Ebtisam Abdulaziz (b.1975) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. She explores issues of identity and culture through installation, performance, mixed-media, painting and works on paper. Combining the scientific with the arbitrary, Abdulaziz draws from her training in science and mathematics, methodically exploring subconscious states and the expansiveness of daily life. She creates codes, systematic structures, graphic language, and performative gestures to force viewers to question their assumptions about rules in the natural and formulaic world. The intimate juxtapositions of these concepts center awareness on our surrounding environment and the issues that perplex and shape us.
Ebtisam's work has been exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennale as part of the UAE and Abu Dhabi Pavilions, Venice, Italy; at the 7th and 10th Sharjah Biennial; Dubai Next, Basel; The Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; The Kunst Museum, Bonn, Wolfsburg Germany; The Mori Art Museum, Japan; Benin Biennial 2012, Kora Centre, Benin; FotoFest Biennial, Art in Houston, Texas; Cara Gallery; Smack Mellon gallery in New York; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Her installations, paintings, works on paper and videos are held in numerous international public and private collections. Her video work, Autobiography 2007, was purchased for the Guggenheim Museum collection, Abdu Dhbai. Abdulaziz was named as one of 100 powerful Arab Women of 2013 list. She has been living in Washington, D.C. since 2014.
