Dalal Al-Obaidi
Artist
Biography
Dalal Al-Obaidi (b. 1996, Kuwait) is a painter whose practice engages questions of memory, place and identity, often through figurative compositions that blur the line between the personal and the collective. Her paintings move between psychological interiority, social structures and the outside world with sensitivity and restraint, using the body, gesture and spatial tension to explore lived experience within and beyond contemporary Kuwaiti society. Al-Obaidi studied at Central Saint Martins in London and lives and works in Kuwait. Her solo presentations include Time to Go at Sultan Gallery, Kuwait (2024) and Frogs, Jazz & Blisters at Taymour Grahne Projects, Dubai (2026). She has also shown in group exhibitions including Five Painters at Taymour Grahne Projects, Dubai (2026), I Am Not What I Am, I Become at Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2026), the MA Interim Show at Central Saint Martins, London (2025), and Threads in Lincoln, UK (2024).