Alqumit Alhamad

Alqumit Alhamad (b. 1992, Jarash, Jordan) is a Syrian multidisciplinary artist based in Sweden. His artistic practice is informed by lived experiences of war, displacement, and queerness. He works across sculpture, drawing, painting, textile, illustration, and installation, combining archival research, traditional crafts, and sensory materials such as scent, sound, and tactility.

His approach critically engages systems of control and questions how histories are preserved, embodied, and transmitted. The process is grounded in long-term research and collaborations, with a focus on memory as a contested and evolving site. Rather than aiming for resolution, the work embraces fragmentation, contradiction, and constant reinvention.

Alhamad has been working professionally as an artist since 2014. He has held over 14 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 40 group exhibitions across Sweden, Europe, and the SWANA region.

He earned an MFA in Fine Arts from Valand Art Academy (2024, SE), a diploma in Visual Communication from Östra Grevie Public School (2022, SE), a degree in Design and Architecture from Tishreen University (2015, SY), and a BFA in Graphic Design and Animation from the Aleppo University of Fine and Applied Arts (2014, SY).

In 2025, Alhamad was named a Young Artist and received the Vera and Göran Agnekils Award from the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. That same year, his project “War Trauma” won the Ung Svensk Form 2025 (Young Swedish Design) competition, and he was awarded the PostNord postal stamp sketch assignment at ArkDes in Stockholm. He has also received the Al-Basel Award from Aleppo University and a one-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden). He was nominated for the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Young Leader Scholarship and the Bror Hjorth Award for Young Illustrators in Uppsala, Sweden.

His work has been exhibited in a range of international and Swedish galleries and institutions including Berlin Central Station (2017, DE), The British Museum (2019, UK), SEAS Brighton (2021, UK), Blå Stället Konsthall (2022, SE), Steneby Konsthall (2023, SE), Gallery Detriti – GIBCA Extended (2023, SE), Liljevalchs Konsthall (2024 and 2025, SE), Not Quite Konsthall (2024, SE), and Dunkers kulturhus (2025, SE), among others.

Alqumit Alhamad is a participant of the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies program for 2025/26.