Rheim Alkadhi

Rheim Alkadhi
Born	ريم القاضي 1973 Buffalo, NY
Residence	Beirut, Lebanon
Education	California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
Known for	intermedia

Rheim Alkadhi (Arabic: ريم القاضي) (born 1973) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Beirut.

Born in Buffalo, New York, she was raised in Baghdad, Iraq during the 1970s, returning to the United States at the start of the Iran–Iraq War.

Alkadhi earned a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where she was a student of Michael Asher, and a MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

In 2015, she was a fellow in visual art at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In 2014 she developed the project "Communications From the Field of Contact (Each Hair Is a Tongue)" during her residency at the Sharjah Art Foundation. In 2012 she was a temporary member of a household of women in the West Bank village of Jam'ain in Palestine, where she developed her project "Collective Knotting Together of Hairs" with the local Women's Association, with Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation in Ramallah, and with Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. In 2012 she was artist in residence at Darat al Funun in Amman via the initiative of Rijin Sahakian and Sada for Contemporary Iraqi Art. In 2011 she was in residence at Dar al Ma'mun in Tassoultante and then independent of institutional assistance in the village of Tahannaout, Al Haouz Province. In 2010 she spent one month in Itaewon, Seoul with the artist-run space DoBaeBacsa. In 2010 she was artist in residence at PØST in Los Angeles.

In 2009 she had a residency at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, where she gathered material for the limited edition artist book "Destroyed in Baghdad / Repaired in Cairo: A Viewer's Manual to a Temporary Art Practice in the Auto Mechanics District". In 2009 she printed the limited edition artist book "Post Cards From the Clandestine Troupe".

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