Emii Alrai
b.1993, lives and works in Leeds
Contact: emiialrai@gmail.com
Education
2016-2018 University of Leeds, MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies
2011-16 University of Leeds, BA Fine Art (International)
2014-2015 École Supérieure d’art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée (Erasmus)
Exhibitions
Solo
2022 Title TBC, Eastside Projects (Birmingham)
2021 Title TBC Threshold Projects, (Leeds)
2021 Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts (London)
2020 The High Dam, The Tetley (Leeds)
2019 Tutelaries, VITRINE (London)
2019 House of Teeming Cattle, Two Queens (Leicester)
2018 An Ancient Quiver, GLOAM Gallery (Sheffield)
Duo Shows
2022 TBC, Duo show with Eve Tagny, Visual Arts Centre Clarington (Canada)
2019 Fallow, Duo show with Angus McCrum, The Rectory Projects (London)
Group Shows
2019 Odds, TOMA (Southend)
2017 Eternal Interstice, Ladybeck (Leeds)
2017 Chiens Amers/Bitter Hounds, performance with Blanche Godivier, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Leeds)
2017 The Hum, curated by Tžužjj, Caustic Coastal (Salford)
2017 Limbo Lambada, Hutt Collective (Nottingham)
2016 #1, FAHACS Project Space, University of Leeds (Leeds)
2016 The Art House Residency Exhibition, The Art House (Wakefield)
2016 FUAM Graduate Art Prize, The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery (Leeds)
2016 Space and Place, Left Bank (Leeds)
2016 And Again, University of Leeds Fine Art degree show (Leeds)
2016 Cinq, Untitled BCN, Barcelona (Spain)
2015 Entre Autre, Galérie M.A.D (Marseille)
Residencies + Awards + Other
2021 In-ruins Residency, Calabria, Italy *current*
2021 Triangle Astérides Residency, Marseille
2020 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
2020 Yorkshire Sculpture International Sculpture Network
2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International Engagement Artist (Yorkshire)
2018 The Tetley Artist Associate Programme (Yorkshire)
2018 Club : Making Matters commission, Yorkshire Sculpture International (Yorkshire)
2017 Club : Studio bursary, The Art House (Wakefield)
2016 FUAM Graduate Art Prize, The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery (Leeds)
2016 Graduate residency, The Art House (Wakefield)
Projects
Co-Founder and organiser of Nocturne (2016-2019)
2019 Making Marks, The Arab British Centre and Madeenah Kuwait
2017-19 Member of Club
2016 Experimental compositions Scores (2016) workshopped with soprano Juliet Fraser @ The Calder, The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
Publications + Features
2021 Capture, supported by Triangle Astérides and Fluxus Art Projects, Bruise Magazine
2020 In Conversation: Griselda Pollock and Emii Alrai, The Tetley
2020 tofeelclose.com with Eve Tagny, AKA Artist Run https://www.tofeelclose.com/
2020 Museums n’That podcast, Emii Alrai Museums n’That
2020 Souq Sounds with Emii Alrai, Sable radio, Souq Sounds
2018 The Sleep, #8 How To Sleep Faster, Arcadia Missa annual publication (London)
2018 The Bone Cruncher, Winter Solstice https://swan-song.co.uk/
2017 Limbo Lambada x isthisit? https://www.isthisitisthisit.com/limbo-lambada
Press
2021 Writing : Jerwood Solo Presentations by Marek Sullivan, Jerwood Arts
2021 Interview : Emii Alrai & Flora Fettah, Bruise Magazine
2021 Interview : Emii Alrai & Alexia Abed, Manifesto XXI
2020 Review : Emii Alrai, The High Dam, Holly Grange, Corridor 8
2020 tofeelclose AKA, akimbo
2020 Review : Emii Alrai, The High Dam, The White Pube
2019 Tutelaries : Top 7 Art Exhibitions to See in London, FAD Magazine
2019 Tutelaries, Angélica Fajardo, Corridor 8
2019 Tetley Artist Associate Programme, University of Leeds