Rheim Alkadhi

Rheim Alkadhi lived first in Benghazi, Libya, and then between Baghdad and New England; raised by an American mother and an Iraqi father and attended public school in Iraq until the family returned to the United States at the start of the Iran–Iraq War.^[5]

• 2009: residency at Townhouse Gallery^[6] in Cairo, gathering material for the limited edition artist book "Destroyed in Baghdad / Repaired in Cairo: A Viewer's Manual to a Temporary Art Practice in the Auto Mechanics District". In 2009, the limited edition artist book "Post Cards From the Clandestine Troupe"^[7] was printed.
• 2010: one month in Itaewon, Seoul with the artist-run space DoBaeBacSa;^[8] also artist in residence at PØST in Los Angeles.^[9]
• 2011: artist in residence at Dar al Ma'mun in Tassoultante and then independent of institutional assistance in the village of Tahannaout, Al Haouz Province.
• 2012: artist in residence at Darat al Funun in Amman via the initiative of Rijin Sahakian and Sada for Contemporary Iraqi Art.^[10]
• 2012: as a temporary member of a household of women in the West Bank village of Jamma'in in Palestine, the project "Collective Knotting Together of Hairs"^[11] was developed with the local Women's Association, with Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation in Ramallah, and with Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem.
• 2014: developed the project "Communications From the Field of Contact (Each Hair Is a Tongue)"^[1] during a residency at the Sharjah Art Foundation.
• 2015 and 2016: created live presentations included "Eye Theatre Closes Its Doors and Opens Them Again", commissioned for the Asia Pacific Triennial in Australia,^[12] and "Köln Phantasm" developed and performed while a fellow in visual art at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.^[13]
• 2016: "Night Taxi", a multimedia suite of documents (video accompanied by meter, route, and fare) outlined milliseconds leading up to the crossing of an arbitrary geographical border.^[14]
• 2017: "Hairs of the Oppressed" was featured at once resolved and ongoing; a sculpture concept accompanied by the text "Script for Eleven Hairs" at Autonomes Cultur Centrum, Weimar. Rotating authorial concept acknowledges the collaborative emancipatory politics/method of Theatre of the Oppressed, on which this piece is based. ^{[citation needed]}
• 2018: participation in the experimental walking art school Spring Sessions across Jordan; later that year, a public staging at the migrant-run OBI market in Berlin, based on conversations and ongoing relationships initiated in that context. Displayed objects included: mock-up of geo-political extraction field; large block of Styrofoam for flotation; seven shoe fragments collected along migration routes; refugee housing in Europe for a family of eight; patterned blanket; eye of a needle.^[15]
• 2019: travel to various provinces of Iraq resulted in many of the elements featured in the ongoing framework and exhibition "Majnoon Field". ^{[citation needed]}
• 2020: Toward the Inalienable Right of the Dispossessed in the exhibition Beyond Walls at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart^[16]
• 2021: Arrival Points screening and exhibition at Haus der Statistik, Berlin^[17]
• 2022: Devastation on Your Beautiful Eyes exhibition at Beirut Art Center;^[18] Call for Immediate Reparations From the Waves of Our Mass Migration installation at the Trienniale Kleinplastik Fellbach;^[19] Speak, Then, Material Witness, in the Medium of Rebellion exhibition as teaching structure at Kunstverein Uelzen^[20]

Rheim Alkadhi's work was shown at the 12th Sharjah Biennial, at the New Museum,^[21] in the 2012 Jerusalem Show,^[22] at Documenta (13),^[23] and in the 2010 Cairo Biennial.

• 2010: Rheim Alkadhi received a grant from Art Matters^[24] and the Center for Cultural Innovation.;^[25] in 2009, awarded a Mid-Career Artist Fellowship from the California Community Foundation;^[26] in 2008, awarded a grant from the Arab Fund for Art and Culture;^[27] in 1990, received an award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and from 1990 to 1994 the Musicfest award for young artists.
• 2017: Mophradat^[28]
• 2017: Rockefeller Bellagio^[29]
• 2019: Berlin Senat Research Stipend^[30]
• 2019: AFAC^[31]
• 2020/2021: Künstlerische Forschung Berlin^[32]
• 2020: Guggenheim Foundation^[33]
• 2021: Art Matters^[34]
• 2021: Stiftung Kunstfonds^[35]

