“I’ve always been interested in how photography functions, and I try to undermine any documentary authority it may possess as a medium.”
Jowhara AlSaud was born in Saudi Arabia in 1978 and now splits her time between New York and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As an undergraduate, she studied film theory at Wellesley College and she received her Master of Fine Arts in 2004 from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University. AlSaud was a runner-up for the 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize. She has exhibited her work internationally in group and solo shows, most recently at art fairs Paris Photo, the Aleppo 10th International Photo Festival in Syria, Art Rotterdam and Danziger Projects in New York. Her work is part of collections across Europe, the US and the Middle East.
