School of Art Speaker Series - Sama Alshaibi
Working
between
photography,
video,
and
installation,
Sama
Alshaibi
(b.
1973,
Iraq)
links
themes
of
dispossession,
mobility,
margins,
refuge,
entropy,
and
future/historic
imaginings.
Alshaibi’s
performances
depict
her
body
as
a
powerful
feminized
site
resisting
the
pretext
for
social
subjection
in
the
aftermath
of
war
and
migration.
In
2021,
Alshaibi
was
named
a
Guggenheim
Fellow
in
Photography,
and
a
recipient
of
the
Phoenix
Art
Museum’s
2021
Arlene
and
Morton
Scult
Artist
Award.
She
was
also
a
recipient
of
a
2019
Artpace
San
Antonio
residency
and
the
2018
Arab
Fund
for
Arts
and
Culture
Visual
Arts
Grant.
Alshaibi’s
exhibitions
include
the
55th
Venice
Biennale;
State
of
the
Art
2020
(Crystal
Bridges
Museum
of
Art);
2019
Cairo
International
Biennale;
2017
Honolulu
Biennal;
American
University
Museum,
Washington
D.C.;
SMoCA;
MARTa
Herford
Museum
(Germany);
Herbert
F.
Johnson
Museum
of
Art
(NYC);
Institut
Du
Monde
Arabe
(Paris);
and
Ayyam
Gallery
(UK/UAE).
Her
monograph,
Sama
Alshaibi:
Sana
Rushes
In
(New
York:
Aperture,
2015),
features
her
Silsila
Series.
Alshaibi
is
a
Professor
of
Photography,
Video
and
Imaging
at
the
University
of
Arizona
in
Tucson.
