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Aseel AlYaqoub is a research-based, interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work spans drawing, printmaking, video, sculpture, and installation. Her practice interrogates the complexities of national identity and post-colonial states, focusing on how nations, after gaining independence, often reattach themselves to former imperial powers. Through archival engagement and critical inquiry, AlYaqoub explores how political narratives and cultural memory are shaped, using her work to question inherited state-building methodologies and challenge established historical representations.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Bildmuseet Museum, Sweden; Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, KSA; Foreman Gallery, Canada; Art Claims Impulse, Berlin; Karachi Biennale, Pakistan; and The Media Majlis, Qatar. She has exhibited at the Sultan Gallery and Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait. Recent commissions include Desert X AlUla 2024 and co-curating the Kuwait Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.
AlYaqoub's essays and artworks have been published in Architecture of the Territory: Constructing National Narratives in the Arab World (Collective for Architecture), Deserts Are Not Empty (Samia Henni), and Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture Since the Mid-Twentieth Century (Laura Hindelang). She has presented her research at Cornell University, the National Museum of Qatar, Abu Dhabi Art, and the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.
AlYaqoub’s work is in collections, including the Barjeel Art Foundation and the Jameel Art Collection.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Bildmuseet Museum, Sweden; Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, KSA; Foreman Gallery, Canada; Art Claims Impulse, Berlin; Karachi Biennale, Pakistan; and The Media Majlis, Qatar. She has exhibited at the Sultan Gallery and Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait. Recent commissions include Desert X AlUla 2024 and co-curating the Kuwait Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.
AlYaqoub's essays and artworks have been published in Architecture of the Territory: Constructing National Narratives in the Arab World (Collective for Architecture), Deserts Are Not Empty (Samia Henni), and Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture Since the Mid-Twentieth Century (Laura Hindelang). She has presented her research at Cornell University, the National Museum of Qatar, Abu Dhabi Art, and the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.
AlYaqoub’s work is in collections, including the Barjeel Art Foundation and the Jameel Art Collection.
Education
2013 - 2015 MFA Degree. Pratt Institute, NY, USA
2007 - 2009 BA (Hons) Degree, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2003 - 2007 RIBA Part 1, AA School of Architecture, London, UK
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2013 - 2015 MFA Degree. Pratt Institute, NY, USA
2007 - 2009 BA (Hons) Degree, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2003 - 2007 RIBA Part 1, AA School of Architecture, London, UK
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