UNTITLED
acrylic, brush and ink and coloured pencil on paper
57 x 76cm; 22 1/2 x 30in
unframed

Property of a Private Collector, New York

Provenance
Sale, 16 Beaver Group, New York, Alwan Benefit Auction, 3 June 2004
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Ania Soliman is an Egyptian/Polish/American artist who grew up in Baghdad and is currently based between Paris and New York. Her multidisciplinary practice spans large-scale drawings, paintings, text, performance, video and installation, often incorporating AI-generated imagery and archival materials. Soliman’s work explores cultural translation, the digital unconscious, and the tension between organic and technological forms. Soliman is able to transform her works into visually charged layered work through intricate proccess such as tracing, colouring, dripping, spraying and embellishing.

She has exhibited internationally at venues such as Misk Art Institute, Riyadh (2024), Castello di Rivoli (2023, 2018), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2020), The Drawing Center in New York (2010, 2020), and the Whitney Biennial (2010), the 14 Istanbul Biennial (2015), the Museum der Kulturen in Basel (2014), among other venues. She attended Harvard College and Columbia University before participating in the Whitney independent Study Program. In 2010, she was awarded the Laurenz-Haus residency in Basel, Switzerland.

Soliman's installation at Art Dubai 2025 explores the intersection of technology, nature, and memory. Titled Kahrabaa’, Arabic for ‘electricity’, the work was created during Beirut’s ongoing energy crisis, and reflects the deep connections between ecology, diaspora, and power systems.