Sophia Al-Maria

Sophia Al-Maria is an artist, writer and film-maker, born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1983. She developed the idea of Gulf Futurism, which describes the mix of Western cultural influences and rapid modernisation in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine and she is a contributing editor at Bidoun. Her work has been shown at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale and Tate Britain.