Lamya Gargash
Emirati artist Lamya Gargash was born in 1982. After graduating from the American University of Sharjah in 2004, she moved to London to pursue a postgraduate degree in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins. Gargash is heavily inspired by inhabited and abandoned spaces and cultural heritage in a context of rapid change. Exploring modernity, mortality, identity, and the banal, Gargash captures the beauty of human trace and the value of the mundane.
Gargash was selected to represent the UAE in its debut pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009, where she showcased her Familial series. In the same year, she also participated in the 9th Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah with her Majlis series.
Gargash’s works have been included in solo and group shows worldwide. Solo shows include Sahwa, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2020); Traces, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2014); Through the Looking Glass, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2012); Presence, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (2012); Presence, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne, Germany (2010); Presence, The Third Line, Doha, Qatar (2008). Selected group exhibitions include; Architecture of Loneliness, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2018); Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World, American University, Washington D.C., USA(2018); Portrait of a Nation (ADMAF), me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany (2016); Emirati Expressions: Conventions of Arts, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2015); A Burgeoning Collection, Sharjah, UAE(2015); Within Borders: Contemporary Art from the UAE, Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE (20150); View from Inside: Contemporary Arab Photography, Video, and Mixed Media Art, Emirates Palace Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2015); Middle East Revealed, Salone del Mobile, Milano (2015); Middle East Revealed, London, UK (2014); Sharjah Art Foundation Collection Works on Display, Cologne, Germany (2014 and many more.
Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, and Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE. Gargash currently lives and works in Dubai.
