About

Samar Al Summary was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1988). Her work disorients west and east, progress and regress, belatedness and contemporariness. She is an artist and writer who has worked in video, installation, photography, and text. Through her work, she reveals the historical, economic, and material contexts in which the hallucinations of power take place. Her most recent exhibitions include Organ Vida International Photography Festival in zagreb, Croatia (2020), Film Festival Oberhausen at Oberhausen, Germany (2020); Rencontres de la Photographie at Marrakech, Morocco (2019); Voies Off Awards Screening at Arles, France (2019). She was a part of Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Educational Fellowship from 2019 to 2020.

Please contact her here: samaralsummary@gmail.com.

Education

• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, United States, June-August 2022.

• Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace program, Beirut, Lebanon, October 2019-May 2020.

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ BA in Art History, August 2014-16

Awards

• Hesitant Images, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2020

• Barjeel Art Foundation Fellowship, July 2019. This grant provided living and production expenses during the Askal Alwan residency.

• NY portfolio review, March 2019. This is a prescreened portfolio review sponsored by the New York Times. 5% of applicants were accepted from all over the world. I presented my art photographer to eight curators and photo editors.

Group Exhibitions

• Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, May 2020

• Rencontres de la Photographie, Marrakech, Morocco. October 2019.

• Voies Off Awards Screening, Arles, France. July 2019.

• MOCA Three Minute Film Fest, Tucson, AZ. May 2019.

•         Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY. October 2018.

•         Rinse, Repeat, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI. August, 2018.

•         Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM. June 2017.

•         Standing Room Only, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ. November, 2016. 

•         Variance, Loft Cinema, Tucson AZ. May, 2016.

•         Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance exhibition, Ventana Medical Systems, Tucson AZ. Spring 2015.

•         Juried Exhibition, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson AZ. Spring 2014.

 Publications

·         Color Balance, Don’t Smile, October 2018.

·         Enigma, Musée Magazine, June 2017.

·         Windshield Nature, Float Magazine, Feb. 2017.