(B. 1984, Kuwait)

Mohammed Alkouh is a visual artist whose work encompasses analog photography, drawings, archival materials, and hand-colored black and white photographs. Focusing on the collective memory of the Arab world with an emphasis on Kuwait, Alkouh recreates memories to capture what is typically overseen or missed due to the ephemeral nature of memory.  

Alkouh has participated in art residencies, exhibitions, and biennales, and his work has been published in books and received recognition in 2019 via ADPP and Award. Among his solo exhibitions are Tomorrow’s Past at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait, in 2014 and, a year later, Four Hands Can’t Clap at Sultan Gallery, Kuwait. Group exhibitions include The Place I Call Home, Ffoto Gallery in 2019; Save AlSawaber at Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait in 2019; Format Photography Festival, UK (2019); and The Nest, AlRiwaq, Bahrain (2016). In 2019, the Arab Documentary Photography Program awarded him for his work, Failaka Is a Beautiful Island, a film about a Kuwaiti island deserted after the Iraqi invasion.  

In 2022, Alkouh joined a residency at the Misk Art Institute, where he focused on his personal story about the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.