Exhibitions

Shadia has exhibited in Saudi Arabia, the Arab World, USA and Europe.
Recent exhibitions included

2019: 11 February Al-Madinah exhibition (Ma'an), Saudi Arabia.

2017: 8 October – 6 January Desert to Delta. Art museum University of Memphis, USA.

2015: The View from Inside exhibition, FotoFest, Abu Dhabi.

2014: joined Al-Moalqat exhibition. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

2014: joined Al-Hajj exhibition in Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris.

2013 and 2014: 21-39 group exhibition–Jeddah Saudi Arabia.

2012: Shadia participated in Seeing is believing, a charity auction, a collaboration between Standard Chartered Bank and the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness.

2012: November, joined " One Thousand and One Night " art exhibition. Institut du Monde Arabe. Paris.  

2012: joined the controversial exhibition Le Corps Découvert (The Body Revealed) at L’Institut du Monde Arabe. Paris. 

2012: October, joined the celebration of L’Institut du Monde Arabe’s 25th anniversary, by showing an important exhibition entitled 25 Years of Arab creativity.

2012: joined Tessellation Make up, Galerri Zilberman-Istanbul- Tirki, Sep15.

2012: was short listed for The 2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Nominated by Ramin Salsali private museum.

2012: joined Art Dubai, 21 March, with some of ”The Supreme Ka'aba of God" collection  tableaux. 

2011: Venice 54 art Biennale With her author sister raja she represented Saudi Arabia with the "The Black Arch” installation.

2010: Dolmun Museum She was among the artists featured as part of the cultural program of the Saudi Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Shanghai, China, called Nabat.

2008, 2009, 2010: Shadia Alem was among the artists featured on the Edge of Arabia tour moving between London 2008, Venice 2008, Berlin 2010, and Istanbul 2010.

2007: Panorama Albareh art Gallery, Bahrain.

2005: Negative No More, KUNST Museum Bonn, Germany; Institut du Monde Arabe Paris, and Cultural center, Abu Dhabi; she was among the artists featured in contemporary Arab artist Languages of the desert.

2004: All Is Changed, 9 /11, Marx Gallery, Lille, France.

2004, 2009: Jah’s Eye, Space Acacia, Lille, France. 2009 Museum Montparnasse, Paris.

2003: L’estampe Arabe Contemporaine, Thionville, France.

2003: Arab Illustrators of Children’s Books, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris.

1999/2002: Djinnyat Lar, sponsored and published by Al-Mansouria Foundation for Art and Culture, moving between Paris, Euro Art Geneva, Beirut, The National Museum in Riyadh, London and the contemporary museum in Seoul, Korea.

1994: Faces and Cities, the House of Artists Gallery, Jeddah.

1993: (In Between) Redha Art Gallery, Jeddah.

1999: Sings, solo exhibition, Roshan Gallery, organized by Al-Mansouria association. Jeddah.