Ria Sharma

Ria Sharma is a Dubai based artist. She was born in India in 1975. Being a Civil Engineer she has fulfilled a successful professional career in construction for 16 years. In 2009, she accidently found herself in the middle of paints and brushes. The stress free environment inexplicably changed her to the extent that she decided to follow her passion. She started practicing Art in Dubai in year 2009. With a desire to bring out goodness to society through art, she involved herself into projects that focused on social issues such as breast cancer awareness, women empowerment, refugee crises, Autism awareness & collaborating with special needs institutes such as Senses through non profit organizations

Ria is self-taught versatile artist but her true passion has been play of Cubism in her monochrome subjects. Her dynamic subjects are in rhythm with controlled cubist lines and powerful spirits that seek to burst from the constraints of the cubist shapes. Her work and style Cubism is covered by all leading newspapers of Dubai and TV. She has also been featured in International Art Magazines like "Emboss". Her work has won  Clyde & Co MENA awards 2019. With five very successful Solo Shows & and dozens of  international exhibitions, her work is owned by art lovers around the world. Her last Solo “CUFISM” was launched by Besh restaurant SHERATON Dubai.

She is also a modern Arabic Calligrapher

AWARDS: Clyde & Co. MENA award 2019

Member: Member of Tashkeel

Qualification

Civil Engineer B.E since 1998

Selected Exhibition

• 27^th Feb 2020 - 5^th Solo ‘CUFISM’ by Sheraton Hotel
• 20^th Feb - ‘Plasitic’ Group exhibition by Tashkeel
• 8th October 2019 - 4th Solo ‘Within and Beyond’ by Intercontinental
• 25th Sept - ‘Drifting to the East’- 3 artist exhibition by Etihad Modern At Gallery
• 15-28th March - 3rd Solo at IRC Sharjah
• 16Oct 2019 - TCF education-initiated auction at Palazzo Versace
• 19Sept – 29Sept2018 - 2^nd Solo “Trance at Eternity” RAK Cultural Foundation UAE         
• 17May to 17June - Gallery of Lights Ductac group Exhibition “Gallery of Lights”
• 18-21 April 2018 - World art Dubai, Trade centre, Dubai
• 16Feb-4th March - Ras Al Khaima Art Festival by AlQasmi Foundation
• 6th Jan2018 - Nomination and exhibition at Clyde and Co Mena award office, Dubai
• 18thDec -30 Dec 2017 - FACES PLACES – Two Artist Exhibition at Studio Seven Dubai
• 10thOct -31 Jan 2017 - Solo Exhibition for 3 months  at Z Gallery Sheikh Zayad Road
• 23-26-Nov 2017 - India art festival, New Delhi
• Oct 1- 10 Jan 2017 - A group Exhibition at R Gallery by Sofitel
• 18^th Aug -12 sept - A group Exhibition at studio seven
• 24May to 27June - Gallery of Lights Ductac group Exhibition “Gallery of Lights”
• 09 to 3July - Gallery 76 -  “Ramadan”
• 20-23April 2017 - Fabriano, in watercolours in Italy
• 06-9April 2017 - World art Dubai, Trade centre, Dubai, represented by Artequest
• 17^th March 2017 - Sikka art fair-Sandscape, for Mawaheb, at Bastakiyaneighborhood
• 3rd -8th March 2017 - Empowering girls through Education-Novetal hotel- by Ajala
• 1stDec-15thJan2017 - National Day celebration Etihad Modern Art gallery
• 23 Dec-Jan2017 - National Day celebration
• 22 Oct 2016 - Silent Auction for Jalila foundation by Alserkal group of companies
• 12-13 Oct 2016 - Jounun- at UNESCO headquarter Lebanon
• 6-9Oct 2016 - India Art Festival, Mumbai India
• 17-19Sep 2016 - the HOTEL show2016, Trade centre, Dubai
• 01 Sept 2016 - themed ‘Diversity’- Against the tide
• 08 June 2016 - Little Picasso, at Pullman JLT, Dubai ( for Senses Dubai)
• 29May 2016 - 2^nd Women peak performance summit, Abudhabi
• 08 April 2016 - Sandscape, for Mawaheb, at Bastakiyaneighborhood
• 06-9April 2016 - World art Dubai, Trade centre, Dubai, Stand E29

Selected Projects

Cubism: Being a Civil Engineering, generating artistic geometrical forms comes much natural to me. In my Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Cubism for me is the representation of different views of the subject pictured at the same time, also called multiple perspective, multiplicity, while Constructivism is influenced by common threads between the movements and simplification of geometric forms.

"The Denim Project" that challenged her storytelling abilities through illustrations in her cubic forms. It is to support Kenya based sex exploited women initiated through a series of fund-raising sustainable initiatives by UAE based The Ajala Project lead  in collaboration with Play for Smiles. She says that through this project she has achieved a higher potential

Architectural tour through travelogue

Contact details : @riaksharma, website: www.artofriaksharma.com, Email: bbinish@hotmail.com, Call:+971505584165