My artistic practice examines how memory, erasure and survival take material and visual form in contexts shaped by war, displacement and queerness. I work across drawing, painting, textiles, sculpture, photography and installation, and I view these mediums as interconnected methods for studying cultural transmission. My research focuses on knowledge systems that dominant archives have failed to record, such as Bedouin tattoo traditions, clan based textile practices and oral history. I use decolonial and intersectional methodologies and work with critical fabulation to investigate how fragmented cultural memory can be accessed through material processes, speculative reconstruction and embodied research.

Trained in both traditional and contemporary art and design, and with more than twelve years of practice, I combine classical techniques with methods I have developed myself. These include using sleep to translate nightmares into line and creating Dictatorship Blue, a pigment made from bureaucratic ink collected during my movement across borders.

Education
I received a Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts from HDK Valand in 2024, a diploma in Visual Communication from Östra Grevie Folkhögskola in 2022, a degree in Design from Tishreen University in 2015, and a Bachelor's in Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Animation from the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Aleppo in 2014.

Awards
In 2025, I was named a Young Artist by the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, received the Vera and Göran Agnekils Award and won Ung Svensk Form 2025 with my project War Trauma, which was later featured in a national touring exhibition. I have also been awarded the Postnord Postal Stamp Sketch Assignment at ArkDes, a working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and earlier scholarships and nominations in both Syria and Sweden.

Exhibitions
My work has been shown internationally at institutions including the British Museum and SOAS University of London, Berlin Central Station, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Onboards Biennale in Antwerp, Dunkers kulturhus, Gallery Platform in Finland, Uncivilised in France and the Museum für Fotokopie in Germany, among others.

Collections
My works are represented in public and private collections, including the Homografiska Museum, Sta. Demonia Queer Art, the Tobison Foundation, Butterfly Effect Gallery, and Gallery SEAS, as well as collections in Syria, Germany, the United States, and beyond.

Email: aalqumit@gmail.com
Instagram (Work Progress): @alqumit