MassArt is pleased to welcome Alia Farid to the Spring 2024 Fine Arts Lecture Series. Farid  joins the 2D and 3D Fine Arts departments, the Graduate Programs, and the MassArt community on Wednesday, April 17 at 12pm in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall.

Alia Farid (b.1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has had solo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel (Basel), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (Missouri), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), and Portikus (Frankfurt am Main). Recent and upcoming group shows include participation the Diriyah Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Bienal de São Paulo, Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001 in MoMA PS1, Yokohama Triennale and Asia Pacific Triennial. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions in Chisenhale Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum Houston in partnership with Rivers Institute, CAC Passerelle and Detroit Institute of Arts.

Farid has a BFA from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), a MS from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge) and a MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). She received The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award in 2023 and is currently the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2023-2024)

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image Details: Alia Farid, In Lieu of What Is, 2022