Sama Alshaibi’s photographs, videos and immersive installations examine the mechanisms of fragmentation in the aftermath of war and exile. They feature a female figure, often her own, that references a complex site of struggle and identification, and confront an image history of photographs through a feminist perspective. Recent exhibitions include the State of The Art 2020, Crystal Bridges (Arkansas, 2020), 13th Cairo International Biennale (Egypt, 2019), and solo exhibitions at Ayyam Gallery (Dubai, 2019) and Artpace (San Antonio, 2019). Alshaibi received the 2019 Project Development Award from the Center (Santa Fe), 2018 Artist Grant from the Arizona Commission on The Arts, and the 2017 Visual Arts Grant from AFAC (Beirut). Her monograph, Sama Alshaibi: Sand Rushes In was published by Aperture, NYC. Alshaibi’s twenty-one solo exhibitions and over 150 group exhibitions include the 55th Venice Biennale, Pen + Brush (NYC), Breda Photo Festival (Netherlands), American University Museum (Washington D.C.), 2017 Honolulu Biennial, Marta Herford Museum (Germany), SMoCA (Scottsdale), and MoMA (NYC). Alshaibi was a recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in 2014-2015 as part of a residency at the Palestine Museum in Ramallah, West Bank. Alshaibi is Professor of Photography, Video and Imaging at University of Arizona, Tucson.