Dalia
Kuwaiti, B. 2000
Dalia is a Kuwaiti artist and recent graduate with a BFA in Interior Design at Parsons School of Design, NYC. In her adolescence, she began documenting her observations of Kuwait’s architecture and public infrastructure through drawing, inventing her affinity with her surroundings. Scroll through to explore Dalia's artworks and extended biography.
Interview: Dalia in Conversation with Elina Sairanen
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Biography
Born in 2000, Dalia is a Kuwaiti artist and recent graduate with a BFA in Interior Design at Parsons School of Design, NYC. In her adolescence, she began documenting her observations of Kuwait’s architecture and public infrastructure through drawing, inventing her affinity with her surroundings. As she progressed in her studies, she refined her drawing skills to explore spatial design, experimenting extensively with perspective.
Inspired by the abstract works of Sarah Sze and Julie Mehretu, Dalia's artworks depict figures with elongated limbs and expanded fields of view. Her vibrant compositions aim to capture coinciding moments of time and space from a busy world, often distorting scale and distance. These artworks are created with an elevated viewpoint in mind, orchestrating multiple perspectives without a singular vanishing point. Dalia expresses youthful memories and complex emotions through a lively color palette and a confident use of pastels and colored pencils.
“I started to sketch to unravel my momentous reaction to my environment and reinvent my belonging to it. The paths I carve through space - walking Souk Al-Mubarkiya in Kuwait and navigating MTA subway stations in New York - feel too immense to internalize. I am compelled to articulate the capacity of my attention and project these memories onto paper by drawing.”
Dalia currently resides in Brooklyn and is set to begin her Masters in Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.