Alia Farid
The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Exhibition
Alia Farid is the recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2023. Here she is at the opening of her exhibition Elsewhere at Chisenhale Gallery in London in November 2023.
Photo: Genevieve Reeves / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Alia Farid is the third recipient of The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award. The Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist works with a variety of different media, including textiles, film and sculpture.
Alia Farid's complex work mediates between the past and the present and, in a poetic processing, draws out omitted histories that push against standard narratives. She explores questions of conflict and control and how power and violence are inflicted on nature and people.
We are proud to welcome Alia Farid into the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Programme and present her work in Norway and the Nordic for the first time.
Alia Farid (b.1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). Farid is a 2023-24 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
Alia Farid, In Lieu of What Is, 2022. Installation photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
Alia Farid is the recipient of The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2023.
Photo: Johanne Nyborg / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
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Alia Farid (b.1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). Farid is a 2023-24 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), Portikus (Frankfurt am Main) and now Chisenhale Gallery (London). She has forthcoming solo exhibitions at CAC Passerelle (Brest) and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo), and she is amongst the shortlisted artists for the Artes Mundi 10 Prize. -
The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Programme is a partnership between the Lise and Arne Wilhelmsen family and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. It was established to continue and honour Lise Wilhelmsen's (1936–2019) commitment to the visual arts. The family's commitment to the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is confirmed for the subsequent eight editions, spanning 16 years, with the intention of an extension of further 16 years.
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Caroline Ugelstad and co-curator María Inés Rodríguez.
