Sama Alshaibi

Alshaibi’s work has been exhibited at arts institutions and galleries in over twenty countries, including Impressions Gallery (UK), Exit Art (NYC), Institut Du Monde Arabe (Paris), Darat Al-Funun (Jordan), The Bronx Museum (NYC) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver). She is represented by Selma Feriani Gallery (London) and Lawrie Shabibi Gallery (Dubai). In addition to exhibitions, her 25 time-based works (video art/films) have screened in numerous film festivals internationally including the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, CinemaEast Film Festival (NYC), DOKUFEST (Kosovo) and Les Instants Video festival (France). Her art has been curated into prominent international art fairs including Paris Photo (France), ArtDubai (U.A.E), Moving Image (NYC), Pulse Art Fair (NYC) and Pingyao International Photography Festival (China). Her work has been written about and published in numerous journals and magazines including Contact Sheet, Nueva Luz, Contemporary Practices, Harper’s Bazaar, Images Magazine and Canvas Magazine. Books that include scholarly analysis of her work include We Are All Iraqis (Syracuse Press), Palestinian Women Artists (Al Hoash Press), Women & War (Zed Books) and Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism in a Time of Crises (Midmarch Press). Her works have been collected by notable collectors internationally, including public collections such as Nadour Collection (Germany), Barjeel Art Foundation (UAE), Enfoco/Nueva Luz Collection (NYC) and the upcoming Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Tunis). She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Photography, Video and Media Arts in 2005 and her Bachelors of Arts in Photography from Columbia College, Chicago in 1999. She is now serving a four-year term as an elected National Board Member of The Society For Photographic Education (USA). She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography/Video Art at University of Arizona (Tucson).