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Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed (born 1969) in New York, NY

Where are they based now? Lives and works in New Jersey

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Early Life and Education
1994 MFA Creative Writing, Columbia University, New York, NY 1992 BA English, Barnard College, New York, NY

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Art
Newark-based artist Dahlia Elsayed reexamines the interconnectedness of writing and painting in her latest exhibition, Navigations in the Present Tense. Inspired by a recent residency at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New Orleans (Spring 2013), she adopted harder edges and bold colors such as orange, evoking its association with construction signage and barriers. These recent compositions fuse multiple perspective points: looking up, down, sideways, and inside from both close-up and far away. Breaking from her previous work, she now favors fewer elements in isolation and juxtaposition to each other. The individual forms are larger; they span or push the boundaries of the entire composition instead of being small, discrete, and self-contained. Elsayed newly integrates text as a footnote or a list of things rather than an overarching word that de nes the composition. As a result, the reader is drawn into the juxtaposition of words, the sounds of reading them aloud (alliteration in some cases), and the visual and mental associations they conjure. Her language is speci c to a place, landscape, experience, and a moment in time.

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Selected Exhibitions
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Hither and Yon, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

Ideological Tug Of War, Austin Peay State University Art Galleries, Clarksville, TN 2011 Possibles, Probables, Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

The Sticky Parts, South Seattle Community College Art Gallery, WA

Perennial Bloom, BravinLee Programs, Artist Book Program, New York, NY 2010 Orienteering, Palace of Fine Arts, 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt (exh. cat.)

...And Then Some, Aljira Center For Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

All Of It, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ (exh. cat.)

2008 For The Realization of Every Wish..., Crybaby Gallery/City of Asbury Park, NJ (temporary outdoor public art installation) 2006 Periphery, Portlock Black Cultural Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2004 Talk Back, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland

2003 Monuments of Her Last Year, Jersey City Museum, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Introduction, S&J Projects, New York, NY

Contemporary Cartographies, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

The EMO Show, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY Mapni cent, American Institute of Graphic Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Your Body is a Battleground, Pristine Galerie, Monterrey, Mexico

2012 Space Invaders, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

The rug pulled out from beneath you; you lie on the oor, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA Size Matters: Small Works from the Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

2011 The Art of Mapping, TAG Fine Arts, London, UK Mapping, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

2010 You Are Here: The Psychogeography of the City, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY One Thousand and One Nights: The Narrative Tradition in Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ (exh. cat.)

2009 Tectonic, Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ Kuf-Mold-Rotterdam, A-Locatie Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, NJ Flow: Art/Text/New Media, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

2008 Kuf-Mold-Ghent, (site-speci c installation) Gallery Jan Colle, Ghent, Belgium Garden of Delights, Yeosu International Art Festival, South Korea

Orebro Video Art Festival, Orebro Kunsthall, Sweden

The Stories We Tell: Screening, Art in General, New York, NY

Sprawl, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 2007 Desideratum, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

Under Construction in Venice, curated by Barbara Hö er, Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice, Italy 2006 Personal Geographies, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY (exh. cat.)

2005 View nder, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY

New Jersey Arts Annual, curated by Beth Venn, Montclair Art Museum, NJ (exh. cat.) Six Degrees of Separation, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004 Phantom Limb, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Crystal Land, curated by Raul Zamudio, Aljira, Newark, NJ Unveiling the Image, New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ

2003 Modelarnia, Gdansk, Poland

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Newark Museum · US Department of State · Art in Embassies · The Jersey City Museum · Zimmerli Art Museum Hunterdon Museum of Art · Noyes Museum of Art · Montclair Art Museum · Newark Public Library · New Jersey State Museum Morris Museum · New Jersey State Council on the Arts

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Honors
2013 Joan Mitchell Center Residency Program, New Orleans, LA

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Program, New York, NY

Center For Book Arts Workspace Grant, New York, NY

2008 Anderson Ranch Residency, Snowmass Village, CO

2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors

2005 Artist Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ

Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for The Arts, Sausalito, CA 2004 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship

Artist in Residence, Newark Museum, NJ

Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop

Emerge 6 Program, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

2003 ArtsLink Grant for Individual Artists

Artist Teacher Institute Scholarship Grant, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

2002 Artist in Residence, Center for Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia New Jersey State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship

Geraldine R. Dodge Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

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