Sama Alshaibi Iraq and Palestine, b. 1973

On Wednesday October 23rd, the Yale Department of the History of Art will host an artist talk featuring Sama Alshaibi. Alshaibi, a distinguished artist, explores...

Bassam Freiha Art Foundation is the first and only private art foundation in the Saadiyat Cultural District. ⁠ The Foundation's annex gallery features an exhibition...

The Barjeel Art Foundation in collaboration with Foundry presents: The Circle Was a Point. A mediation of the Barjeel Art Foundation photography collection curated by...

We are excited to announce that ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizon State University, will be hosting Sama Alshaibi for a film...

Don't miss the opportunity to register for the webinar featuring Sama Alshaibi, hosted by the Center for Middle East Studies. The discussion will revolve around...

Currently on view at the Hatton Gallery at Colorado State University through December 22, Sama Alshaibi’s solo exhibition 'Silsila” explores landscapes in fifteen predominantly Muslim...

We are thrilled to announce that Sama Alshaibi and Sadik Alfraji will be part of 'Iraq: Beyond the Two Rivers ' exhibition, opening this Friday...

We are delighted to share that Sama Alshaibi will be giving an artist talk at Duke University.⁠ ⁠ Sama Alshaibi works between photography, video and...

We are excited to announce that Sama Alshaibi will be giving an artist talk at the Leyburn Library on Monday, 25th of September.⁠ ⁠ Don't...

We are pleased to announce that Sama Alshaibi has received an ArtMatters “Artist2Artist” fellowship, and named a Betty Parsons Fellow. Working across geographies and mediums,...

Sama Alshaibi’s work ‘The Cessation - Al-Takwir, The Folding Up’ (2019), is currently on view at ASU Art Museum, as part of the ‘Crafting Resistance’...

We are excited to announce that Sama Alshaibi's catalogue, Tell it to the River, featuring every single work from her previous show at Maraya Art...

We are happy to share that Sama Alshaibi is exhibiting her work Eternal Love Song and An Act of Possession as part of the Being...

We are happy to announce Sama Alshaibi's solo exhibition at Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah. 'Tell It to the River ' is a mid-career survey...

We are proud to share that Sama Alshaibi has a solo exhibition 'Generation Arter Generation' at Phoenix Art Museum. Sama Alshaibi is the recipient of...

Sama Alshaibi was awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, long considered one of the most important grants series in the art world and the humanities and...

Sama Alshaibi is one of the sixty featured artists in the upcoming State of the Art 2020 exhibition at both the Momentary and Crystal Bridges...

Sama Alshaibi's photogravure 'Eternal Love Song' was selected to be displayed at the 'Migrations and Meaning (s) in Art', a collective exhibition curated by scholar...

The Review Santa Fe Photo Festival is a unique expo/exhibition style format displaying the work of 100 documentary and fine art photographers with a lively...

Sama Alshaibi and Sadik Kwaish Alfraji will be participating at the 13th edition of the Cairo International Biennale opening from June 10. ⠀ Artistic Director...

Sama Alshaibi’s solo exhibition Until Total Liberation is on view at Artpace San Antonio, USA till 12 May, 2019. The body of work exhibited in...

Sama Alshaibi was chosen as the recipient of the Spring 2019 International Artist-in-Residence program by Artpace San Antonio, Texas. Three times a year, Artpace invites...

Sadik Alfraji, Sama Alshaibi, Tammam Azzam and Rula Halawani will be participating in the exhibition Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World at the Katzen...

Sama Alshaibi will be participating in the round table discussion at Lenfest Center, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York City, on 28 September...

Sama Alshaibi is participating in the 8th edition of the Breda Photo festival To Infinity and Beyond; it’s theme circulating around the impact of science...

Sama Alshaibi will be part of the Arizona Biennial 2018, contributing two of her photographs titled Obverse Discursive, 2016 and Arabic and Cuneiform: To Read...

Sama Alshaibi will be participating with her video-still Together Apart in the aCinema production An Answer Without A Question, screening 6 April 2018. The viewing...

Sama Alshaibi is speaking at the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) 55th Annual Conference, Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community, Nationhood, which addresses questions of globalisation,...

Sama Alshaibi, Tammam Azzam, and Rula Halawani are participating in Zeytinburnu International Photography Festival (ZFotoFest) in Istanbul Turkey. Organised by Zeytinburnu municipality, ZFotoFest is a...

