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Multidisciplinary artist

Education

2022-2023 Re-imagine your city- International design Lab - Berlin, Germany
2014-2018 Bachelor degree in Fine Arts, Sculpture Major - Concordia University- Montreal, Canada  
2008-2013  Bachelor degree in Architecture – Damascus University- Damascus, Syria

Art Residencies

2025 “World cities”- Artemed residence of mediterranean artists- Paris,France
2023 Re-imagine your city- International design Lab- Summer school- Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 Art Retreat: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)- Hammana Artist House- Hammana, Lebanon
2021 Sculpture Quadrennial Riga- remote public art residency- Riga, Latvia
2021 Production residency for LOOKUP public art project by ART REACH, Hosted at Coculture- Berlin, Germany.
2020 Atelier La Coulée residency program- Foundry & Metalshop- Montreal, Canada.
2020 Net//Work Digital Arts Residency- DAS digital art studios- Belfast, Northern Ireland. Held at MOMENTUM Berlin, Germany
      

Public Art Festivals

2025 Comic Invasion Berlin - Berlin, Germany
2024 Sculpture Quadrennial Riga - Riga, Latvia
2021 Quand l’art Prend L’air - “Forging truths Weighing relief”- Park Vinet- Montreal, Canada
2021 Journey art festival- “Occupy”- Manchester, Portsmouth, Leicester, UK

Exhibitions

Solo shows
2022 In Memory of Patriarchy - Centre Culturel George Vanier- Montreal, Canada
2019 In Memory of Patriarchy -  Gallery 392rmeil393, Curator: Dima Matta-   Beirut, Lebanon                           

Group shows
2025 
Neukölln Art Prize exhibition - Saalbau Gallery- Berlin, Germany
2024 Fight for kindness - Cairo Business park- Cairo, Egypt
2024 Passages - Gallery graumerai- Berlin, Germany
2023 The Journey after the scars - Curated by Zena El Abdalla and Chiara Guidoni- Perugia,Italy 
2021 Net//Work Online exhibition- Curated and hosted by DAS digital arts studios and British Council
2021 WE - Foundation Rad Hourani- Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 Seed Bomb- Making Art Making Politics. Collaboration with Mauricio Aristizabal, Parc Jean Drapeau- Montreal, Canada
2018 Bronze and Aluminum Showcase- Concordia University - Curator: Natalie Nadeau, Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 Love letters to meem, Station Beirut , Curator: Dima Matta- Beirut, Lebanon                                  
2018 Festival de la Solidarite International, Greek Workers association- Montreal (QC), Canada
2017 1/4 Group Show, VAV Gallery, Concordia University-  Montreal (QC), Canada
2016 Fragments,  Main line Gallery- Montreal (QC), Canada

 
Grants 

2025 Neukölln Art Prize Winner (3rd prize) - Berlin, Germany
2024 Culture move Europe - Travel grant- Goethe institute
2021 INITIAL special grant - Akademie der Künste - Berlin, Germany
2021 Laboratory of arts - Ettijahat Independent culture- Brussels, Belgium
2021 Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) “Quand l’art Prend L’air”- Public art Project- Montreal, Canada
2020 British Council grant for Net//Work Digital Arts Residency
2018 FASA Winter student grant - Concordia University- Montreal, QC, Canada
2017 Outdoor sculpture competition– Public art installation, Concordia University - Montreal, QC, Canada. 
 
 
Artist talks, Podcasts, and Workshops

2021 Tashweesh – Conversations and Alliances in Feminism- Artist talk and conversation at TASHWEESH Festival- a multi-locations art festival- Online
2021 Podcast guest speaker, series: Trajectories- Host and Director: Mojeanne Sarah Behzadi- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts MMFA-         https://www.mbam.qc.ca/fr/trajectoires/ - Montreal, Canada 
2021 ‘Drag them Patriarchs'- Artist talk at Symposium “Across Borders: Body&Self”- Coculture - Berlin, Germany.
2021 2021 Atelier La Coulée Podcast “D’un studio à l'Autre” - Conception, scriptwriting and guest speaker- Funded by CALQ and CAM- https://atelierlacoulee.org/balado/ - Montreal, Canada.
2021 Women Now Development - Position: Artistic workshops creator and facilitator, Online workshops. 
2019 Artist talk and conversation at American University of Beirut, graduate class “Feminism and gender studies”- Professor: Sarah Mourad-  Beirut, Lebanon
 

Press
CHK, Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2025: Zwischen Fürsorge, Identität und Ausgrenzung: Kunst, die Fragen stellt, art-in- berlin - 2025
Yi Ling Pan, Die Fragilität der menschlichen Seele, Taz.de - 2025
Sophie She. Meet the Artist Tackling Societal Issues With Humour (and Dinosaurs), The Sandy Times - 2024
Maghie Ghali, " A ghoulish address to the patriarchy", The Daily Star Lebanon - 2019
Alaa Rashidi,  "ذكور السلطوية.. كائنات هزلية آيلة للانقراض", Almodon - 2019
Chiri Choukeir- 'In Memory of Patriarchy:' A personal celebration through art , AN-NAHAR - 2019
Ahmad Mouhsen- ضفة ثالثة, ريتا أديب.. الذكورية في محطاتها الطويلة Alaraby aljadeed - 2019                            

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