About
Rania Abdalla Kadafour is a Sudanese fiber artist based in Boston. Through a stuffed quilting technique she developed, Abdalla Kadafour explores themes of migration, erasure & assimilation, war, grief, and language. This technique creates textual reliefs resembling embossing—camouflaged within the image yet deeply embedded in the fabric. Her practice extends to engaging the public through her sewing circle series, inviting communal quilting and dialogue. Rania’s work examines how political events, memory, and objects accumulate history over time, reflecting on the gradual ways time reshapes the sentiment behind her subject matter.
Rania Abdalla Kadafour holds a BFA in Fibers from MassArt. She has exhibited work at Fenway Gallery, The Cambridge Art Association Galleries, Emerson College, and Goethe-Institut, Boston MA; Pillar Gallery + Projects, Concord NH; Elevated Thought, Lawrence MA; and Field Projects Gallery, NYC, amongst others. Abdalla Kadafour is a recipient of the Collective Futures Fund Sustaining Practice Grant, MassArt's Donis A. Dondis Travel Award, the Cambridge Arts Association Emerging Artist Award, two Kuhlman Foundation scholarships, and the MassArt Trustees 4-Year Full Scholarship. She completed a residency with R.A.R.O. Barcelona and has led a textile workshop at the Peabody Essex Museum.