BIOGRAPHY
Sabiha Al Khemir is a Tunisian-American artist, writer and curator whose work has been exhibited internationally and acquired by numerous private collections. She started making art at an early age and uses an array of mediums: pen and ink, acrylic, and organic materials. She has illustrated several books including: Le nuage amoureux, The Island of Animals, and her own adaptation of Kalila and Dimna: Fables Across Time. She has also published two novels: Waiting in the Future for the Past to Come and The Blue Manuscript. She has lived and worked in the United States, Europe, North Africa and the Gulf and was the founding director of the I. M. Pei designed Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar. She has curated Islamic art exhibitions internationally and currently lives in New York City.
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Al Khemir has a PhD from London University.
Her artwork has been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; British Museum, Kufa Gallery and Brunai Gallery, London; Galerie de l’Information, Tunis; National Museum, Bahrain, National Museum of Women in the Arts,Washington DC; American Folk Art Museum, New York; Margo Gallery, Texas; Washington Art Association, CT.
She has been honored by The United States President’s Arts and Humanities Committee.
STATEMENT
My cross-cultural background inspires my art as does Islamic art. This is reflected in my use of color, rhythm, and calligraphic forms. My work is diverse in theme and medium, most recently in “The Samara Series” which uses helicopter seeds, exploring the themes of flight, color and nature. The seeds came from many parts of the world—Spain, USA, UK, Ukraine etc. The works form an emotional journey with diversity and unity.
