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Saudi Artist Portrays Riyadh’s Transformation through Paintings

Saudi artist Alia Ahmad will hold her first solo exhibition in the UAE at Lawrie Shabibi gallery in Dubai, from September 18 to October 22.

Themed ‘Aspects’, the exhibition will showcase a promising collection of floral and geometric shapes, characterized by tonal contrasts, modulated colors and gestural forms. Ahmed used these colors and contrasts specifically to depict themes of growth and transformation in her home city, Riyadh.

Saudi Artist Portrays Riyadh’s Transformation through Paintings
Paintings by Saudi artist Alia Ahmad

Some artists believe that Ahmad’s paintings encompass a visual language that is as much linguistic as it is impressionistic. She strives to balance the inherent readability of her work with the internal translation that occurs when someone is brought into her colorful world.

Saudi Artist Portrays Riyadh’s Transformation through Paintings
Paintings by Saudi artist Alia Ahmad

Born in Riyadh in 1996, Ahmad graduated from King’s College London with a BA in Digital Culture in 2018. With a color palette influenced by Riyad’s landscape, Alia has dedicated her art to exploring the convergence of memory, place, and landscape.

Saudi Artist Portrays Riyadh’s Transformation through Paintings
Paintings by Saudi artist Alia Ahmad

Her solo exhibitions include Albion Jeune, London, UK (2024); White Cube, Paris, France (2024); Massimo de Carlo, Paris, France (2023), Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, KSA (2022) and Gallery Bawa, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2021). She has exhibited in several group exhibitions including ‘After Rain’ at the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh, KSA (2024); ‘In the Shadow’ at White Cube, London, UK (2023); ‘Considering Female Abstraction’ at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA (2023), ‘Memory Deposit’, Fenaa Al-Awwal, Riyadh, KSA (2022) and ‘Make It Public: Memory Collective’, Design Museum, London, UK (2020), among others.

Saudi Artist Portrays Riyadh’s Transformation through Paintings
Paintings by Saudi artist Alia Ahmad

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