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Alqumit Alhamad is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is informed by lived experiences of war, displacement, and queerness. He works across sculpture, drawing, painting, textile, illustration, performance, and installation, combining artistic research, archival materials, traditional crafts, and sensory elements such as scent, sound, and tactility.

His approach critically engages systems of control and questions how histories are preserved, embodied, and transmitted. The process is grounded in long-term research and collaborations, with a focus on memory as a contested and evolving site. Rather than aiming for resolution, the work embraces fragmentation, contradiction, and constant reinvention.

Alhamad earned an MFA in Fine Arts from Valand Art Academy (2024), a diploma in Visual Communication from Östra Grevie Folkhögskola (2022), a degree in Design and Architecture from Tishreen University, and a BFA in Graphic Design and Animation from the Aleppo University of Fine and Applied Arts (2014).

In 2025, Alhamad was named a Young Artist and received the Vera and Göran Agnekils Award from the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. That same year, his project War Trauma won the Ung Svensk Form 2025 (Young Swedish Design) competition, where he was named a Young Designer, and he was awarded the Postnord postal stamp sketch assignment at ArkDes in Stockholm. Alhamad has also received the Al-Basel Award from Aleppo University and a one-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden). He was nominated for the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf's Young Leader Scholarship and for the Bror Hjorth Award for Young Illustrators in Uppsala, Sweden.

His work has been exhibited in a range of international and Swedish galleries and institutions including Berlin Central Station (2017, Germany), The British Museum (2019, United Kingdom), SOAS University of London (2019, United Kingdom), SEAS Brighton Gallery (2021, United Kingdom), Blå Stället Konsthall (2022, Sweden), Steneby Konsthall (2023, Sweden), Gallery Detriti – GIBCA Extended (2023, Sweden), Liljevalchs Konsthall (2024, 2025, Sweden), Not Quite Konsthall (2024, Sweden), and Dunkers kulturhus (2025, Sweden), among others.

Email: aalqumit@gmail.com

Instagram: @alqumit