Sama Alshaibi Iraq and Palestine, b. 1973

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Echoes and Perceptions, a Summer Collective with works by Abdul Karim Majdal Al Beik, Afshin Pirhashemi, Athier Mousawi, Faisal Samra, Farzad Kohan, Kais Salman, Sadik Alfraji, Safwan Dahoul, and Sama Alshaibi.

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Staging the Imagined, a solo exhibition featuring Sama Alshaibi’s latest body of work.

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present the second edition of you + topia, a collective exhibition featuring the works of leading contemporary artists from the Middle East.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai is pleased to present you + topia, a collective exhibition.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai (11 Alserkal Avenue) is pleased to announce Our Night is Long, a collective exhibition exploring how painters and photographers are recording the ongoing conflicts that have distraught the Middle East and North Africa.

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present 10:52, a collective exhibition that commemorates the tenth anniversary of its founding. Highlighting all fifty-two artists who have had solo shows at its different locations in the past decade, this selection of works reflects Ayyam Gallery’s evolution as one of the leading art spaces in the Middle East and North Africa.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai, (11, Alserkal Avenue) is pleased to present Collapse, the solo exhibition of Sama Alshaibi. Featuring a diverse range of work spanning several years of her artistic career, the exhibition highlights Alshaibi’s conceptual approach to photography and the layered and collapsing signs that are integral to her distinctive aesthetic, particularly her use of the body as a metaphor for spatial and temporal transgressions. In addition to outlining Alshaibi’s intricate sense of formalism, the photographs, installations, and videos of Collapse indicate the underlying themes that have shaped an ongoing narrative in her work, as the artist traces the consequences of war, the psychic effects of forced migration, and the ecological crises that have resulted from such manmade disasters.

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Sand Rushes In, the forthcoming solo exhibition of United States-based, Palestinian-Iraqi artist Sama Alshaibi.

From March 12 until April 26, the Ayyam Art Center will showcase the second edition of The Samawi Collection II, a museum-quality exhibition featuring over sixty works of art from the private collections of Khaled and Hisham Samawi. For its inaugural exhibition in 2011, Selections from the Samawi Collection displayed fifty carefully selected paintings from Arab artists traversing the region and spanning generations providing an opportunity for visitors to view the history and evolution of contemporary Arab art.