Alia Ali (1985) is a

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

-Bosnian-US multimedia artist whose work explores cultural binaries and confronts conflicted notions surrounding gender, citizenship. colonization diaspora, migration and Yemeni Futurism Working within a multitude of mediums, including language, photography, sculpture, video, and installation, Alia’s work addresses the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern as their primary motif. Textile, in particular, has been a constant in the artist's practice. Her work broadens into immersive installations utilizing light and pattern to move past language and offer an expansive, experiential understanding of self, culture, and nation. Alia’s practice expands into discourses of Yemeni Futurism where she offers counter-narratives to appropriation, violence and disregard. Her research calls upon oral histories to reframe nostalgic pasts and to confront dystopian realities of the present in order to carve out spaces for radically imagined futures.

Education

Alia completed her elementary and middle school years years in Sana’a Yemen, until her and her family came to the United States in 1998, first to Hamtramck, Michigan, and then to Bloomington, Indiana. In 2002 she was the recipient of the Shelby Davis scholarship at the United World College (Atlantic College) in Llantwit, Major, Wales. Ali attended Wellesley College between 2004 and 2009 with a two year leave in Hi Chi Minh, Vietnam, where she was inspired to continue her degrees in International Political Studies and Human Rights as well as Studio Art, wit
David Teng OlsenSalem Mekuria
an
Judith Black
In 2018, she decided to continue with her MFA at the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for ...

. She has worked with

Cauleen Smith Cauleen Smith (born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is best known for her feature film '' Drylongso'' and her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues fa ...

Paul Sepuya
EJ Hayes, Ashley Hunt
Charles Gaines
an
Mercedes Dorame
at CalArts, as well a
Michael Rakowitz

Works

''CAST NO EVIL'', 2016
(LensCulture Emerging Talent Award)
BORDERLAND
', 2018
FLUX
', 2019-2021
MIGRATION
', 2021-2022
INDIGO
', 2019-2021
''UNDER THREAD''
2019
MASAI
', 2024
''LOVE (HUB'')
2021
LIBERTY
', 2022-2023
BLUE NOTE
', 2023
JADE
2024
SHREDS
', 2024
GLITZCH
', 2024
CHROMA
', 2025
REFRACTED FUTURES
', 2024-2025 INSTALLATIONS
THE RED STAR
', 2020-2022
NOOK
', 2023
IN COLLECTIVE RISE
', 2022-2023 VIDEO
MAHJAR
', 2020 (14 minutes)
CONFLICT IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN PEACE
', 2020 (17 minutes)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Alia Living people American women artists 21st-century American artists American people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent American people of Yemeni descent California Institute of the Arts alumni Wellesley College alumni Women multimedia artists American multimedia artists Year of birth missing (living people)