About
Jowhara AlSaud (b. 1978) Holds a BA in Film Theory from Wellesley College and an MFA in Fine Arts from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University. AlSaud was runner-up for the 2008 Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize, Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2010: Emerging Photographers finalist and The International Photography Awards 2010 finalist. She has exhibited her work internationally in group and solo shows, most recently in a group show at the Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China, Scope NYC 2011 art fair and Scope Miami 2010. AlSaud also had solo exhibitions at The Sultan Gallery in Kuwait , Zoom Art Miami, Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam and New York. She has also exhibited at international art fairs in New York, Miami, Chicago, Palm Beach, Paris, Mexico, Dubai and Basel, Switzerland. Her work is part of the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, The Greenbox Museum, Amsterdam, as well as many private collections across Europe, the US and the Middle East.
Jowhara AlSaud (b. 1978) Holds a BA in Film Theory from Wellesley College and an MFA in Fine Arts from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University. AlSaud was runner-up for the 2008 Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize, Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2010: Emerging Photographers finalist and The International Photography Awards 2010 finalist. She has exhibited her work internationally in group and solo shows, most recently in a group show at the Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China, Scope NYC 2011 art fair and Scope Miami 2010. AlSaud also had solo exhibitions at The Sultan Gallery in Kuwait , Zoom Art Miami, Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam and New York. She has also exhibited at international art fairs in New York, Miami, Chicago, Palm Beach, Paris, Mexico, Dubai and Basel, Switzerland. Her work is part of the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, The Greenbox Museum, Amsterdam, as well as many private collections across Europe, the US and the Middle East.
News
FACE OFF: censoring ' your friends and neighbors'
A review of Your Friends and Neighbors in Arab News
Censoured Faces Without Features
Profile in Saudi Gazette. April 2011.
Uncovering and Unconventional Framework
Profile in Design Magazine, Issue 16, March/April, 2011.
Whitewall Magazine
Review of Zoom Contemporary Art Fair @ Art Basel Miami, 2010
The New York Photo Review
A review of the exhibition at Witzenhausen Gallery, NYC.
Blancopop.com
A profile in Blancopop Magazine.
IPA 2010
Selected for the Best of Show exhibition for the 2010 International Photography Awards
V&A
Two photographs now part of the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection.
IPA Finalist
2nd place in the Fine Arts (alternative) category of the International Photography Awards, 2010.
Blend\
Profiled in Blend\ Magazine online.
Asharq Al-Awsat
A review of Grey Borders/Grey Frontiers in a leading Saudi Newspaper
A review of A New Angle @ Schneider Gallery on view through July 3rd.
Flash Forward 2010
- Finalist in Magenta Foundation's annual Flash Forward Festival and upcoming publication.
American Reconstruction @ Winkleman Gallery
- A review by Joerg Colberg for Conscientious
Aperture Presents: Timeframes
- An Artist Talk with Jowhara AlSaud @ The New York Photo Festival, 2010
Featured in Beautiful/Decay, April, 2010
Featured in Resource Magazine, Spring 2010.
Featured in Contemporary Practice Magazine March 2010.
Photo-Op, 14th Annual Exhibition
- Honorable Mention. Photographic Center Northwest, 2009
Profiled in Campaign Magazine, Middle East, 2009
Featured in Next Level 17 - Persian Gulf Edition. 2009
Aperture Portfolio Prize
- Runner up for Aperture Portfolio Prize 2008
Hey, Hot Shot! (volume iv, edition ii)
– Honorable Mention. Jen Beckman Gallrey, 2008
