Daniah Alsaleh’s work reflects on memory and cultural conditioning: how messages and beliefs are absorbed and delivered via media and other networks. She questions behavioural patterns and paradigms in the everyday, examining things that we take for face value, by destabilising the mainstream assumptions that form the basis of this conditioning. Her work deconstructs accepted meanings and suggest alternative positions. She looks at the ordinary, the mundane, the ubiquitous of things by looking into cultural tropes, memory, connectedness and division. Through different materials and computation, Alsaleh uses analogies to establish ways of reading and unearth unexpected perspectives. The work is duplicitous: behind its aesthetics lies a commentary on human fragility, insecurity, and vulnerability
EDUCATION
2020 –MFA ( With Distinction) in Computational Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
1993 Undergraduate degree in Computer Applications, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
2022 AlUla Residency, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2022 Berlin Art Institute Residency, Berlin, Germany
2020 Residency at AreByte Gallery June/July, London, UK
2019 Hayy Learning, Navigating the Contemporary Art Scene, Art Jameel, Jeddah
2014-2017 Short Courses (Textile Sculpture, Oil Painting), The Art Academy, London, UK
2010-2017 Selected Short courses The Princes School of Traditional Arts, London, UK
2012 Short Course Slade School of Art, London, UK
2007-2008 Selected Courses, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2002-2012 Selected Courses, Atelier of Dar Safiya bn Zagr, Jeddah, KSA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Keep Smiling, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2016 Delirium, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 -Palimpsest of Time, Arts AlUla, Mabiti, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2022 -From Spark to Spirit, Noor Riyadh, Jax, Saudi Arabia
-We Dream of New Horizons, Noor Riyadh, Oud Square, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
-Tales of Nostalgia, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021 -Feeling The Stones, Ad Diriyah Biennale, Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
-Echos. A World Between the Analogue and the Virtual, BIENALSUR, Qasr Khuzam, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
-Echos. A World Between the Analogue and the Virtual, BIENALSUR, Emilio Caraffa Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Cordoba, Argentina
- Echos. A World Between the Analogue and the Virtual, BIENALSUR, Jax Ad Diriyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
-Elemental, Online Exhibition
2020 -Chimara Garden , Goldsmiths College, London, UK
-I Love You urgently, Seventh edition of 21,39, Jeddah, KSA
-Wolf Tone, XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2019 -So How is that Working for You, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
-AI and International Dialogue, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
-Together, Medina Art Centre, Medina, KSA
2018 -Echo Systems, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
-Cultural Days, Moscow, Russia
-Cultural Days, New York, USA
2017 -Letters, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
2015 -Anonymous, Hafiz Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
2014 -Mualaqat First Edition 21,39
-The language of Human Consciousness, Athr Gallery – Jeddah, KSA
2013 -Jeddah Atelier, Jeddah, KSA
-Unstitched, Nayla Art Gallery, Riyadh, KSA
-Against the Grain Cap, Kuwait, Kuwait
BIENNALE
2022 Ad Diriyah Biennale
2021 BienalSUR
ART FAIRS
2019 Art Dubai
2018 Abu Dhabi Art
2017 Abu Dhabi Art
2016 Abu Dhabi Art
2015 Abu Dhabi art
Art Dubai
2014 Art International Istanbul
AWARDS
2019 Ithra Art Prize, Ithra, Saudi Arabia