Category: Saudi Arabia
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Donia Alshetairy, born in Yafaa, Yemen, 1983. She is an artist based in Saudi Arabia, studied IT and is self-taught in graphic design and multimedia. Her passion for art inspired her to Pursue a degree in art. Al Shetairy’s artistic approach focuses on the concept of restoring one’s roots, a principle influenced by her studies…
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Manal bint Murshed Al-Harbi, who holds a PhD in sculpture in 2009, as the first Saudi sculptor to obtain a master’s degree and a doctorate in this field. She also obtained a high diploma in ceramics and polymer sciences from the Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland, in 2013. Manal bint Murshid Al-Harbi, who…
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Wafa Al Qunibit, an artist and trainer, earned her master’s degree from Savannah University in 2016, specializing in General Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), along with an Online Master of Business Administration from Columbus University. With over seven years of experience in various art forms such as carving, engraving, printing…
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(1920 – 2010) The style of painting that she is famous for is called “nagash painting”, or a fresco wall painting in the majlis, or front parlour, of the traditional Asir home. “Called ‘nagash’ in Arabic, the wall paintings were a mark of pride for a woman in her house.” They are composed of various…
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Ghadah AlRabee was born in Medina in 1979 and studied Home Economics and Art Education at Taibah University in Madina. She has taught at private and government schools for a while and organized various art workshops. Ghadah’s passion for drawing started since she was in the fourth grade of primary school. She taught herself and…
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Hend Al-Mansour, a multimedia visual artist, gets her inspiration from childhood memories of the strong women who raised her in Hofuf in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Folk tales and stories about historical Arab heroines unleash her creativity and nourish her vision. However, her journey into the art world began on a different path.…
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Few artists understand metamorphosis as keenly as Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan. Long invested in interrogating the gender-biased customs that impact the condition of women in Saudi Arabia, Al Dowayan is a sensitive yet critical witness to the cultural metamorphosis engulfing the Kingdom. Her practice, formally speaking, regularly shifts and evolves—from the assertive black and…
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Zahra BuAli is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and ceramist. From the figurative to the abstract, to the mixed media, she works with a multi-layered approach. Combines mediums and techniques, challenges boundaries, superimposes layers of form, color, and space. Her work is strongly linked to her constant search into identity, cultural history, and influences. A professional…
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Shadia was born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and became a well-known artist in the Arab World. She is a painter, photographer and creates installations. Starting as a painter, Shadia’s work switched to bigger volumes that found their way moving out of the canvas and into space. In part of her work, Shadia documents phenomena along…
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Hanan Abdullah Salem Bahamdan is a portrait painter who has exhibited all over the Middle East and Europe. In 2005 she became Sotheby’s first female Saudi artist when her oil portrait painting Mannci sold at three times its top estimate, at the auction house’s first sale of modern and contemporary Arab and Iranian art. Thus,…
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Samia Muhammad Khashoggi was born in 1958 in the city of Abha (Saudi Arabia). She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Montfort University, Leicester and a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Kingston University in Britain. She is an artist, curator, researcher and educator. Khashoggi is the first Saudi woman to work as…
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Ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and multimedia installation, the artistic practice of Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine) imbues forms, techniques, concepts, and spatial constructs that define Arab culture with contemporary awareness. Her work spans a variety of materials and techniques and often revolves around reinterpreting geometric patterns as a highly codified and philosophical mode…