Alia Farid (born 1985) is a Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican visual artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program at MIT, Cambridge, MA, and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents at MACBA, Barcelona. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include ''In Lieu of What Was'' at Portikus, Frankfurt and ''Alia Farid, a solo exhibition'' at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Known informally as the CAM St. Louis, the museum is located at 3750 Washington Boulevard in the Grand Center Arts District. The buildin ...

. Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, the 12th

Gwangju Biennale The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Gwangju Biennale is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Founda ...

, Sharjah Biennial 14, the 2nd Lahore Biennale, and ''Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001'' at MoMA PS1. In Switzerland, she first exhibited her new three bodies of artwork from February 11- to May 2022. She installed different water bottles in Kunsthalle Basel and found textile harnesses there. Farid is participating in the

2022 Whitney Biennial The 2022 Whitney Biennial, titled ''Quiet as It's Kept'', is the Whitney Museum's art biennial, hosted between April and September 2022. Described by Artnews as the "most closely watched contemporary art exhibition in the United States", the b ...

titled "Quiet as It's Kept" curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.

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