Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi | |
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| Born | 1944 Cairo |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Known for | ceramic art |
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist.
Born in 1944, in Cairo to Iraqi parents, [1] Khalid is a Ceramicist, calligrapher, and painter who lives and works in the United States. [2] She is recognized as a "prominent Arab American female artist" [3] and a "specialist in Islamic art" [4]
Solo exhibitions have been held in Beirut, 1966, 68, and 70; Florence, 1967; Abu Dhabi, 1976; Jedda, 1981; Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983; London, 1984 and 85; Al-Khubar, Saudi Arabia, 1990; Sackler Museum, 2001. [5] She participated in the group exhibition Forces of change presented in 1994 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, where her work was described as "abstract expressionist". [6]
Her doctoral thesis in the history of Islamic art from Harvard University, [7] Beyond the symmetries of Islamic geometric patterns : the science of practical geometry and the process of Islamic design, made a "pioneering use of tessellation theory for the analysis of angular interlacing patterns". [8] She directed and designed the book Issam El-Said: Artist and Scholar published in 1989 by the Issam El-Said Foundation. [9] She taught and published on Islamic geometry. [10] She is an instructor at the Ceramics Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard University. [11] [12]
Museums Her ceramic pieces have been acquired by notable museums around the world such as: The British Museum; The Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where a 2019 gallery re-install includes a video interview with the artist alongside one of her pieces; [13] Harvard Art Museums /Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger, Arther M. Sackler Museum; Beit Al Qur'an, Bahrain, among others.