"Shadia Alem reconstructs and shapes elements and beings with unbounded freedom. In her work, relief ranges from the edge of a face to the entrails of a mountain, and entails textures as well. She asserts the complementarity of the souls of these elements, synthesizing thus history, inheritance, and the essence of the avtive inner forces at stake."

• Born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
• Member of the House of Artists, Jeddah.
• Member of the House of Photographers, Jeddah.

Exhibitions & Artwork

• Various group exhibitions in Saudi Arabia and abroad from 1992 to 1997.
• The British Airways Exhibition: her painting "Market Day", chosen to represent Saudi Arabia on the tailfins of some British Airways Aircraft, was awarded the Utopia prize..
• Solo Exhibition Signs, Rochan Gallery, Jeddah, 1999 (Sponsored by Al Mansouria Foundation).
• Illustration of Masra Ya-Raqeed published by Le Centre Culturel Arabe, Casablanca, 1997.
• Cover design for plays and novels for Dar Al Adab Publishers, Beirut and Le Centre Culturel Arabe, Casablanca.
• Europ'Art, Geneva, 2000 (Sponsored by Al Mansouria Foundation).
• Jinniyat Lar, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, September 2000.
• Jinniyat Lar, The Saudi National Museum, Riyadh, December 2000.
• Jinniyat Lar, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, February 2001.
• Art for All, festival, organized and sponsored by Al Mansouria Foundation, Jeddah, April 2001.
• Babel 2002, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, June to August 2002.

Awards & Public Collections

• Her artwork has been awarded prizes and collected by the Saudi Youth Welfare Ministry, Riyadh.
• Group (A) prize in the Second Annual Saudi Airlines Competition, 1994.
• Public collections in various art galleries and institutions in Saudi Arabia, Ireland, United States, Korea, Qatar, South Africa (President Nelson Mandela) and at Al Mansouria Foundation for Culture and Creativity in Paris.