Ania Soliman
- Ania Soliman
- Work
Ania Soliman, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, 2022
Ania Soliman is an Egyptian/Polish/American artist who grew up in Baghdad and is currently based between Paris and New York.
Her practice encompasses large-scale drawings and paintings derived from AI-generated imagery and archival material, extending into text, performance, video, and installation. Soliman's research-based work explores cultural translation, examining how representations mediate our relationships with nature and technology.
Through intricate processes of tracing, desaturating, smudging, coloring, and embellishing, she transforms source materials into layered works. These pieces serve as icons for healing processes within unconscious negotiations between bodies and the culturally and digitally determined languages inhabiting our minds.
Her current project investigates intersections of AI, psychoanalysis, and painting, in order to visualize and transform a global digital unconscious.
Ania Soliman’s work has been exhibited at Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, (2024), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2023, 2018), Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (2022), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2020), the Drawing Center in New York (2020, 2010), the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg (2016), the Museum of Contemporary Art at Antwerp (2015), the Whitney Biennial (2010), the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), the Museum der Kulturen in Basel (2014), among other venues. She attended Harvard College and Columbia University before participating in the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2010 she was awarded the Laurenz-Haus residency in Basel, Switzerland.
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2022 | terraform, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2017 | Explaining Dance to a Machine, Galerie Sfeir-Semler Hamburg |
| 2015 | Inside the Thing is Nothing, Salt Walter, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2014 | Semiwild, Museum of Cultures, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Body Riot, Bollag Project Room, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2000 | Biohazards, The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | The Silent Age of Singularity, Misk Art Institute, Riaydh, KSA |
| 2021 | 100 Drawings from now, The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
| 2020 | Unprecedented Times, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria WHERE THE LEMONS BLOOM…, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2019 | Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| 2018 | Metamorphoses - Let Everything Happen to You, Castello Di Rivoli, Italy |
| 2016 | BLIND DATE, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, Lebanon 1000m2 of desire, Center of Contemporary Cultura, Barcelona, Spain Art-Music-Dance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2015 | Lodgers, MUHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2012 | Nos hicimos la ilusion de avanzar directamente, Espai Cultural, Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2010 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| 2008 | HYBRID III: Eurographic, a Cultural Bridge Across Europe, Cartwright Gallery, Bradford, England |
| 2006 | Salad Days, Artists Space, New York, USA When artists say "WE", Artists Space, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Inscribing the temporal, 3 New York artists' collectives, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria 25th Anniversary Exhibition , The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
Awards and Residencies | |
| 2015 | Adam Mickiewicz Foundation AIR Antwerp / MUHKA |
| 2009 | Laurenz Foundation Residency, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2005 | Skowhegan Residency, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, USA |