CV - Razan Al Sarraf

  • Education

2022 California Institute of the Arts, MFA Candidate, Los Angeles, CA
2018 School of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, New York, NY

  • Honors & Awards

2022
TropicalLab Residency, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2020-2022 
SADI Residency, Sadu House, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Masters Scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait City, Kuwait

2018-2019
PDI Fellow with the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Kuwait Embassy, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science

2018
Alumni Society Scholarship & Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Honors in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2014-2018
Certificate of Academic Merit (yearly), Kuwait Culture Office, Washington, DC, USA Merit Scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  • Exhibitions

2022
durée, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
TropicalLab Residency Exhibition, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore BijouFest, CalArts, Valencia, CA
CalArts Expo, CalArts, Valencia, CA
METAMAKING, CalArts, Valencia, CA
MFA Open Studios, CalArts, Valencia, CA
gharb, ghurba, ghurbar, MFA Thesis, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Asia America, MoCA LI, Long Island, NY
Gulf Metaverse 2.0 - Radical Futures Festival, VCU, Qatar
Pathways, MIA Art Collection, Al Safa, Dubai, UAE

2021
Other Places Art Fair, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
SADI, Sadu House Gallery, Kuwait
CalArts Expo, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA
thurs.night, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA
Shake Up the Room, September Gallery, Hudson, New York
Feeler Gauge Festival, Virtual Film Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (Live until May 31)

2020
Solo Exhibition at Ghadir Gallery, Kuwait (cancelled due to Covid)
Solo Exhibition at Masaha 13, Kuwait (cancelled due to Covid)
Group Exhibition at Dar Al Funoon Gallery, Kuwait (cancelled due to Covid)
Showroom, Becarre, Salmiya, Kuwait

2019
Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Womankind Benefit, Womankind, New York, NY
Open Studios, Nolo Studios, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Generation ز , ArtX, New York, NY
Re-cord, SVA BFA Fine Arts Dept., New York, NY
Open Studios, SVA BFA Fine Arts Dept., New York, NY
We Love Decay, Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY
Abolish 153, The Hub, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Cutting Out, Art and Method, Brooklyn, NY
The Politics of Identity, SVA Chelsea gallery, New York, NY

2017
Tradition is the Illusion of Permanence, SVA Fine Arts Dept., New York, NY
BFA Fine Arts Open Studios, SVA Fine Arts Dept., New York, NY
Becoming Shades, Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
Herbs, Community Table, Kuwait
Showroom, Becarre Gallery, Salmiya, Kuwait

2016
(In)timate, Venue 845, Newark, New Jersey
RAW: MOTIF, the Warsaw, Brooklyn, New York
Saffron, the View, Kuwait
Mise, Salhiya, Kuwait
Artist's Journal, VCS Gallery, New York, New York | Curated by Peter Hristoff

  • Artist Talks

Expanding Boundaries (Panel Discussion with Maha Al Asaker, Deniz Ataman, Nada Faris, and Samaher Bayazeed), May 7, 2019, Soho House, New York, NY

(Re)imagining Home (Panel Discussion at the Arab Conference at Harvard), April 6, 2019, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Generation ز : Artist/ Curator Talk and Exhibition Tour, December 19, 2018, ArtX, New York, NY

Culture Forum: Art for Sustainable Futures (Panel Discussion with artists Rashad Salim and Matthew Mazzota, moderated by Stephen Stapleton), October 16, 2018, Asia Society, New York, NY

International Student Artist Panel Discussion, August 31, 2017, SVA Student Center, New York, NY

Sotheby’s Institute of Art: Studio Visit and Artist Talk, February 13, 2017, SVA Fine Arts Department, New York, NY

Cultural Partner Program: Opening Ceremony, October 12, 2016, SVA Main Campus, New York, NY

International Student Artist Panel Discussion, August 26, 2016, SVA Student Center, New York, NY

  • Public Art Projects

City Kids Mural, June 2019, Brooklyn NY

Generation ز Wild Postings, October 2018, Brooklyn NY

Acorn School Murals, September 2017, New York, NY

Stuyvesant Cove Park Murals, April 2017, New York, NY

Sarajatel Munira Nursery Murals, April 2013, Zanzibar, Tanzania

  • Press

“Meet Razan AlSarraf”, Shoutout LA, September, 2022
“METAMAKING” Exhibition Catalogue, June, 2022
“The Unseen and the Un-Thought: Hunna..”, Middle East Monitor, August, 2021
Gallery Girl Meets Razan Al Sarraf, Gallery Girl Podcast, 2021
Artist Portraits (book), Max Ryazansky, October, 2020 
Artists in Quarantine”, Mid East Art, 2020 
“Blending Colors...” Revolukin magazine, December, 2019 
“The Voyages of Tim Vetter Podcast: Episode 110 Art, Identity, and Kuwait with Razan Al Sarraf”, 2019
“Superposition - One Year Anniversary”, Paris-LA, August, 2019
“Superposition Gallery - Boiling Point Exhibition”, Artnet, August, 2019
“Razan Al Sarraf: … a new picture of Arab identity in New York”, The National, October, 2018
“I’m a Young Saudi Journalist. Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance Will Not Silence Us”, TIME, October, 2018
“Generation ز - Young Arab Artists: New York“ Edge of Arabia, October, 2018
“Six Women Who Are Shaping New York’s Creative Art Scene”, Harpers Bazaar Arabia, December, 2017