MEDIA COVERAGE
This section highlights media coverage of Maysaloun Faraj’s work, including special announcements, online articles, interviews, and documentaries, reflecting the wide recognition of her artistic practice.
2025 ARTICLE Roots and Horizons: T/Racing Time (Selected works 2005-25), Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait @capkuwait 11 Nov - 6 Dec 2025 by Selections Arts @selections_arts.
2024 SOLO EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT Let Us Be Light Galerie Mark Hachem Paris, 18 - 25 Sept 2024.
2023 OPEN STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT In My Home Are Many Homes, 15 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JH, 9-11 June 2023.
2023 ARTICLE HOME Through the Eyes of Maysaloun Faraj, by Manar Al-Mutairi for Ithra Magazine, 31 July 2023.
2023 GROUP EXHIBITION Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics British Museum, 7 Oct 2022 - 17 Sept 2023
History in Ruins (Earthstone and raffia, 30x60cm, 2005 Collection of the British Museum)
Curated by Dr Venetia Porter, I am proud to announce that my ceramic work titled ‘History in Ruins’ is part of this small yet powerful exhibition currently on show at the British Museum. “From the land between the two rivers, I pick up in my mind’s eye remnants of pages from an ancient past scripted on clay tablets, where man first recorded his deeds and victories, and recreate my own. I ‘sew’ them together in an act of healing and hope. I stand them tall and proud, like an open gate, defiant and dignified like our precious date palms, like our people, like our spirit. Our history, ‘world’ history, is in ruins; shattered and burnt to the ground.”
2023 GROUP EXHIBITION Menart Fair (Middle East & North Africa Art), Belgium Brussels, 2-5 February 2003.
2022 SOLO EXHIBITION HOME Lockdown 2020-22, Galerie Mark Hachem, 9 - 22 June 2022, 28 Place des Vosges, Paris.
2022 ARTICLE Teatime with Dates and Matisse by Rawaa Talas for the Arab News, 17 November 2022.
2022 ARTICLE It’s Nice That A “fusion of east and west, Maysaloun Faraj sees art as an important means for self-exploration, by Olivia Hingley, 5 May 2022.
2023 ARTICLE European Ovation for Artists of Iraqi Descent by Dr Shakir Mustafa reviewing the latest accomplishments of four artists, including Suad al-Attar, Maysaloun Faraj, Hussain Ali Harba and Athier Mousawi.
2023 ARTICLE Art, Community and Social Media in Maysaloun Faraj’s Contemporary Work by Dr Shakir Mustafa, Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Volume 17, Numbers 1&2 www.intellectbooks.com, 8 March 2023.
2022 ARTICLE Fee Ibtikar al-Jamal’ (In Creating Beauty) 24 October 2022, by Farouq Salloum.
2022 GROUP EXHIBITION Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland, Flowers Gallery, 13 July - 3 Sept 2022.
2022 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj Reconstructs her Home at Mark Hachem Gallery by Hadani Dairi for Annahar Newspaper, 18 June 2022.
2021 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj Documents This Surreal Time of Pandemic in ‘Home’ Series, Dirty Barn by Miray Sincer, May 2021.
2022 ARTICLE, Farouq Selloum الشكل الهندسي والبريق اللوني ثنائية الجوهر البصري, 8 June 2022
2020 ARTICLE Iraqi Artist Maysaloun Faraj on Art And Identity In Isolation And Beyond, Scene Arabia by Dalia Awad, 13 May 2020.
2022 ARTICLE The Spaces Selects 5 inspiring creatives to follow on Instagram, by Marcia Veiga.
2020 ARTICLE Stay Home: Draw Home: Domestic vantage points, Iraq-style Ahram Online by Rania Khallaf, 23 June 2020.
2020 GROUP EXHIBITION Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19, Middle East Institute Washington USA.
2020 ARTICLE Coronavirus and art: How Middle East artists have responded to lockdown by Tim Cornwell, 1 May 2020.
2019 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj: Flying Without Wings.Arab Art Online
2009 Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2020 ARTICLE Artists in Quarantine, Selections Arts, 9 March 2020.
2016 ABOUT Ibrahimi Collection, Amman, Jordan.
2018 Shooting Stars, Atelier 2031 - Cité internationale des arts 8 March 2018.
2017 Massimo Cedrini Art Gallery, Selections Arts.
2017 Cité International des Arts, Al-Mansouria Foundation, 18 Oct 2017.
2014 War Resisters League, On US Escalation Against Iraq and Syria, 11 Oct 2014.
2013 Picturing Politics Learning from Artists’ Responses to the Iraq War a Decade on, by Alan Ingram, 12 March 2013.
IN THE MEDIA
2025 DOCUMENTARY Roots and Horizons: T/Racing Time (Selected works 2005-25) at Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait @capkuwait 11 Nov - 6 Dec 2025, by AlArabiya TV, .
2023 ART MINUTE DOCUMENTARY, Art Minute by Sophie Kazan 27 July 2023.
2013 DOCUMENTARY Hadeethun Akher Interview with Ricardo Karam for AlSharqia TV Channel 2013.
2007 DOCUMENTARY Stolen Dreams directed by Christine Garabedian and introduced by Raghi Omar, following the artists Maysaloun Faraj, Hana Mal Allah and Rashad Selim in the lead up to the exhibition: Sophisticated Ways in the Destruction of an Ancient Cityheld at Ayagallery 2007. A two-part online feature is viewable on Witness.
2006 DOCUMENTARY Art & Artist: Maysaloun Faraj by Asmahan al-Karjousli.
2006 Leighton House Museum would like to thank Maysaloun Faraj at Aya Gallery for her support of this event.
2004 Carrying the Torch for Iraqi Art, by Karen Debrowska for Bradt Travel Guides.
1995 Getty Images by Maher Attar.