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Artist Biography:

Hana Almilli is a multimedia artist, textile designer, and poet based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2019, she graduated from California College of Arts, centering on Textiles and Creative Writing. In 2022, she graduated with a Master's in Arts and Culture Management from Rome Business School, Italy. Hana’s research-based practice explores the idea of recreating affected, and resurrected identities through the material culture of textile, and assemblages. Belonging to Turkish, Syrian, Kurdish, and Saudi lineage, she was persuaded with questions of identity. Enquiring into perpetual alienation, her ideology developed into discovering, and representing the term Al Ghorba (estrangement in a foreign land). Consequently, Hana’s visual structure interrogates nostalgia through weaving, dyeing, embroidering, and photography. In 2019, Hana conducted her first solo show, Sada Kharaet Ghorbati at Isabelle Percy West Gallery in Oakland, California. She self-published the collection of her poetry as a book, Al Ghorba.

Exhibitions:

- SDC Photography Group Exhibition, King Faisal University. Riyadh, KSA (2013)

- NASAD Exhibition, California College of the Arts. Oakland, California (2018)

- "Sada Khara'et Ghorbati" Solo Exhibition, Isabelle Percy West Gallery. Oakland, California (2019)

- "A Tribe Called Rasa" Group Exhibition (Private Event). San Francisco, California (2019)

- Misk Art Week, Virtual Young Artist Exhibition. Virtual (2020)

- Masaha Residency Showcase, Misk Art Institute. Riyadh, KSA (2021)

- Next Wave, Misk Art Institute x Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, Germany (2022)

- Intermix Residency Showcase, MOC Visual Arts Commission, and Fashion Commission x Athr Gallery. Riyadh, KSA (2022)

- Performing Bodies Group Show. Lakum Artspace, Riyadh, KSA (2022)

Publications:

- Sustainable Textile Designer, Saudi Vision 2030 Social Media Feature, 2021.

- Arab News, Featured image and article, 2021.

- Saudi Gazette, Featured article, 2021.

- The National News, Featured Article, 2021.

- Sayidaty, Featured Article, 2021.

- Aawsat, Featured Article, 2021.

- Art connect, Artists to watch '22, 2022.

- Arab News, Intermix Residency, Featured Article, 2022.

- Kooness, Art magazine feature, 2022.

- Arab News, Misk Art Week x Lakum Artspace, Featured Article, 2022.

- Arab News, Saudi female artists showcase Saudi craft through history, Featured Article, 2023.

Residencies:

- ElBalad Art Residency, Ministry of Culture (2020-2021)

- Masaha Art Residency, Misk Art Institute (2021)

- Intermix Residency, Ministry of Culture Visual Arts and Fashion Commission x Athr Gallery (2022)

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