Sama Alshaibi has been awarded two production grants, Visual Arts AFAC Grant - Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (2017) and Artist Research and Development...

Sama Alshaibi will be participating with video works from her Silsila series in Timeless Fragments: chromatic vibration between water and earth, an exhibition in the...

Sama Alshaibi is part of Tucson Museum of Art’s exhibition Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor from 21 October 2017 - 18 February 2018. Dress Matters:...

Sama Alshaibi is part of the Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series at the CSGS, New York University giving an artist talk on 10 October from 6-8...

Sama Alshaibi presents works from her Silsila series at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in a solo exhibition running until 24 December 2017,...

Sama Alshaibi has been awarded an Arab Fund for Arts and Culture grant for her forthcoming project Carry Over, a multimedia series that, according to...

This summer Sama Alshaibi is included in Suspended Territories: Artists from the Middle East and North Africa at Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, and...

Khaled Jarrar and Sama Alshaibi are featured in No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, a collective exhibition organised by Fawza Kabra for the...

Sama Alshaibi is featured in an exhibition of works from The Nadour Collection at the Museum De Wieger in the Netherlands. Organised by Diana Wiegersma,...

Sama Alshaibi will present a Visiting Artist's talk in the Department of Art and Art History at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. The liberal arts...

Sama Alshaibi is included in the 2017 Honolulu Biennial, which opens on 8 March with a lineup of artists working in a variety of media...

Throughout January 2017, Sama Alshaibi is featured in the online exhibition Subversion. Appearing on www.dont-smile.com, this month-long, collective exhibition highlights self-portraits by female photographers. Alshaibi...

Sama Alshaibi’s Dhikr, Baraka, Muraqaba and Tariqah are currently highlighted on Ibraaz, the premier online platform for contemporary art from the Middle East and North...

Sama Alshaibi will participate in Krisis, a group exhibition to be held at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham from 28 October to 9 December 2016. Curated...

Sama Alshaibi, Ammar Abd Rabbo, and Athier Mousawi have been shortlisted for the 2016 Sovereign MENA Art Prize, organised by the Sovereign Art Foundation in...

Samia Halaby, Sama Alshaibi, and Khaled Jarrar are included in the 3rd edition of the Qalandiya International Biennial, a month long program for contemporary art...

Sama Alshaibi will participate in the 2016 edition of the New York Light Festival, a curated series of screenings and light projections that is organised...

Sama Alshaibi’s critically acclaimed multimedia project Silsila (2009-2016) will be shown in its entirety for the first time at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art...

FotoFest will present its 16th International Biennial of Photography and Mixed Media Arts from March 12 – April 24, 2016 in Houston, Texas, exploring the...

Christie’s Dubai will hold two sales featuring works by twentieth and twenty-first century Middle Eastern artists this March. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Christie’s Dubai,...

Sama Alshaibi, Khaled Hafez and Khaled Jarrar will be taking part in Arab Territories, a residency and exhibition organised on the occasion of the city...

Two video works by Sama Alshaibi and Khaled Jarrar will be presented at the Viva Festival in Malta on 31 August 2015. Alshaibi’s Sweep records...

From 8 May until 4 October, Sama Alshaibi will be featured in Ten: The Exhibition, a group exhibition at the Arab American National Museum in...

The mixed media works of Khaled Hafez, Sama Alshaibi, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Faisal Samra, Tammam Azzam and Ammar Al Beik will be part of View...

Sama Alshaibi has recently been awarded with the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Fellowship, she will be based at the new Palestine Museum in Ramallah where she...

Sama Alshaibi’s work will be on show in Intelligence Report at Peacock Visual Arts Center for Contemporary Art. Organised by curator Jay Murphy, the exhibition...

Sama Alshaibi’s work Birket Siwa (2014) from the Silsila series is being featured in a pop-up fundraiser to raise funds for the Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii’s...

Iraqi-Palestinian artist Sama Alshaibi will be discussing the major themes of her work in an artist talk entitled, 'Sand rushes in: The Desert, the Border,...

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Sama Alshaibi will be speaking at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas) on Saturday March 29th...

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at the 2014 FotoFest Biennial to be held March 15 - April 27 in Houston, Texas U.S.A....

Sama Alshaibi's collaborative work with Dena Al-Adeeb will be part of The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA)'s exhibition at Mana Contemporary entitled Architecture...