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Artist Statement:
Art, for me, is about beauty.
The primary motive is the
aesthetic value, so I tend to
lean towards the art for
arts sake school of theory.
I do not like to be surrounded
by ugliness, no matter how
meaningful it may be; that
would kindle too much negative
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Collections:
Painting acquired by
Shiseido company in Paris,
1997.
Four paintings acquired by
the National Council of
Culture, Arts, and Literature,
Kuwait, 2002.
Painting acquired by Sheikh
Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed
Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 2002.
Acquisitions with various
distinguished people and
diplomats.
- Painting acquired by the
Museum of Modern Art...
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Commissions:
Commissions:
Cover art illustration for
Mr Hamad Al-Hamads book,
Kuwait, 1993.
Painting for Mr. Tareq
Abdullah Amin for his villa in
Salwa, Kuwait, 2007.
8 murals (wall paintings)
for the Bayan Palace,
Presidential Residential
villas, Kuwait, 2008.
3 paintings for the Bayan
Palace, Presidential
Residential villas, Kuwait,
2008.
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Exhibitions for Shurooq Amin:
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Exhibitions:
Participated in her first art exhibition at the age of ten (in 1977) at the Ahmed Al-Adwani exhibition hall in Dahiat Abdullah Al-Salem, Kuwait.
First solo exhibition in 1994 at Ghadir Gallery in Salhiya, Kuwait.
Second solo art exhibition, entitled Faces, at Boushihri Gallery in Salmiya in May 1997.
Third solo art exhibition at the Meridien Hotel in Kuwait City in November, 1997.
Fourth solo exhibition in 1999 at The Art Shop gallery in Salhiya.
Fifth, and largest, solo art exhibition at the Kuwait Arts Association in 2002, entitled Wind and Water, featuring forty large oil on canvas paintings based on the Chinese concept of Feng Shui.
In December 2004 she exhibited at the First Kuwaiti Al-Khorafi Biennale with other Kuwaiti artists at the Kuwait Arts Association, Kuwait.
In February 2005 she exhibited at the 44th National Day and 14th Liberation Day Exhibition at the Kuwait Arts Association, Kuwait.
Exhibited in Sharjah with other Kuwaiti artists representing their country, as well as participating in several art exhibitions locally.
- Sixth solo art exhibition entitled The Gift at the Al-Khorafi Gallery in the Kuwait Arts Association, comprising 30 large oil on canvas paintings.
- Participated in January 2008 in two group exhibitions at the Kuwait Arts Association and was awarded a prize for her paintings in the Kuwait Women's exhibition.
- Participated in February 2008 in two group exhibitions: one at Dar Al-Funoon Gallery and the other at the Kuwait Arts Association.
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