Rema Ghuloum’s work focuses her viewer on the present, while at the same time questioning how that experience is ordered by the past. Her works are generous and robust. They offer us an opportunity to navigate vision with both eye and spirit, to sense both our own presence before her works, and the pictorial one she has crafted.
Rema Ghuloum (b. 1978, North Hollywood, CA) received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, CA) in 2007 and her MFA from California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA) in 2010.
Current and upcoming projects include "The Sky Has a Thousand Windows" (Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA) and "When the Day is Done" (David De Boer, Antwerp, Belgium). Recent institutional projects include, "Color Fields" (2023, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA) and "Shaping Gravity: Art Beyond the Picture Plane" (2023, Forest Lawn Museum, Los Angeles, CA).
Recent solo exhibitions include Et al. (San Francisco, CA); Emma Grey HQ (Los Angeles, CA); Edward Cella Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Five Car Garage (Santa Monica, CA); Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY); Contemporary Art Matters (Columbus, OH); Hawthorn Contemporary (Milwaukee, WI); Jacob’s (Los Angeles, CA) and Sonce Alexander Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). Other recent group exhibitions include The Pit (Los Angeles, CA); Make Room (Los Angeles, CA); La Loma Projects (Los Angeles, CA); Odd Ark LA (Los Angeles, CA); Part 2 Gallery (Oakland, CA); Harris Gallery, University of Laverne (Laverne, CA); Five Car Garage (Santa Monica, CA); Nathalie Karg (New York, NY); Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY); Taymore Grahne Projects (London, UK); Meyer Reigger (Berlin, Germany) and Baik Gallery (Seoul, Korea). Ghuloum’s work is included in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Works on Paper Collection at the Legion of Honor Museum (San Francisco, CA). Ghuloum’s work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Hyperallergic, CARLA, the Los Angeles Times, Fabrik, and LA Weekly. Ghuloum lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Selected Works
EXHIBITIONS
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Refusing Identification, Not Identity: Contemporary Positions in Abstraction
By Jonathan Griffin | April 2, 2024
The Best Art I Saw in 2023 - Most Transcendent Solo Show
Rema Ghuloum
By Sarah Hotchkiss| April 8, 2023
Rema Ghuloum at Five Car Garage
By Jessica Simmons-Reid | November 25, 2020
CRITICS’ PICKS LOS ANGELES = Rema Ghuloum | Edward Cella Art & Architecture
By Annabel Osberg | January 12, 2019 - March 16, 2019
An Artist Uses Abstraction to Express the Loss of Her Sisters
By Daniel Gerwin | February