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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023, Maqam, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2022, Sensu Lato Chapter 2, Tabari Artspace Dubai, UAE

2022, Sensu Lato Chapter 1, Tabari Artspace Dubai, UAE

2021, Pulse, Jossa by Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

2021, Port Authority Chapter 2, Foundry, Downtown Dubai, UAE

2021, Port Authority Chapter 1, Foundry, Downtown Dubai, UAE

2020, The Cup and The Saucer, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2020, Pop up The Cup and The Saucer, Al Quoz Art Festival, AlSerkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025, Observers of Change. Collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Etihad Museum, Dubai, UAE

2025, Undo Planet, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2025, In Its Presence, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2025, Rays, Ripples, Residue: Ghosts of Arrival, 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2025, The Rain Doesn’t Want to Touch the Ground, Gapado AiR, Jeju, South Korea

2025, So Tender Under the Stars, Aranya Art Center, Chapel of Sound, Aranya Jinshanling, Chengde, Hebei Province, China

2024, Undo Planet, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2024, Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2024, Eco(ed) Visions, A4 Space by Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

2024, Encounters at Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE

2024, Bawwaba Section at Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE

2023 Eco(ed) Visions, Concrete (Alserkal Avenue), Dubai, UAE

2023, Art Here, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE

2023, GEOPOETICS OF THE UAE, Brussels, Belgium

2022, East – East 東 – الشرق UAE meets Japan Vol. 5, Atami Blues, Atami, Japan

2022, Neptune, Beyond Emerging Artists, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy

2022, Portrait of The Nation II, Manarat Al Saadiyat, UAE

2021, Neptune, Beyond Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, UAE

2021, Between The Sky and The Earth, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA

2021, Curio Shop, Block House, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2021, Interconnection, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE 2020, Untitled Love,The Farjam Foundation, DIFC Dubai, UAE

2020, This Too Shall Pass, Sotheby’s Dubai International Financial District, Dubai, UAE

2019, Terror Glass in Their Cell, group exhibition, Satellite, Dubai, UAE

2019, Ward Gallery, group exhibition Dubai design district, Dubai, UAE

2019, Cuadro, Gallery group exhibition Dubai International Financial District, Dubai, UAE

2019, Co-curated Bait Juma, BAIT15 Abu Dhabi, UAE

2019, BAIT15 Art Dubai UAE NOW, Dubai, UAE

2019, 3 Wholes, Putting for Pleasure and Politics, Al Quoz Art Festival, AlSerkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

2019, Palindrome Echo, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE

2018, 3 Wholes, Putting for Pleasure and Politics, The East Plaza, The Arts Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2018, Alibadah, duo exhibition with Mohamed Al Mazroie, Project Space NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2017, Hitchhike to Plato’s Cave, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2017, Earlier Emotions, Sikka Art Fair – Villa 38, Dubai, UAE

2016, InvisibleWhite, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2016, Inconsistent Sorrys, National Theater, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2015, Citizens of Cake, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

2014, Sankofa, The Space – two-four 54, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2013, Follo(wing) – 87 Christopher St, New York City, USA

2012, H3, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011, Le Village Est Tranquille La Nuit, Department of Sud-Est – Jacmel, Haïti

2011, FabricFork, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York City, USA

2011, Senior Show, Parsons 25E 13 St, New York City, USA

2010, Sola Light, Aronson Gallery, New York City, USA

2010, Re-Dress, United Nude (Show Room), New York City, USA

2010, Bio-o, Glass Corner Gallery (Parsons The New School for Design), New York City, USA

2009, Flexible Fairytale, Donghia Gallery Parsons, New York City, USA

2008, Bathing Senses, Glass Corner Gallery, New York City, USA

2007, Drawings as Drawings, (State University of New York), Grosvenor Gallery, Cobleskill-NY, USA

2007, Kum-Ba-Yah, The Gathering – United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain UAE

 

ART FAIRS

2023, Art Dubai

2021, Abu Dhabi Art, Beyond Emerging Artists

 

BIENNIALS

2025, KAWRUH: Land of Rooted Practices, Biennale Jogja 18 2025, Yogyakarta Region, Indonesia

2025, Sharjah Biennal 16th, Sharjah, UAE

2024, Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2024, 15th Gwangju Biennale (Africa pavilion), Republic of Korea

2024, 14th Bamako Encounters – The African Biennal of Photography, Bamako, Mali

2022, 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

 

COMMISSIONS

2025, The Big Egg Hunt, commissioned by Elephant Family, Clarence Court and Jumeirah Carlton Tower

2021, Beyond Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art

2016, Zabeel Park ‐ Dubai Municipality, interactive public art titled “Co‐Collide.3”, Dubai, UAE

2016, Manarat Al Saadiyat, an interactive installation titled “Co‐collide.2”, Abu Dhabi, UAE Emirates

2016, Fine Arts Society, The 34th annual exhibition “Noah’s Ark” interactive public art titled “Co‐Collide.1”, Sharjah, UAE

 

SELECT COLLECTIONS & ACQUISITIONS

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Farjam Foundation

Barjeel Art Foundation

UAE Unlimited

UAE Embassy, São Paulo, Brazil

UN Refugee Agency, Paris

 

FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS

2025, Artist in Residence, Aranya Jinshanling, Beijing, China

2025, Gapado AiR International Residency, South Korea

2025, K21 Art Prize (Shortlisted)

2024, ARD Art Institution, Cairo, Egypt

2024, Artists in Residencia, by Galería Continua and La Residencia Belmond, Mallorca, Spain

2023, Artist in Residence, The Royal Commission for AlUla, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2022, Atami Art Grant

2019, Bauhaus 100th Anniversary, Award, Goethe-Institut and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin

2016-2017, SEAF-Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and Rhode Island School of Design Abu Dhabi and New York

2012, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012, Earthship Biotecture, Taos, New Mexico, USA

2011, FAARM formerly known as (Studio Unité) New York City, USA & Jacmel, Haiti

2010, SIM City – Sustainable Infrastructure Modeling, Harlem Park, Baltimore, USA

2010, DEED (Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design), New York City, USA and Santiago Zamora, Guatemala

2008-2011, EDAAD Scholarship Foundation – certificate of merit and grant in recognition of achievement in the field of architectural design

2008, Dean’s List – Parsons the New School for Design

2007, The Near East and South Asia Undergraduate Exchange Program, SUNY Cobleskill, New York

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND TEACHING

2023, Fiker Institute x Dubai Culture, Speaker Invitation, On Building Arab Creative Economies: Challenges and Opportunities

2022, Reimagining Home, Panel Discussion, ADMAF, UAE

2022, Artist Talk, NYUAD, UAE

2022, Warehouse421 Children’s Workshop, UAE

2021, Panel Discussion, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA

2021, Abu Dhabi Art Master Class, UAE

2021, Seminar, a-Amber Network Festival, Berlin

2021, Culture Summit, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2020, Seminar, Claremont University Centre for Business Management in The Arts, Los Angeles, USA

2020, Visiting Artist and Contributor, Curatorial Programme, NYUAD, UAE

2018-21 BAIT15 – Co-founder, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2017, The Art of Re(creation) Workshops, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2011, Pre College Summer Program, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA

 

EDUCATION

2011, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Parsons The New School for Design, NY, USA