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Buthayna ALI
Born 1974, Damascus, Syria
Lives and works in Canada and Syria

Education
2003 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts - Post Diplôma - ENSB-A - Paris (FR)
2001

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts - Diplôma - DNSAP - Paris (FR)
Sorbonne Paris IV History of Islamic Art - DEA - Paris (FR)

1996 Faculty of Fine Arts "Painting department" - Post Graduate Diploma in Fine ART -Damascus (SY)
1995 Faculty of Fine Arts "Painting department" - Graduate in Fine ART - Damascus (SY)

 

Teaching Experience
2002 to 2011 Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department - Professor - Damascus (SY)
1995 - 1996

Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department - Assistant Prof - Damascus (SY)

 

Selection Exhibitions

Collective exhibition:
2011 Ca' Corner della Regina - Fondazione Prada  - until 02-10-2011 Venice (IT)
The Art of writing - Pictures are written Wiesbaden (DE)
2010 Told, Untold, Retold - Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha (QA)
Without distinction of any kind  Trento (IT)
Sharing Waters sauna meets hamam Istanbul (TR)
Arabicity  Beirut (LB)
2009 The Other shadow of the city Jerusalem (PS)
Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin (DE)
2008       11th Cairo Biennale Cairo (EG)
3rd Glow festival forum of light and architecture - with Bayan AlSheikh Eindhoven (NL)
Traversées - ArtParis Paris (FR)
2007 Dar Kalemat Gallery Aleppo (SY)
Darat AlFunun Amman (JO)
10th Istanbul Biennale Istanbul (TR)
Sexy Souks, Point Ephémère organized by the Maison des Cultures du Monde Paris (FR)
2006 Europe art exhibition Geneva (CH)
2004 Brunei Gallery London (UK)
2000 Syrian cultural Centre; with Pierre AlMaari Paris (FR)

Solo exhibitions

2009 Green art Gallery - Bastakiya Art Fair – I’m Ashamed installation Dubai (UAE)
2006 AlRywak Gallery - We installation Damascus (SY)
2003 Atassi Gallery - Promises installation Damascus (SY)
2002 National Museum - Tent installation Damascus (SY)
Caisse d’Epargne Gallery - Bedouin painting Angers (FR)
2001 Mozart Park- Tent installation

Paris

(FR)

 

Selection Lectures, Workshops

2011 Word - Arab Museum of Modern Art - Workshop leader
Cubes -
Arab Museum of Modern Art - Kids workshop leader
Doha (QA)
2010 Arab International University - Faculty of Architecture - Lecture -        Damascus (SY)
2007 Vote - Faculty of Fine Art - Workshop leader, Damascus (SY) Damascus (SY)
10th Istanbul Biennial - Panel Discussion Istanbul (TR)
2004 Goethe institute - Video Art - lecture Damascus  (SY)
2003 4 3 2 Cinema - Goethe institute - Workshop leader Damascus  (SY)


In Collections

2011 Arab Museum of Modern Art "Ywhy!" - Doha (QA)

2010

Arab Museum of Modern Art "I’m Ashamed" - Doha (QA)

2008 Enrico Navarra Gallery "Examples" - Paris (FR)
2007 Darat Al-Funun Foundation "We, Nous, äÍä" - Amman (JO)
  Private Collections - Syria, France, Canada, USA


Bibliography
 
Brochures
2009 "I’m Ashamed" Exhibition brochure - Damascus (SY)
2007 "Buthayna Ali 1999-2007" - Damascus (SY)
2006 "We, Nous, äÍä" Exhibition brochure - Damascus (SY)
2003 "Promises" Exhibition brochure - Damascus (SY)

Collectives Catalogues

2011 Catalogue of The Art of writing - Pictures are written - Wiesbaden (DE)
Catalogue of  Ca' Corner della Regina Fondazione Prada - Venice (IT)
2010 Catalogue of Told, Untold, Retold - Arab Museum of Modern Art - Doha (QA)
Catalogue of Sharing Waters sauna meets hamam Istanbul (TR)
Catalogue of Arabicity  Beirut (LB)
2009 New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Catalogue of Taswir Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin (DE)
2008 Catalogue of 11th Cairo biennial - Cairo (EG)
Catalogue of 10th ArtParis - Paris (FR)
2007 Catalogue of 10th Istanbul Biennale Istanbul (TR)
Exhibition catalogue "the professors of the Fine Arts faculty" - Damascus (SY)
2006

Exhibition catalogue "Painting-Professor the Fine Arts faculty" - Damascus (SY)

2004 Catalogue of Syrian culture week - London (UK)

 

 

 

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