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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 Sama Alshaibi, Olives from Gaza: The Bitter Dream, Birthright series, 2004. Archival print on Somerset cotton rag paper, 30x23"  Sama Alshaibi, Target Practice, 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: ** 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: Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, 1999 Masters in Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005 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: Darat Al Funun, Jordan 2007 The International Center of Bethlehem, West Bank, 2005 Publications: 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) Artist’s Statement: “My work negotiates the shifts between personal and family history, creating a context to understand the impact of war and exile. It serves as more than a historical archive and authoritative record. My work, based on my family’s exile, uses the body as a symbol – the retrospective witness that links our present to a time before we were refugees, exiles and 'terrorists.' The quintessential woman, the pregnant mother, performs the injustices, defying all attempts to obliterate our history and who we collectively are. Freedom fighter, terrorist, soldier, insurgent, peacekeeper… this conundrum of perception taking place in my womb was a microcosm of the agenda of righteousness played out in modern day politics. All my maternal instincts are powerless to protect him from the future he will be forced to inherit because of his national identity. Website: |
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