Gouled is a recipient of the African Cultural Fund’s inaugural grant (2019), the Prince Claus Fund’s inaugural Seed Award (2021), the Sharjah Art Foundation's Production Programme Grant (2022), the Graham Foundation’s Research Grant (2023), the 421 Artistic Research Grant (2025) & the MyMA Artist Grant (2025) .
Their self-portrait photography work is included in a four year touring exhibition entitled 'Africa Fashion' commissioned by the V&A Museum in London (2022), it has subsequently been shown at the Brooklyn Museum (2023), the Portland Museum of Art (2023-2024), the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2024), the Field Museum (2025), the McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, Canada(2025-2026) & the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France (2026). Gouled has participated in the Lahti Biennial, Finland (2023), the 15th DAK'Art Biennale in Senegal as part of the Black Rock Senegal group exhibition ‘Encounters’ (2024), & most recently is the 18th International Triennial of Textile, Łódź, Poland (2025-2026).
Their collaborative film with Bristol based Somali poet and filmmaker Asmaa Jama 'The Season of Burning Things' (2021) has been screened at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in collaboration with the Goethe Institut and Theater Neumarkt’s ‘100 Ways to Say We program’. It has subsequently been screened at Oscar qualifying Black Star film festival (2022), BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica film festival (2022), the Arab film festival at the Barbican Center in London (2022), and at Art Basel Hong Kong (2023).
Their latest collaborative film ‘Except this Time Nothing Returns From the Ashes’ has had solo presentations at Spike Island Gallery Bristol in 2023, and at The Africa Center in Harlem, New York in 2024. It was most currently screened at the ICA, London in 2025 through the Bloomberg New Contemporaries program.
Gouled has received fellowships and residencies from Black Rock Senegal (2022), ARCAthens (2025), Onassis AiR (2025), the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2026) & MacDowell (2026).