Amalia Mourad

BIO

Amalia Mourad (b. 1992) was raised in Berkeley, California. Mourad uses the figure and portraiture to explore issues of gender, alienation, trauma, and desire. In 2013, Mourad graduated with a painting major from the College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara. In 2016, Mourad obtained an MFA Fine Arts degree from SVA in New York. After graduating she co-founded the artist collective Fruit Exchange Studios in Brooklyn. Mourad has shown her work in New York, California, Miami, Montreal, Madrid, Berlin, and Lisbon and been represented at art fairs such as PULSE and Spring Break Art Show. Mourad has participated in four artist residencies: Espositivo (Madrid, 2017) PADA Studios (Barreiro, 2020 & 2022), and Zaratan (Lisbon, 2022). She has had two solo shows in Lisbon, Roots in the Unknown (PADA Studios, 2020) and Iron Age (Zaratan, 2023). Her work has been featured in numerous publications including as a Noteworthy artist in New American Paintings. Mourad lived in Berlin from 2018-2022 where she showed her work in various galleries and learned German. In addition to her visual art practice, Mourad has curated shows and acted in several professional plays as part of the acclaimed Ragged Wing Ensemble, and studied classical guita...

Masters in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York (2016)

BA in painting, University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies (“a graduate school for undergraduates”) (2013)

California Arts Scholar, California State Summer School for the Arts (2009)

Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Iron Age, Zaratan, Lisbon
2020 Roots in the Unknown, PADA Studios, Lisbon
2013 Personal Devices, College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Mid-Residency Show, College of Creative Studies
Santa Barbara, CA

Group Exhibitions:
2022 WOW NOW, Setareh, Berlin
2021 Skin Deep, Monopol & Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
2021 Lusus Naturae, BcmA Gallery, Berlin
2020 +1, Kwadrat, Berlin
2020 Nebulous, Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2020 Paulo, PADA Studios, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 I Wanted to Live in This Land, Centrumberlin, Berlin
2019 Common Ground, Kühnemannstr. 51, Berlin
2019 +1, Safe Gallery, Berlin
2018 Fish, Family Gallery, Montreal
2018 Portable Modernism, Life Lessons, Rockaway, NY
2017 Post-Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2017 ATM • Cigarettes • Flowers • Lottery, Space Heater Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY
2016 PULSE, Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
2016 Popular Culture Is Where the Pedagogy Is: The Hole, New York, NY
2016 PULSE, Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2015 Patriartsy, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2015 Play Me a Game, The New School, New York, NY
2015 So Hot Right Now, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2014 12...