Rheim Alkadhi

Rheim Alkadhi is an artist who engages a variable practice. Her digital media projects offer conceptual exits from the frameworks of war and occupation. Her sculptural projects confront the physicality of art production in a trans-geographic context.

Born in 1973, she grew up with cross-cultural roots in Baghdad and New England. Her years as a child in Iraq have left her with the linguistic referents and aesthetic systems that inform her practice today. As a result, her work is a visual engagement with war from a psychological standpoint, and often through an absurdist lens.

She recently concluded a residency at Townhouse Gallery in Downtown Cairo and is a 2009 Mid-career Artist Fellow with the California Community Foundation.