EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
  • About
    • BIO
    • CV
  • Work
    • 2022 >
      • Autobiography 2022
      • 2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College
    • 2021 >
      • 'I can't breathe' 2021
      • collaboration with Life Water 2021
      • Collaboration with Swatch 2021
    • 2020 Isolation Art
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013 >
      • Re-Mapping the Wall 2013
      • Re-Mapping House 11, 2013
      • Re-Mapping the Office 2013
      • Night Shadows 2013
      • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
      • Remapping Africa 2013
      • Blue Freedom 2013
      • My Phone’s Diary 2013
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
    • Collage
  • Video
  • Press
  • News
  • Contact
SOLO EXHIBITION
2017 Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Blue Freedom, Curated by: Blair Murphy, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC, USA.
2012 Ebtisam Abdulaziz, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2009 Ebtisam Abdulaziz, The Third Line at Bastakiya Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
2007 Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Sharjah Arab Contemporary Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Empowerment Exhibition at The Kunst museum Wolfsburg, Germany
 
2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College, Takoma park/ Silver Spring campus. 
2021 Between the Sky and the Earth: contemporary Art from the UAE, The middle East institute, Washington, DC.
2021 WPA , Auction. Washington, DC.
2020-2021 Group Exhibition, Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19, Middle East institute, Washington DC, US.
2020 Love 4 Immigrants Virtual Art Healing Speaker Series & Exhibition, DC.
2020 The By the People X Monochrome collective Art Fair, Washington, DC
2019 AlBurda Endowment exhibition, Islamic art. Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi.
2019 Art Abu Dhabi, lead the visual campaign.
2019 contemporary Performance, Group Show, Curated by: Kalup Linzy, The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida.
2019 WPA , Auction. Washington, DC.
2018 Tribe: contemporary photography from the Arab world, American University Museum At the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC. 
2018 From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi: work from MACBA art collection in Dialogue with the Emirates, group show, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhai, UAE.
2018 Gateway, Group show, Curated by: Maya Allison, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Hall X3, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2017 UPROOT Group Show, Curated by Gabriel de Guzman, Smack Mellon Gallery, NY, USA.
2017 Show at Arab Guld State Institute in Washington. DC. Gulf Arts & Culture Symposium.
2017 The Creative Act, Exhibition of work from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2017 Group Exhibition “But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, At NYUAD Art Gallery, AbuDhabi, UAE.
2016 Group Exhibition (Defy/ Define) at Transformer Gallery, Washington, Dc, USA.
2016 Art Talk and exhibition at Rhizome DC, Washington, DC, USA.
2016 Group exhibition Relevant Notes, june –july, Cara Gallery NY, USA.
2015 Emirates arts society annual exhibition, Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2014 On Site,NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE . November 1, 2014 - January 17, 2015
2014 Past Forward, contemporary art from the Emirates, Cafritz Galleries, White-Meyer House, 1624 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009
2014 FotoFest Biennial, VIEW FROM INSIDE: Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Mixed Media Art, the fifteenth international Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art in Houston, Texas.
2014 Summer Group Exhibition at the third line, Dubai.
2014 FIAC, Art Fair, Third line Gallery booth, Paris, France.
2013 ‘Three Generations’ Marks the First-Sotheby’s London ,UK,
2013 'Emirati Expressios'- Realised- Manarat Al Saadiyat , Abu Dhabi- U.A.E.
2013 "The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric"- Maraya Art Center, Sharjah- U.A.E.
2012 Twenty Five Years of Creativity, Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2012 Arab Express, a group exhibition at The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2012 Inventing The World: The Artists as a Citizen, Benin Biennial 2012, Kora Centre, Benin
2012 Beyond The Frame, Residence of U.S Ambassador Michael Corbin, USA
2012 The 30th Emirates Fine Art Society’s Annual Exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2011 The Heart of Phoenix: Art and Culture of the United Arab Emirates-Sharjah, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
2011 Roaming Images, Maraya Art Centre Al Qasba in collaboration with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece.
2011 Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2010 (Sharjah –Art from the Emirates) Group Exhibition at Denmark National
Museum, Copenhagen.
2009 Biladi, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE It’s Not You It’s Me, Inaugural UAE Pavillon at 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2009 Emirati Expressions, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2008 No Such Place (2), Photographic exhibition, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, USA Bahrain Culture Festival, Al 2008 Rewaq Gallery, Manama, Bahrain
2008 UAE House, XVA at the Creek Art Fair, Al Bastakiya, Dubai, UAE
2008 New Faces-New Visions Exhibition, DCTAC, Dubai, UAE
2007 Shalom: Post-card Exhibition, Christ Church, Contemporary Art Space, Gosford, Australia
2007 Self-Representation in the Arabian Gulf, Virginia Commonwealth Arts University, Doha, Qatar
2007 Portrait: Eight UAE Painters, Total Arts Gallery- Dubai, UAE
2007 Minus Reality, Art Attack Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2006 Nafas Exhibition, IFA, Berlin, Stuttgart, Germany
2006 Belief, 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore 2005 Sharjah Biennial 7, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2006 Languages of the Desert Exhibition, Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany
2004 LINE Exhibition, with Mohammed Kazem, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2001 Emirates Art Society Annual Exhibitions, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE

