Biography
Maitha Abdalla is an Emirati multidisciplinary artist whose practice crosses performance, video, installation and textile to examine adolescence, the body and transitional states. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design through the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation programme, undertook a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and participated in the AlUla Artists Residency in Saudi Arabia. She has exhibited at the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Japan, Proximities at the Seoul Museum of Art, and internationally across Europe and the Gulf. A commission for Abu Dhabi Art was presented at Cromwell Place in London. Her work has been described as existing in the slippages between soil and psyche.