Riim Saïd is an artist working across the bounds of medium and geography. Having grown up in Houston, Texas, she would begin seeking out new creative contexts—a tendency that remains central to her practice. As habitual stranger, new dimensionalities of memory, experience, and perception would increasingly open up within her artistic work. In 2011, guided by a real-life auger in rural Morocco amid regional revolutionary fervor, she bathed her artist-hands in ritual fires as part of a ceremony honoring the red sun and soil of the African continent. The moment sealed her resolve forever—that she would live according to the creative will of her hands, the global south her compass. Riim Saïd joins Maison Dora Maar as an artist of transcontinental origin, exploring the role of gender and imagination in the high stakes international venture of contemporary artmaking.
Riim Saïd
Visual artist

