LC control no. | no2012096831 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Gharem, Abdulnasser, 1973- |
Associated place | Khamì„s Mushayt, Saudi Arabia |
Birth date | 1973 |
Profession or occupation | Artist |
Found in | Abdulnasser Gharem, 2011: page 31-33 (born in 1973; spent the first seven years of his life in a mountain-top village before moving to Khamis Mushait, a provincial military town near the border of Yemen) Abdulnasser Gharem, via WWW, July 17, 2012 (Abdulnasser Gharem; one of Saudi Arabia's leading contemporary artists; born in 1973 in the Saudi Arabian city of Khamis Mushait, where he continues to live and work today; in 1992 Gharem graduated from the King Abdulaziz Academy before attending The Leader Institute in Riyadh; in 2003 he studied at the influential Al- Meftaha Arts Village in Abha; in 2004 Gharem and the Al-Meftaha artists staged a group exhibition, Shattah, which challenged existing modes of art practice in Saudi Arabia; since then Gharem has exhibited in Europe, the Gulf and the USA, including at Martin Gropius-Bau and at the Venice, Sharjah & Berlin Biennales) |