“My paintings are emotional. They are dimensional spaces that shift and transform. They communicate the contrasts of our human experience visually, viscerally, and psychologically through color, texture, and surface. They reflect presence and absence simultaneously. The paintings emerge from building up the surface with thin stains of paint and sanding in between to preserve the previous layers. This allows for the memory of the painting to be subtly visible, appearing and then dissolving, creating a surface that breathes and remembers.”






                    

EDUCATION

MFA Degree, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2010
BFA Degree in Drawing and Painting, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 2007

EXHIBITION HISTORY

Selected Solo Exhibitions
After Night, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA 2020
Ether Drawings, Artsy Online Exhibition, Edward Cella Gallery, 2020
Pink Sky, Red Sea, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Love is a Feeling, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
The Sun Appeared White and Without its Rays, Et al., San Francisco, CA, 2018 Walking in the Dark, Jacob’s, Los Angeles, 2018
A Sky With Edges, Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015

Selected Two Person and Group Exhibitions
From Morning Til Night, We Should Never Rely On A Single Thing, Curated by Tomory Dodge at Philip Martin Gallery, LA, CA 2021
Flying Colors, Curated by Dion Johnson, Contemporary Art Matters, CI, OH, 2021 Like Ghosts: New Works by Rema Ghuloum and H.K. Zamani, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, 2018

GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

Davyd Whaley Artist Teacher Grant, Davyd Whaley Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY, 2018 Adolf and Esther Gotlieb Emergency Grant, 2017

Esalen Pacifica Prize Recipient, Big Sur, CA & Vladivostok, Russia, 2012

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipient, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY, 2010
Joan Mitchell Center Artist in Residence Program, New Orleans, LA, 2018
Joan Mitchell Center Pilot Artist in Residence Program, New Orleans, LA, 2013 Vermont Studio Center, Artist in Residence, Johnson, VT, 2016

Esalen Pacifica Prize Artist in Residence Program, Big Sur, AA , 2012

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rema Ghuloum at Five Car Garage, Jessica Simmons, CARLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Rema Ghhuloum, “After Night,” Art Forum “Must See,” Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Arts At Home: May 14 - 17, poem from home, Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, CA

“Children of the Sun“ at LADIES’ ROOM, Jessica Simmons, CARLA. Los Angeles, CA, 2019
In a California Kind of Mood, Todd Mrozinski, Urban Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2019

An Artist Uses Abstraction to Express the Loss of her Sisters, Daniel Gerwin, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Rema Ghuloum at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Annabel Osberg, Art Forum Critics' Picks, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

Top Ten Paintings at ALAC, Katie Kirk, Maake Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, 2019 Where to Find Fantastic Beasts? At Big Pictures Los Angeles 'Airtight Garage,’ David Pagel, LA Times, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Like Ghosts: New Works by Rema Ghuloum and HK Zamani at Jaus, Lorrain Heitzman, Art and Cake, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Abstraction in the Singular Opens at Bentley Gallery, Arizona Foothills Magazine, by Nicole Royse, AZ, 2017
Abstraction in the Singular Opens at Bentley Gallery, Arizona Foothills Magazine, by Nicole Royse, AZ, 2017
Abstraction in the Singular at Bentley Gallery, Art Ltd. Deborah Ross, Phoenix, AZ, 2017
The Collectivists: The Brand Library and Art Center, Diversions LA, Genie Davis, Los Angeles, CA 2017
The Brand Library Celebrates LA Art Collectives, Art and Cake, Lorraine Heitzman, Los Angeles, CA 2017
East West Flower Color Riot Pilot, ArtILike, Moto Okawa, Los Angeles, CA 2015
Easy Reader News: Breathing Life into and Empty Space, Bondo Wyszpolski, Los Angeles, CA 2015

Fabrik 26, Emergent Presence; Fresh Faces in Art: 8 La Artists You Should Know, Kio Griffith; ARTRA, Los Angeles, 2014
Los Angeles I am Yours: Last Night Expression Saved My Life, Cliff Eberly, Los Angles, CA, 2014

Unplugged Electric, Are Friends Electric?, David Pagel, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Dough on the Go!: No Region Would, Doug Harvey, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Los Angeles Times Art Review: 'Seven Young Los Angeles Painters I Like' at George Lawson Gallery, Leah Ollman, Los Angeles CA, 2012
Cue Presents Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipients, 2010 MFA Grant, Risa Puleo, New York NY 2010
The Independent: Artist Bring Spatium Sets to UCSB, Aly Comingore, Santa Barbara CA, 2010
SF Gate City Brights: Pay Attention, JD Beltran, San Francisco CA, 2010
Without, Erika Cooke, Los Angeles CA, 2009

INTERVIEWS

“Life Line, An Interview with Rema Ghuloum” Compound-Ed 2: Radical Empathy “What artists Listen to Podcast: Episode 48,” Pia Pack, 6/2020
“Studio Chat,” Edward Cella, 6/2020
“Voyage LA,” Sarah Abrahms, 5/2018

"Young Space," Kate Mothes, 1/2017
"In the Make," Lydia O'Reilly, 9/2016
“GYST Radio – Manual History Machines,” Kara Tome, 1/2015 “From the Studio,” Carol Pulitzer, 6/2013
“Artist Interview, currently residing in LA,” Shanna Waddell, 11/2011