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 Dakar Biennale in Senegal as part of the Black Rock Senegal group exhibition ‘Encounters’ (2024), the 18th International Triennial of Textile, Łódź, Poland (2025-2026), & was most recently selected for the 15th Rencontres de Bamako-African Biennial of Photography (2026-2027).
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). The film won the 'New Cinema Award' at the Berwick Film Festival, UK in 2024.
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 has since been exhibited at the ICA, London (2025) through the Bloomberg 'New Contemporaries' program, and most recently included in the ‘Red Winds, Coral Worlds’ exhibition at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah (2026).
Gouled has received fellowships and residencies from Black Rock Senegal (2022), ARCAthens (2025), Onassis AiR (2025), Delfina Foundation (2026), the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2026) & MacDowell (2026).
Email: gouledabdi7@gmail.com