Tamara Al-Samerraei

Born in Kuwait in 1977, Tamara Al-Samerraei lives and works in Beirut.

She received a BA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University in Beirut in 2002 and completed the inaugural year of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan (2011-2012), Beirut.

Her solo exhibitions include Let Me Stay a Little Longer, Marfa’, Beirut; Make Room For Me, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo; Fleeting Fences and Something White, Agial Art Gallery, Beirut.

She has participated in several group exhibitions including Home Beirut: Sounding the Neighbours, MAXXI Museum, Rome; Heavenly Beings: Neither Human Nor Animal, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana; the Sharjah Biennial 13 Tamawuj, Sharjah; On Water, Rosemary and Mercury curated by Christine Tohme as part of Ashkal Alwan’s Homeworks 7, Beirut; 25 Ans De Creativité Arabe,Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris; All About Beirut, White Box, Munich; Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Radius of Art project, Fladernbunker, Kiel; Shoe Box, Dar Al Funoon, Kuwait