GHIA HADDAD
Location:
Dubai - UAE

ARTIST BIO
Ghia holds BAs in Graphic Design and Art History and an MA in Museum Studies. Her artwork has been featured in Art Seen, All She Makes, Artist Talk, WUA Magazine, and Outlook India and showcased in 13 online exhibitions.
She exhibited solo at World Art Dubai in 2022 and 2024, with a third show planned for April 2025, and at Colorado's Bean Plant Studio in 2023. In Dubai, her artwork showed at Hubspace Gallery, Time-Out Market, Cross-Cultures Gallery, and Le Meridien, and in Kuwait at Boushahri Gallery.
In the US, Ghia’s work has featured in Chicago's Occupy the Moment, Sandy Spring Museum's What is Ours, Milwaukee’s Feed Your Soul, and Sacramento's A Taste of Art. She also exhibited at Woman Made Gallery, Circle Gallery, and UNC Greeley.
Ghia frequently gives art talks and was recently interviewed by WUAM and Curator’s Salon Podcasts. Her work is available online on Saatchi Art.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Fiber arts have existed for millennia, yet Western art has long relegated them to an inferior status compared to painting and sculpture, largely due to their associations with femininity and domesticity. Fiber art from the Global South was labeled “primitive” or “exotic” and viewed through a colonial lens, dismissing its cultural context and reducing it to mere curiosity. The Western canon prioritized masculine and Western forms, erasing countless stories while appropriating Eastern and Indigenous art to react to its over-industrialized realities.
My artwork addresses these omissions by weaving textile, string, yarn, and thread around painted figures. Fabrics jut from the canvas, declaring, “I am here!” and inviting viewers to touch (yes, touch!) and interact. My body of work examines the spaces in which we each exist as a result of the shared experience of our people, our land, the colors that tie us down, and those that liberate us.




