022 - 5 January 2023When my Heart Danced Near Your Mirage was the solo exhibition of Kuwaiti painter, Alymamah Rashed presented at Tabari Artspace Gallery, DIFCExplore -
Alymamah Rashed Solo
22 March - 31 May 2021Tabari Artspace Gallery in Dubai presented a series of works by Kuwaiti painter, Alymamah Rashed.Explore
