Bio

Reem Rahim (b. Baghdad, Iraq, 1966) is a multi-disciplinary artist and entrepreneur. She received her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University; pursued Fine Arts studies at the Museum School in Boston, MA and Lorenzo di Medici in Florence, Italy; and attained her MFA from John F. Kennedy’s department of Arts & Consciousness Studies. She co-founded Numi Organic Tea in 1999 and her artwork was featured on the company’s original packaging.

 

Rahim immigrated with her family to Cleveland, Ohio as a child, where she grew up. She now resides in northern California. Her work is both personal and social-political in nature dealing with themes of oppression, injustice and loss. She finds her way into her subject matter via a call and response with her materials – a place to ideate, while transcending identification. Her aim is to question thinking and compel compassion while balancing harmony and dissonance.