Alia Farid (b. Puerto Rico, 1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has had solo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, Switzerland), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Portikus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the Diriyah Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Bienal de São Paulo, Gwangju Biennale, and Sharjah Biennial; Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001 at MoMA PS1; and Yokohama Triennale and Asia Pacific Triennial. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions in Chisenhale Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum Houston in partnership with Rivers Institute, CAC Passerelle, and Detroit Institute of Arts.
Farid holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from la Escuela de Arts Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico), an MS from the Visual Arts Program at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.), and an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents at MACBA (Barcelona, Spain). She received The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award in 2023 and is currently the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2023–2024).
