Selected Alia Ali solo exhibitions include FLOW, Galerie Peter Sillem, Frankfurt (2021); Mot(if), 193 Gallery, Paris (2021); Vocal Motifs, Contour Gallery, Rotterdam (2021); Cartographies of Pattern, Foto Relevance, Houston (2021); Patterned Paradigms, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans (2021); Refracted Futures, Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico (2021); Alia Ali: Project Series 53, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, California (2020); FLUX, New Orleans Museum of Art/Galerie Peter Sillem/Intersect Aspen (2020); Hommage, Galerie Siniya28, Marrakech (2020).
Selected group exhibitions featuring Alia Ali include Woven Tongue, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2021); Intersect 21, Palm Springs, California (2021); Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London (2021); Phantoms, Ruins, and Reflections: Contemporary Art from Yemen, European Union High Commission, Brussels (2020); Modest Fashion, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2019).
Ali has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Creative Activism Award, Cultures of Resistence (2021); Photographer of the Year and 1st Place: Fine Art, Chromatic Awards (2019); Clyde & Co. Artist Award for the Middle East and North Africa (2018); Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Award, Magenta Foundation (2017).
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