Bio

Razan AlSarraf (she/ her) is an artist and educator based between Kuwait and Los Angeles. Through painting, drawing, video and sound, she reflects on the interactions of people with land and landscape. She received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Fine Arts with honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Razan is the recipient of the SVA Alumni Society Scholarship & Award and Ministry of Higher Education of Kuwait Merit Bachelors and Masters Scholarships. She has exhibited internationally, participating within solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, France, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait.

Education

2022 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Honors, Awards & Residencies

Visionary Creatives Residency, Promenade Cultural Center, Kuwait, 2024

[ongoing] sporespace x Hunna Residency, Ojai, CA, 2023

TropicalLab Residency, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 2022

SADI Residency, Sadu House, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2021

Masters Scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2020-22

PDI Fellow with the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Kuwaiti Embassy, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, 2018-19

Alumni Society Scholarship & Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2018

Honors in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2014-18

Certificate of Academic Merit, Kuwait Culture, Washington, DC, 2014-18

Merit Scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2014-18

Exhibitions & Curatorial Projects

(forthcoming) solo show at spore space, Ojai, CA, 2025

Memoryscapes (duo-show), Promenade Cultural Center, Kuwait, 2024

*Co-curated - Raj’een, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait, 2024

Hunna - Elles - هنّ, Millon, Paris, France, 2023

*Co-curated - Palestinian Art Stands: Cultural Resistance, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait, 2023

Razan AlSarraf Open Studio, GOES TO OCEAN, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

*Co-curated - Tips on Surviving the Subterranean River Caverns of Los Angeles, GOES TO OCEAN, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

*Co-curated - soft threads, Bardwell Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

Career Accelerator, GOES TO OCEAN, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

durée, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

TropicalLab Residency Exhibition, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 2022

BijouFest, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2022

CalArts Expo, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2022

METAMAKING, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2022

MFA Open Studios, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2022

gharb, ghurba, ghurbar, MFA Thesis, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2022

Asia America, MoCA LI, Long Island, NY, 2022

Gulf Metaverse 2.0 - Radical Futures Festival, VCU, Qatar, 2022

MIA Art Collection, Al Safa, Dubai, UAE, 2022

Crossed Wires, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2021

Other Places Art Fair, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2021

SADI, Sadu House Gallery, Kuwait, 2021

CalArts Expo, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2021

thurs.night, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2021

Shake Up the Room, September Gallery, Hudson, New York, 2021

Feeler Gauge Festival, Virtual Film Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (Live until May 31), 2021

Solo Exhibition at Ghadir Gallery, Kuwait (cancelled due to covid), 2020

Solo Exhibition at Masaha 13, Kuwait (cancelled due to covid), 2020

Group Exhibition at Dar Al Funoon Gallery, Kuwait (cancelled due to covid), 2020

Showroom, Becarre, Salmiya, Kuwait, 2020

Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

Womankind Benefit, Womankind, New York, NY, 2019

Open Studios, Nolo Studios, Brooklyn, NY, 2019

Generation ز , ArtX, New York, NY, 2018

Re-cord, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2018

Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2018

We Love Decay, Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY, 2018

Abolish 153, The Hub, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2018

Cutting Out, Art and Method, Brooklyn, NY, 2018

The Politics of Identity, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY, 2018

Tradition is the Illusion of Permanence, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2017

BFA Fine Arts Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2017

Becoming Shades, Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, 2017

Herbs, Community Table, Kuwait, 2017

Showroom, Becarre Gallery, Salmiya, Kuwait, 2017

(In)timate, Venue 845, Newark, New Jersey, 2016

RAW: MOTIF, the Warsaw, Brooklyn, New York, 2016

Saffron, the View, Kuwait, 2016

Mise, Salhiya, Kuwait, 2016

Artist's Journal, VCS Gallery, New York, New York | Curated by Peter Hristoff, 2016

Artist Talks

(forthcoming) With the Land: Environment and Nature in Contemporary Gulf Art  (Panel Discussion hosted by Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington with Alia Zaal & Talin Hazbar), Kuwait - DC

My Brother, My Land - A Story from Palestine (Moderator), CAP, Kuwait, 2024

Awareness on the Violence Against Women (Moderator), CAP, Kuwait, 2023

Interrobang!, (Talk with Q&A, Moderated by Zoe Strauss), Kuwait - LA, 2022

CalArts Open House, (Talk with Q&A), Kuwait - LA, 2021

Expanding Boundaries (Panel Discussion with Maha Al Asaker, Deniz Ataman, Nada Faris, and Samaher Bayazeed), Ludlow House, New York, NY 2019

(Re)imagining Home (Panel Discussion at the Arab Conference at Harvard), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2019

Generation ز : Artist/ Curator Talk and Exhibition Tour ArtX, New York, NY, 2018

Culture Forum: Art for Sustainable Futures (Panel Discussion with Rashad Salim and Matthew Mazzota, moderated by Stephen Stapleton), Asia Society, New York, NY, 2018

International Student Artist Panel Discussion, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2017

Sotheby’s Institute of Art: Studio Visit and Artist Talk School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2017

Cultural Partner Program: Opening Ceremony, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2016

International Student Artist Panel Discussion, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2016

Public Art Projects

Roots of Resistance [Palestinian Wild Flowers & Olive Trees], Masayil, Kuwait, 2024

City Kids Mural, Brooklyn NY, 2019

Generation ز Wild Postings, Brooklyn NY, 2018

Acorn School Murals, New York, NY, 2017

Stuyvesant Cove Park Murals, New York, NY, 2017

Sarajatel Munira Nursery Murals, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 2013

Professional Experience