Ebecho Muslimova is a Dagestan-born, New York and Mexico City-based artist whose drawing and painting practice manifests a graphic trajectory of the personal and exposed, the comedic and the disquieting. Centered around the bold and sexually-liberated character of her alter ego, Fatebe, these works depict a shameless and free persona, exploring the world in ridiculous and impossible situations that revel in the celebration of carnal processes and bodily curiosity.
Muslimova received her BFA at Cooper Union in New York in 2010 and has presented solo exhibitions at London’s David Zwirner Gallery, Mendes Wood DM in São Paolo, Zurich’s Galerie Maria Bernheim, and White Flag Projects in St. Louis, as well as Magenta Plains, Drawing Center, and Room East in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel, ICA Miami, Zuzeum in Riga, Washington DC’s Hirshhorn Museum, and Swiss Institute New York, among others, and is included in the public collections of Paris’s Centre Pompidou, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MAMCO Geneva, Providence’s RISD Museum, New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, and many more. Large-scale murals have been commissioned for biennials in Belgrade and Ljubljana. Awarded the Borlem Prize in 2022, Muslimova’s work has also been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Mousse, Hyperallergic, and many other publications, as well as Jeffrey Deitch Unrealism: New Figurative Painting.
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