ART RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College, Takoma Park/ Silver spring( January 23-May 20)

2018 Art OMI- international artist program, NY.
2015 Artist in Residence at The League Residency at Vyt.
2013 Sikka art, AiR (Artist in Residance), AlFahidi, Dubai
  
COMMISION PROJECTS
Collaboration with Swatch to create two designs artwork for Swatch X You customization platform.
Collaboration with Life WTR, on their 3rd lifewter bottle design for Expo2020 Dubai.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Guggenheim director on time frame for Abu Dhabi museum and latest Saadiyat exhibition http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/art/guggenheim-director-on-time-frame-for-abu-dhabi-museum-and-latest-saadiyat-exhibition
2017 A new exhibition at NYU Art Gallery in Abu Dhabi surveys one of the most important creative communities in UAE history http://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/art/exhibitions/a-uae-underground
2016 7 Exciting Artists in the UAE, Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com/articles/7-exciting-artists-in-the-uae-1459456113
2016 Women at the Top, Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6ce4e150-e460-11e5-a09b-1f8b0d268c39.html
2012 Ebtisam Abdulaziz: Contemporary Emirati Conceptual Artist, AMA, January 2012
2011 Simpson, Colin, The National, Sharjah Biennale Enters Last Weekend with Workshops, pg 3, May 13, 2011 Simpson, Colin, The National, Sharjah Biennale Put Women in the Picture, pg. 5, April 12, 2011
2010 Smith, Syliva, BBC, Online 0TUwww.bbc.comU0T
Johnson, Alice, Gulf News, Berlin-Dubai Cultural Festival Launched, Online 0TUwww.gulfnews.comU0T
Moon, Timur, The National, Arts & Life, Archive UAE, November 2, 2010, pg. 1, 3
2009 The Guardian, United Arab Emirates Confronts Stereotypes in Venice Biennale Debut, June 4, 2009
Universe in Universe, Venice Biennale: It’s Not You, It’s Me, Online 0TUhttp://universes-in- universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2009/tour/united_arab_emiratesU0T
Patel, Dave, Blank Canvas, w Magazine, pg 58 – 60, June 19, 2009
Kadry, Mohamed, Life in a Bag, Khaleej Times, March 20, 2009
Mosey, Karen Anne, The Sum of it All is About Bagging it Right, Khaleej Times, March 20 2009 Lake, Ed, Curator Says Pavilion will Challenge Cliches About UAE, The National, January 20
2008 Gulf News Supplement, Dubai Next, Dubai Now: Short Films and Video from the UAE, created by Bidoun Magazine, July 2008, pg. 9
 
PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES
Ebtisam Abdul-Aziz, Catalogue for Solo Exhibition, April 2007
Ebtisam Abdul-Aziz, Catalogue for Solo Exhibition, April 2012
 
AFFILIATIONS
2013 Among the list of the 100 most powerful Arab women, www.arabianbusiness.com/100-most-powerful-arab-women-2013-491497.html?view=profile&itemid=491432#.U6SZuU2KAcA
2010 Art Centre Manager, Sharjah Ladies Club, Sharjah, UAE
2007 Member, Emirates photography competition jury, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Member, Emirates Foundation Panel for Art Program Grant, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2006 Participant, Seminar with Department of Culture and Information, Directorate of Arabic Art, Art Center, UAE
Assistant Curator, Window Exhibition: 16 UAE Artists, Total Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2005 Member since 2004, Al Taskeel Editors Magazine, Fine Art Society, UAE
1999 Member, Emirates Fine Art Society, Sharjah, UAE.
Member, Dubai Youth Theater & Art Atelier, Dubai UAE
 
ACQUISITIONS
Guggenheim Museum collection, Abdu Dhbai.UAE.
Collection of Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
Arab Gulf State institute in Washington DC.
Renaut Collection, France.
Ministry of Culture & Youth, Abu Dhabi, UAE
ADMAF,AbuDhabi Music & Arts Foundation, UAE.
The Emirates Investment Bank private collection, Dubai, UAE.
Private collection of H. H. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,, UAE Minister foreign affairs.
Private art collection of H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan.
Collection of Barjeel Art Foundation, personal art collection of Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi.
Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE.
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), Art Bank.
 
AWARDS:
2012 1st Prize, Emirates fine arts society annual Exhibition, Sharjah Contemporary Art Museum, UAE
2013 Among the list of the 100 most powerful Arab women, http://www.arabianbusiness.com/100-most-powerful-arab-women-2013-491497.html?view=profile&itemid=491432#.U6SZuU2KAcA
2014 2nd Prize, Emirates fine arts society annual Exhibition, Sharjah contemporary art Museum, UAE.


©  2022 EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
  • About
    • BIO
    • CV
  • Work
    • 2022 >
      • Autobiography 2022
      • 2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College
    • 2021 >
      • 'I can't breathe' 2021
      • collaboration with Life Water 2021
      • Collaboration with Swatch 2021
    • 2020 Isolation Art
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013 >
      • Re-Mapping the Wall 2013
      • Re-Mapping House 11, 2013
      • Re-Mapping the Office 2013
      • Night Shadows 2013
      • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
      • Remapping Africa 2013
      • Blue Freedom 2013
      • My Phone’s Diary 2013
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
    • Collage
  • Video
  • Press
  • News
  • Contact