CV - Alymamah Rashed

  • Education

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

  • Honors & Awards

Masters Academic Scholarship, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education 2017-2019
Professional Development Initiative Program Fellow, 2016-2017
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
Certificate of Academic Merit, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education 2012 - 2016
School of Visual Arts Deans List 2012-2016
Merit Scholarship, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education 2012-2016

  • Publications

Featured in 7 Days: Expanded Edition · Holly Crawford 2020
AC Books, California, United States
“The Metaphoric Phases of my Collective Body as a Muslima Cyborg”
by Alymamah Rashed, Published by Saalt Press
Curatorial Brief and Catalogue for Mohamed AL Hemd’s “Halal Nights”
Exhibition at CAP Gallery, Kuwait 2019
Featured in Tsquare Magazine Issue #23 2019
Featured in The Beyond Mag Issue 2 2019
Featured in “Convergence” Catalogue curated by Utsa Hazarika 2018
Featured in Sumou Magazine Issue 00 “All The Things We Don’t Feel” 2018
Featured in Air Sheets Publication by Sorry Archive 2017
Designed and illustrated a book cover for Bader Al Sanousi’s Publication 2017
(My Mind Made You Beautiful), Kuwait 2015

  • Exhibitions

"Eyes Wide Shut", Group exhibition
May 2022
Firetti Contemporary, Dubai, UAE

"Pathways", Group exhibition
January - March 2022
Hunna Art in collaboration with Raffles The Palm, Dubai, UAE

"Tawr", Group exhibition
October 2021
Mono Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

"As We Gaze Upon Her", Group Exhibition Curated by Banat Collective
October 2021
Warehouse 42, Dubai, UAE

Solo Exhibition in Tabari Art Space March 2021,
Dubai, UAE

“I Have Disappeared into You” 2020
Virtual Solo Exhibition
Gallery BAWA, Kuwait

“Beneath Them Was Forever”
Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Curated by Kathleen Forde
http://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/2019mfathesis/ 2019

“Zinc-Finger Like Folds” , Group Exhibition 2019
Curated by Rae Lavande Pellerin and Paloma Rosenzweig Castillo
New York, NY

“Convergence”, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School, 2018
New York, NY

“European Literature Night”, Czech Center New York 2018

“How an Artwork Should Speak”,
25 East Gallery, Parsons School of Design 2018

(My Mind Made You Beautiful) Solo Exhibition at Parsol Projects, 2015
New York, NY

“Abstract” Group Exhibition at Parsol Projects, New York, NY 2015

“Dig” Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2014

Radisson Blu Hotel’s group exhibition, Kuwait, 2012

Al-Bayan Bilingual School annual art exhibition, Hawally, Kuwait 2009-2012

  • Links/Press

https://miilkiina.com/not-so-sexy-with-alymamah-rashed/
https://www.tabariartspace.com/exhibitions/67-alymamah-rashed-solo-solo-exhibition/video/
https://www.tabariartspace.com/press/80-uae-listings-tabari-artspace-alymamah-rashed/
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-must-see-middle-eastern-galleries-view-online
https://www.tabariartspace.com/artists/109-alymamah-rashed/overview/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCT5sMhZwXQ
https://mathqaf.com/2020/12/03/in-conversation-alymamah-rashed/
https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/culture/art/visual-artist-alymamah-rashed-explores-the-third-body
https://thevisionaryprojects.com/editorial/alymamah
https://www.alyaqazaaljadeeda.com/alymamah-rashed/
https://en.vogue.me/beauty/arab-artists-reimagine-fragrances/
https://hyperallergic.com/494032/parsons-new-school-beneath-them-was-forever-2019-mfa-thesis-exhibition/
https://www.artsy.net/show/essa-muhammad-selections-from-beneath-them-was-forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7wOdhyZlk
https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/student-work/?id=17179880279

  • Guest Speaker Lectures

Guest Lecturer
Dr. Banan Al Ansari’s “Design and Criticism”
Visual Communication Design Department
College of Architecture
Kuwait University 2021

Guest Lecturer and Guest Mentor
Dr. Sarah Al Falah’s Product Design
Visual Communication Design Department
College of Architecture
Kuwait University 2021

Guest Lecturer
William Anderson “Contemporary Art”
College of Arts and Sciences
American University of Kuwait 2021