Alia Farid lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has had solo exhibitions in Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden, Whitney Biennial, Diriyah Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001 in MoMA PS1, Yokohama Triennale and Asia Pacific Triennial.

Alia has a BFA from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas (San Juan), a MS in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge), and a MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). She received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award in 2023, and from 2023-24 was the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.