Saria AlMidani

Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1993, Saria AlMidani studied Arts at the University of Kalamoon. Saria had to seek asylum in the U.S., settling in Fort Worth, TX after.

In Fort Worth, as a refugee, Saria’s experiences within the city, and with low-income jobs shaped their art practice. Saria exhibited works with fairs, pop-ups, and group exhibitions. Saria’s practice has revolved around revisiting photos and memories. The act of revisiting a photo is compelling, to repurpose and relook and see, again and again. Saria is interested in the parallels of memories and photos to topics like revolutions, wars, migration, and exile. Conceptualism, language, and color theories are major modes of thinking and sometimes show in the works.

Being physically in Texas, isolated from any real Middle Eastern and Syrian cultural communities led Saria to extend their visual practice into a curatorial one. Saria worked on organizing many exhibitions with galleries and foundations from research to mounting.

Saria’s research focus in inspired by the need to research, archive, contextualize, and one day to even collect and exhibit modern and contemporary Syrian art and artists.

Saria founded Tayf Collective, a collective focused on documenting and exhibiting Syrian artists in exile, and creating spaces for a dialogue among Syrian artists and thinkers.

Saria is the Assistant to Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City where they live and work.