Shurooq Amin

Shurooq Amin (Kuwaiti, born in 1967) is a mixed-media interdisciplinary artist and an Anglophone poet. She has a Ph.D. in Ekphrasis, the relationship between art and poetry.

With 15 solo exhibitions and more than 45 group exhibitions, her paintings have been sold at auctions, commissioned privately and publicly, and awarded prizes locally and internationally.

In 2020, Shurooq Amin’s 15th solo art exhibition - Like Russian Dolls We Nest In Previous Selves - opened to critical acclaim at CAP Gallery in Kuwait. The exhibition lasted one week before it was shut down and censored by the Government on the false premise that the artwork was “pornographic”. This second-time censorship has fuelled Amin to further expose censorship in the arts and the repression of women’s voices. Amin turned to the world of NFTs as a platform for freedom and expression, to relay her message across the world without fear of oppression or censorship.