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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Sama Alshaibi, Target Practice, Birthright series, 2004. Archival print on Somerset cotton rag paper, 30x23"  © Sama Alshaibi, Olives from Gaza, Birthright series, 2004. Archival print on Somerset cotton rag paper, 30x23  © Sama Alshaibi, Abu Amar R.I.P., Birthright series, 2004. Archival print on Somerset cotton rag paper, 30x23" |
Sama Alshaibi Born: 1973, Basra, Iraq Residence: Tucson, AZ Heritage: Palestinian-Iraqi Selected Exhibitions: En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Syracuse, NY 2011 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2011 Selma Feriani Gallery, London, 2010 Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, 2010 DARB 1718, Cairo, Egypt, 2010 Le Violon Bleu, Tunisia, 2010 Al Hoash, Jerusalem, Palestine, 2010 Incheon Women Artists' Bienniale, Incheon, South Korea, 2009 Bronx Museum, NYC, NY, 2008 ** Nueva Luz Artist Talk at Peer Gallery, NYC, March 1** En Foco at Umbrella Arts + Projects, New York, NY, 2008 Exit Art, New York, NY, 2007 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2007 The University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, South Africa 2006 The Khalil Sakakini Center, Ramallah, Palestine, 2006 Al Hoash Contemporary Art Gallery, Jerusalem, 2006 Zero Station, Portland, Maine, 2006 Carl Nelson Gorman Museum, Davis, CA, 2006 La Fabrica Arte Contemporaneo, Guatemala 2003, 2004, 2005 Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, 2005 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, 2003 Education: MFA, 2005, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO BFA, 1999, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Awards: Honorable Mention, Camera Arts Magazine, 2005 Goueter Missouri Collection Prize, St. Louis Artist, MO, 2003 Center for Humanities and Arts Fellowship, University of Colorado 2003-2004 Illinois Arts Council Grant, Individual Artist, 2000, 2001 Residencies: LightWork, Syracuse, NY, 2010 Darat Al Funun, Jordan 2007 The International Center of Bethlehem, West Bank, 2005 Publications: Contact Sheet: essay by Dr. Nada Shabout, Light Work Annual, 2011 Nueva Luz, Volume 12#1 (En Foco Inc: Bronx, NY, 2007) Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers (C.N. Gorman Museum: CA) Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 27:2 (University of Nebraska Press: NE) 30 Palestinian Women Artists (Al Hoash Palestinian Art Court: Jerusalem) We Make The Road By Walking (Mizel Museum: CO) Sama Alshaibi’s art evokes the language of dislocation and loss, articulating negotiations between body, disputed land, and shifting political realities. A photographer, installation and time-based artist, Alshaibi is primarily interested in the body’s relationship to land: how it is controlled, patrolled, denied and transformed. Her works examine war, occupation and the sprawl of the military machine while presenting the human body as counter-point to such national endeavors. She often use her own body to test the limits of access and privilege; infiltrating guarded spaces, negotiating borders, even if at gunpoint. A Palestinian-Iraqi exiled to the United States, her art reflects forced migrations and the in-between state of statelessness. Alshaibi is also interested in the threshold of two different existential planes, of disorientation, and spaces between spaces. Whether applied within a context of a political map or even the search for meaning, her practice is rooted in the anxieties of the human experience. Website: |
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