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Muhannad Shono (Arabic: مهند شونو; born 1977, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi artist and curator. His mediums are installation, drawing, painting, and sculpture, often incorporating robotics to create disrupting effects.[1] Shono represented Saudi Arabia at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) with the large-scale installation The Teaching Tree.[2] He is the recipient of the 2021-2022 National Cultural Award in Visual Arts, Saudi Arabia, and was awarded French Order of Arts and Letters at the rank of Knight in 2024.
Early Life and Education
[edit]Muhannad Shono was born in 1977 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His parents, both Circassians whose families had fled Stalin’s persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in the Russian Caucasus, were born in Damascus, Syria. The father is of Chechen origin, and the mother is Karachay. Both settled in Muhajreen, where they met and got married. They immigrated to Saudi Arabia in 1974. Shono is their eldest son. He has a brother and a sister.
Shono has a BA in Architecture, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran (2000).
Career
[edit]Muhannad Shono’s practice foregrounds the irrepressible spirit of ideas, exploring the power of a living imagination to create new realities.[3] His work has been exhibited internationally and acquired by major international museums.
He is currently in Riyadh running his studio (Studio SHONO) at JAX District, Diriyah, and works as the contemporary art curator for the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 in Jeddah.
Shono represented Saudi Arabia at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Recent exhibitions include Forest Festival of the Arts, Okayama (2024); Louvre Abu Dhabi (2023); 6th Lyon Biennale (2022); Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2021); British Museum, London (2021, 2018); Desert X, Al Ula (2020); MACBA, Barcelona (2018). Shono is the recipient of the 2021-2022 National Cultural Award in Visual Arts, Saudi Arabia, and was awarded French Order of Arts and Letters at the rank of Knight in 2024.
Exhibitions
[edit]Biennales
2023 Letters in Light (Lines we Write), The Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
2022 The Teaching Tree, The National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia, la Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Reem Fadda.
2022 After the Fall, 6th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France.
2021 On Losing Meaning, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2020-21 BIENALSUR, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay.
Solo
2019 The Silence Is Still Talking, Athr, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Curated by Rahul Gudipudi.
2016 Children of Yam, Athr, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Group
2024 On Losing Meaning, Forest Festival of the Arts, Okayama, Japan.
2024 The Ground Day Breaks, Poetic Illuminations, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Diana Wechsler.
2023 And to Flounder in This Sea Is Sweet to Me, Sea Art Festival, Busan, South Korea.
2023 The Unseen, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2022 I See You Brightest in the Dark, Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[4]
2022 A Song of Silence, commission for Parcours Art Basel.
2022 On This Sacred Day, AlUla, Saudi Arabia.
2020 The Last Garden of Al-Khidr, I Love You Urgently 2139, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Curated by Maya El Khalil.
2020 The Lost Path, Desert X, Al Ula, Saudi Arabia. Curated by Raneem Farsi, Aya Aliriza & Neville Wakefield.
2019 Streams Dreams and Flow States, Naphtha, AL Khuzam Historical Palace, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
2019 The Caliph Seeks Asylum, Site-Specific Installation for the GAM Sculpture Garden, Torino, Italy.
2019 Spiritual * digital, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany.
2018 Albukhary Foundation Gallery, British Museum, London, UK. Curated by Venetia Porter.
2018 In The Open Or In Stealth, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. Curated by RAQS Media Collective.
2018 Al AShirah, The Clocks Are Striking Thirteen, Athr gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
2017 Living Ideas, UNPUBLISHED – artistic observations, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
2017 After the Wildly Improbable, HKW Haus der Kulturen der welt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Adania Shibli.
2017 Kunstresidenz, Bad Gastein, Austria.
2017 The Fifth Sun, Safar, 21,39, Jeddah Arts, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Curated by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath.
Collections
[edit]The Silent Press, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Approaching Stillness, The Black Gold Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Wall, The British Museum, London, UK.
The Book of Al, The Art Jameel Foundation, Dubai, UAE.
The Unseen, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE.
A Forgotten Place, Alserkal Advisory, Dubai, UAE.
Publications and Monographs
[edit]2024 Muhannad Shono. Works [2014-2024], Kehrer Verlag
Awards and Recognitions
[edit]2021-2022 National Cultural Award in Visual Arts, Saudi Arabia
2024 French Order of Arts and Letters at the rank of Knight
References
[edit]- ^ Shono, Muhannad, Hala Auji, Todd Reisz, and Alison Sperling. Muhannad Shono: Works [2014-2024]. Kehrer Verlag, 2024.
- ^ Shono, Muhannad, Reem Fadda. The Teaching Tree. Saudi Ministry of Culture, 2022. https://saudipavilion.org/content/uploads/2023/03/The-Teaching-Tree-Muhannad-Shono-Exhibition-Catalogue.pdf
- ^ Nysten, Anastasia, ed. 2024. Being Muhannad Shono. Selections, December 25, 2024. https://selectionsarts.com/being-muhannad-shono-introduction/
- ^ Rodowick, D.N.. 2024. Noor Riyadh: A New Visual Culture (Classic). Assouline. https://www.assouline.com/products/noor-riyadh-a-new-visual-culture-classic
Malbert, Roger, and Claire Gilman. 2023. Drawing in the Present Tense. Thames & Hudson.
Punj, Rajesh. 2023. From the Imagined World: A Conversation with Muhannad Shono. Sculpture, September 1, 2023. https://sculpturemagazine.art/from-the-imagined-world-a-conversation-with-muhannad-shono/
Al-Senussi, Alia, and Rebecca Anne Proctor. 2024. Art in Saudi Arabia: A New Creative Economy?. Hot Topics in the Art World.