Basma Alsharif

Born 1983 - Kuwait

Basma Alsharif is a visual artist using moving and still images, sound, and language, to explore the anonymous individual in relation to political history and collective memory. She received an MFA from the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2007 and has been working in Cairo, Beirut, and Amman since then.

Her work has shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally including the 17th SESC Videobrasil, Forum Expanded: Berlinale, Images Festival Ontario where she received the Marion McMahon Award, Manifesta 8 The Region of Murcia, The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, The 9th Edition of the Sharjah Bienniale where she received a jury prize for her work, the Toronto International Film Festival, and she was awarded the Fundación Marcelino Botín Visual Arts Grant in 2009-2010.

Available Titles by Basma Alsharif

Title	Year	Runtime	Collection
Basma Alsharif Videoworks: Volume 1	2019		Compilations, Single Artist Compilations
Deep Sleep	2014	00:12:45	Single Titles
Everywhere was the Same	2007	00:11:38	Single Titles
Farther than the eye can see	2012	00:12:56	Single Titles
Future-Past-Present: A Journey Through the Twenty-Tens So Far	2017	02:31:07	Curated Compilations
Home Movies Gaza	2013	00:24:10	Single Titles
O, Persecuted	2014	00:11:37	Single Titles
The Story of Milk and Honey	2011	00:09:58	Single Titles
Turkish Delight	2010	00:02:46	Single Titles
We Began by Measuring Distance	2009	00:19:06	Single Titles

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