Alymamah Rashed [email protected] | www.alymamahrashed | +965 94499148 Education Parsons School of Design, MFA Fine Arts 2017 -2019 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2012- 2016 BFA Fine Arts (Painting) Honors & Awards Masters Academic ScholarshiP, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education 2017-2019 Professional Development Initiative Program Fellow, 2016-2017 sponsored by: National U.S-Arab Chamber of Commerce Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education Embassy of the State of Kuwait in Washington Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Certificate of Academic Merit, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education 2012 - 2016 School of Visual Arts Deans List 2012-2016 Merit ScholarshiP, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education 2012-2016 Publications Featured in 7 Days: ExPanded Edition · Holly Crawford 2020 AC Books, California, United States “The MetaPhoric Phases of my Collective Body as a Muslima Cyborg” by Alymamah Rashed, Published by Saalt Press Curatorial Brief and Catalogue for Mohamed AL Hemd’s “Halal Nights” Exhibition at CAP Gallery, Kuwait 2019 Featured in Tsquare Magazine Issue #23 2019 Featured in The Beyond Mag Issue 2 2019 Featured in “Convergence” Catalogue curated by Utsa Hazarika 2018 Featured in Sumou Magazine Issue 00 “All The Things We Don’t Feel” 2018 Featured in Air Sheets Publication by Sorry Archive 2017 Designed and illustrated a book cover for Bader Al Sanousi’s Publication 2017 (My Mind Made You Beautiful), Kuwait 2015 Experience Curator and Program Director Novemeber 2020 – April 2021 Sadu House Museum, Kuwait Kuwait University – College of Architecture (Visual Communication Dept) Part Time Teaching Assistant for Dr. Sarah Al Falah’s Product Design Class (Fall and SPring 2019) SePtember 2019 - Present Co- Founder of Beyond The Quarantine, an oPen call for artists, designers and creatives www.beyondthequarantine.com March 2020 Designed Sadu House Website January 2020 – March 2020 Curated Al Muqtataf Exhitbion for the Visual Communication Design Dept 2019 in Kuwait University Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY January 2017 – April 2017 Spring 2017 InternshiP – Drawing and Prints DePartment ● Cataloguing through TMS (The Museum System) ● Transcribing texts/artwork ● Adrian PiPer ● Translating Arabic texts into English ● Ibrahim ElSalahi Sketchbook ● Creating physical object folders for artworks o Creating fact sheets o Collect bibliography o Provide resources ● Research assistant o Fluxus o Adrian PiPer Kai Matsumiya Gallery, October 2016- January 2017 New York, NY ● Art handling (create customized cardboard boxes, Packaging artwork, and assists with installation) ● Creates templates for press releases ● Assists in exhibition oPenings ● Create catalogs for art fairs ● Create a work list/price list ● Upload artwork in multiPle Platforms such as art sPace. ● Enters events and keePing track of everything through google calendar ● Archiving the gallery’s inventory and storage ● Deliver/PickuP artworks ● HelP artists during the Process of installation Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York, NY July – SePtember 2016 ● Operates DroPbox, Artsy.net, Lofty, MailchimP, and Access ● Creates offer pages ● Creates invoices ● Enters events and keePing track of everything through google calendar ● KeePs track of offers ● Sends follow uP emails for Potential clients and dealers ● Packages artworks and prepares them for shipment ● Organizes receiPts ● Opens and closes the gallery ● Organizes the gallery (front desk, office, Private backrooms, etc.) ● Creates templates for press releases ● Edits Press releases ● Edits artists’ statements/texts ● Assists in Placing artworks for exhibitions ● Art handling (ex. Carrying artworks to the gallery sPace) ● Acts as Personal Assistant to the gallery owner o Books flights o Submits Payments o Runs errands “Dig” Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2014 ● Prepared the exhibition space by printing the price, name, title, media, size, and date of each Piece ● Created a sPreadsheet and a catalogue that included all information on the exhibition and Pieces of art ● Set the budget for the exhibition ● Used Venmo to Process financial transactions ● Negotiated with the venue owner to encourage visitors to donate whatever amount of money they’d like to a Preferred charity of the venue owner. ● Rented trucks and Protected the artwork by Packaging them aPProPriately and delivering them straight to the venue. ● Hung the artwork before the exhibition after testing different methods of hanging ● Created a small map of the exhibition to envision the placement of each piece of artwork ● Scheduled and managed A/V and music for the exhibition Summer Intern, Khaleejesque Magazine, Kuwait City, Kuwait 2014 ● Wrote online articles ● Illustrated articles Published in the Summer issue ● Created a sculpture for the magazine’s Summer issue cover ● Attended events including gallery oPenings ● Assisted with selling artists’ artwork Designed invitations for Al Bayan Bilingual School’s art exhibition, Kuwait 2012 Designed brochures for the Kuwait National Assembly’s human rights events, Kuwait 2012 Exhibitions Solo Exhibition in Tabari Art Space March 2021 Dubai, UAE “I Have DisaPPeared into You” 2020 Virtual Solo Exhibition Gallery BAWA, Kuwait “Beneath Them Was Forever” Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Curated by Kathleen Forde httP://amt.Parsons.edu/finearts/2019mfathesis/ 2019 “Zinc-Finger Like Folds” , GrouP Exhibition 2019 Curated by Rae Lavande Pellerin and Paloma Rosenzweig Castillo New York, NY “Convergence”, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School, 2018 New York, NY “EuroPean Literature Night”, Czech Center New York 2018 “How an Artwork Should SPeak”, 25 East Gallery, Parsons School of Design 2018 (My Mind Made You Beautiful) Solo Exhibition at Parsol Projects, 2015 New York, NY “Abstract” Group Exhibition at Parsol Projects, New York, NY 2015 “Dig” Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Radisson Blu Hotel’s grouP exhibition, Kuwait 2012 Al-Bayan Bilingual School annual art exhibition, Hawally, Kuwait 2009-2012 Links/Press https://miilkiina.com/not-so-sexy-with-alymamah-rashed/ https://www.tabariartspace.com/exhibitions/67-alymamah-rashed-solo-solo-exhibition/video/ https://www.tabariartspace.com/press/80-uae-listings-tabari-artspace-alymamah-rashed/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-must-see-middle-eastern-galleries-view-online https://www.tabariartspace.com/artists/109-alymamah-rashed/overview/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCT5sMhZwXQ https://mathqaf.com/2020/12/03/in-conversation-alymamah-rashed/ https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/culture/art/visual-artist-alymamah-rashed-explores-the-third-body https://thevisionaryprojects.com/editorial/alymamah https://www.alyaqazaaljadeeda.com/alymamah-rashed/ https://en.vogue.me/beauty/arab-artists-reimagine-fragrances/ httPs://hyPerallergic.com/494032/Parsons-new-school-beneath-them-was-forever-2019-mfa-thesis-exhibition/ httPs://www.artsy.net/show/essa-muhammad-selections-from-beneath-them-was-forever httPs://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7wOdhyZlk httPs://www.newschool.edu/Parsons/student-work/?id=17179880279 Guest Speaker Lectures Guest Lecturer Dr. Banan Al Ansari’s “Design and Criticism” Visual Communication Design Department College of Architecture Kuwait University 2021 Guest Lecturer and Guest Mentor Dr. Sarah Al Falah’s Product Design Visual Communication Design Department College of Architecture Kuwait University 2021 Guest Lecturer William Anderson “Contemporary Art” College of Arts and Sciences American University of Kuwait 2021 .