Bio: Rema lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach in 2007 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Rema has been the recipient of multiple grants including the Davyd Whaley Foundation Artist-Teacher Grant in 2020, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2018, the Esalen Pacifica Prize in 2012, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2010. Rema’s work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Hyperallergic, CARLA, the Los Angeles Times, Fabrik, among others. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues like Emma Gray HQ, Edward Cella Gallery, Et al. Gallery, Hawthorn Contemporary, the Cue Art Foundation, Torrance Art Museum, and Arka Gallery in Vladivostok, Russia. Her work is included in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Works on Paper Collection at the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco.

The works of Rema Ghuloum are haunting, evocative creations that challenge our sensibilities while they expand our sense of self awareness. While her works could be described as abstract, expressionist, a new form of color field painting or an extension of any number of other idioms and genres, they are really syncretist creations that blend all of these influences together into a seamless whole. The etheric quality of her work owes as much to Edward Munch as Helen Frankenthaler, the chromatic punch of her pieces touch on the vibrancy of Morris Louis and Sam Glliam and even the sublter tones of Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma of Klint are not absent from her compositions. Most importantly however is that Ghuloum's works are unmistakably her own, having incorporated the lessons of art history with a technical virtuosity that marks her work as being in conversation with the strongest voices in contemporary art today. What is remarkable about her project is how her work brings us into contact with our own inner states of being. Thoughtful, dramatic, melodic, and symphonic are all words that have been used to describes the magnetic and entrancing effect that her paintings have on viewers.