• When Artists Say We – Artists Space, New York – March 8 – April 29, 2006^[36] 
• Draw a Line and Follow It - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions – June 21 through August 20, 2006^[37]
• Eternal Flame: Imagining a Future at the End of the World - Redcat, Los Angeles – February 15 through April 8, 2007^[38]
• System Error: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna – February 3 through May 6, 2007^[39]
• OÙ? Scènes du Sud - Carré d'Art, Nîmes – June 13 through September 21, 2008 (group exhibition)^[40]  
• Veronica – Nichols Gallery, Pitzer Art Galleries – September 24 through December 11, 2009 (group exhibition)^[41]
• Exhibition for Adults and Children - Dobaebacsa, Seoul – April 1 through 26, 2010 (solo exhibition)^[42]
• What's Become of Us? - PØST, Los Angeles – November 2010
• The Page: An Interactive Exhibition of Artist Books - Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University^[43]
• 12th Cairo Biennial – Opera House, Cairo – December 12, 2010 through February 12, 2011
• Communitas. Among Others - Camera Austria, Graz – September 25, 2011 through January 1, 2012 (group exhibition)^[44]
• Lucky Today - Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (with Hiwa K Hiwa)^[45]
• Hesaplașma | Aftermath – Akbank Sanat, Istanbul – March 14 through May 17, 2012 (group exhibition)^[46]
• Documenta (13) And and and Platform, 2012^[47]
• Gestures in Time/The Jerusalem Show - West Bank and Jerusalem – November 1 through 15, 2012^[48]
• Here Is My Life Which I Devote to Learning About You – Darat al Funun, Amman – May 4 through 31, 2013 (solo exhibition)^[49]
• Alwan338 / Foundations – Al Riwaq Art Space, Adliya, Bahrain – March 3 through April 19, 2014^[50]
• Here and Elsewhere – New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City – July 16 through September 28, 2014 (group exhibition)^[51]
• 12th Sharjah Biennial: The Past, the Present, the Possible - Sharjah Art Foundation – March 5 through June 5, 2015^[52]
• Im Dickicht der Haare / Entangled in Hair – Grimmwelt Museum, Kassel – October 9, 2015 through une 5, 2016 (group exhibition)^[53]
• 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – Brisbane – November 21, 2015 through April 10, 2016 (group exhibition)^[12]
• Sites of Return – Beit Michael Sufan, Ramallah / Qalandiya International – October 10 through 31, 2016 (group exhibition)^[54]
• Why Not Ask Again? – Power Station of Art – November 11, 2016 through March 12, 2017 (11th Shanghai Bienniale curated by Raqs Media Collective)^[14]
• True Lies - Autonomes Cultur Centrum (ACC), Weimar – February 10 through May 7, 2017^[55]
• IM_MOBILITIES - Galerie KUB, Leipzig – June 10 through June 30, 2017 (group exhibition)^[56]
• Material Communities (Objects We Arrange in the Energy Field) - OBI Parkplatz, Berlin – October 7, 2018 (public staging)^[3]
• Rheim Alkadhi: Majnoon Field – Temporary Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Cologne – August 30 through December 15, 2019 (solo exhibition)^[57]

• Eye Theater Closes Its Doors and Opens Them Again – presented at Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015)^[58]
• Köln Phantasm – produced and performed at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2016); performed at Kunstgebäude Stuttgart (2017)^[3][59]
• Mosul Vapor – performed at Kunstgebäude Stuttgart (2017)^[59]
• View Through the Eye of a Needle - performed in Wadi Rum as part of Spring Sessions (2018)^[60]
• Our Current Dwelling Is Fire – produced at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center; performed at March Meeting, Sharjah (2018); and Videonale Scope7, Cologne (2019)^[61]

• My Lover in Unequal Parts – 'micro literature' based on found images from concurrent wars in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, 2006^[62]
• Archive of a digital practice comprising digital and narrative gendered constructions, mostly from found online material, 2007–2010^[63]
• Pictures from a Camera - photo-based poetry from the revolutionary fervor in North Africa, produced in 2011; introduction written for online journal Jadaliyya, translated to Arabic by Sinan Antoon and Bilal Khbeiz, 2011, 2012^[64]
• Picture City Body – produced in Beirut, commissioned by the New Museum's online platform, 2013^[65]
• Photo Manual Baghdad – This Long Century, 2014
• Public Directory - Makhzin 2: Feminisms, 2015