**Website Under Construction** Alia Farid (b.1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has had solo exhibitions in Chisenhale Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; and CAC Passerelle. Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden, Whitney Biennial, Diriyah Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001 in MoMA PS1, Yokohama Triennale and Asia Pacific Triennial. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions in Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and Contemporary Art Museum Houston in partnership with Rivers Institute and Detroit Institute of Arts.
Alia Farid has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge) and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). In 2023, she received The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award and is currently the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2023-2024).
Polyester resin and fiberglass. Zamzamiya 160 x 160 x 240 cm; Water Bottle 100 x 100 x 297 cm; Jarrah 130 x 130 x 240 cm; Water Tower 260 x 260 x 280 cm; Heb 123 x 123 x 255 cm.
Views of the installation in Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Curator Christina Lenhert. Photography Diana Pfammatter.
