Shadia Alam is a Saudi plastic artist, born in 1960 in Al-Masfalah neighborhood in Makkah.
her career
Shadia holds a BA in English Art and Literature from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.
Her artistic career began in the early nineties, when she participated in several different national exhibitions. She is a member of both the “House of Fine Artists” in Jeddah, and the “House of Photographers” in Jeddah.
She has several personal exhibitions, including: “Negatives No More” at the “Kunst” Museum in Germany in 2005, and “Everything Has Changed” at the “Mobernas Museum” in France in 2004.
At the Italian Venice Biennale in 2011, Shadia exhibited the brass sculpture “The Black Arch” with her sister Rajaa Alem, in the pavilion of her country of origin, which was the first to participate in the Venice Biennale.
Shadia participated with her works in international exhibitions with leading international artists, in Paris, Venice, Bonn, Istanbul, Shanghai and Dubai, and this moved her to achieve her most important presence in the British Museum in London to display her work entitled “Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam” (Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam). ), which increased its aesthetics by displaying photographic images working with collage techniques and pop art, while listening to audio recordings of the Ihram takbeers and meeting the pilgrims, and documentaries, manuscripts, textiles, folk clothes, and the formation of pandals increased it with more artistic brilliance.
Shadia resides in Jeddah and Paris
