Jameel Arts Centre

Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to Jameel Arts Centre.

Artists

Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.

Christopher Benton

Guest Artist

Yazan Khalili

Guest Artist

Asad Raza

Guest Artist

Jumana Emil Abboud

Guest Artist

Lawrence Lek

Guest Artist

Dora Longo Bahia

Guest Artist

Cinthia Marcelle

Guest Artist

Seher Naveed

Guest Artist

Nazgol Ansarinia

Guest Artist

Fayçal Baghriche

Guest Artist

Mirna Bamieh

Guest Artist

Abel Barroso Arencibia

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Heman Chong

Guest Artist

Angela Detanico

Guest Artist

Rafael Lain

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Harun Farocki

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Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq

Guest Artist

Devadeep Gupta

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Hylozoic/Desires

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Şener Özmen

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Erkan Özgen

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Fazal Rizvi

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Tabita Rezaire

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Hassan Sharif

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Prabhakar Pachpute

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Bani Abidi

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Hanna Tuulikki

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Madiha Aijaz

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Fatma Al Ali

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Suha Shoman

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Bady Dalloul

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Mahmoud Alhaj

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Ana Amorim

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Hiwa K

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Vishwa Shroff

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Dima Srouji

Guest Artist

Do Ho Suh

Guest Artist

T. Vinoja

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Tiger Tateishi

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Subas Tamang

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Bo Wang

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Tatyana Zambrano

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Driant Zeneli

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Lu Yang

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Saodat Ismailova

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Todd Reisz

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Ila Bêka

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Louise Lemoin

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Antoine Chapon

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Rhea Storr

Guest Artist

Jocelyn Saab

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Olivier Sednaoui

Guest Artist

Daniel Soares

Guest Artist

Hind Mezaina

Guest Artist

D. A. Pennebaker

Guest Artist

Suneil Sanzgiri

Guest Artist

Francisco Dias

Guest Artist

Zazie Ray-Trapido

Guest Artist

Moe Elhossieny

Guest Artist

Ahmed Ellabad

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Kasper Bosmans

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Annika Eriksson

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Walid Siti

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Rouzbeh Akhbari

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Stephanie Comilang

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Yto Barrada

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Mati Jhurry

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Harilay Rabenjamina

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Rayane Mcirdi

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Sara Sadik

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Mawena Yehouessi

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Josèfa Ntjam

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Franziska Pierwoss

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Zina Saro-Wiwa

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Michael Rakowitz

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Cecilia Vicuña

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Florence Lazar

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Moza Almatrooshi

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Satoshi Fujiwara

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Stéphanie Saadé

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Yuri Pattison

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Trevor Paglen

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NVIDIA Research

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Vocal Synthesis

Guest Artist

Sara Cwynar

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Jenna Sutela

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Victoria Sin

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Craig Green

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Agnieszka Kurant

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Amalia Ulman

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Amnesia Scanner

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Ana Nicolaescu

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Ania Soliman

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Anna Uddenberg

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Anne Imhof

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Barry Doupé

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Bogosi Sekhukhuni

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Cao Fei

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Carsten Höller

Guest Artist

Cécile B Evans

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Chen Zhou

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Christine Sun Kim

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

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Emmanuel Iduma

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Farah Al Qasimi

Guest Artist

Fatima Al Qadiri

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GCC

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Goshka Macuga

Guest Artist

Ian Cheng

Guest Artist

Isabel Lewis

Guest Artist

Jarvis Cocker

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Johannes Paul Raether

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John Menick

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Jürgen Klauke

Guest Artist

Koo Jeong A

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan

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Liam Gillick

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Liam Young

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Lorraine O'Grady

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Lucy Raven

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Lynn Hershman Leeson

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Michael Stipe

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Miles Gertler

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Miranda July

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Momus

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Pamela Rosenkranz

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Pan Daijing

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya

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Peter Saville

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Yoso Mouri

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Philippe Parreno

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Pierre Huyghe

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Precious Okoyomon

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Rachel Rose

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Raja'a Khalid

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Samuel Fosso

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Simon Denny

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Sissel Tolaas

Guest Artist

Sophia Al-Maria

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Suzanne Treister

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Thomas Dozol

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Thomas Hirschhorn

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Urs Lüthi

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Wang Haiyang

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Yaeji

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Yu Honglei

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Dana Amro

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Tamara Barrage

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Dania Darra

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Saba Besiso

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Bwader Elhassan

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Nuhayr

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FMD / Film My Designs

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Yara Habib

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Abdhul Hazeeb

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Adnan Ihsan

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Leen Kahaleh

Guest Artist

Rimsha Kidwai

Guest Artist

Mohamed Rowaizak

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Sense Studio

Guest Artist

Eman Shafiq

Guest Artist

Sanaz Yahyaabadi

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Adel Abdessemed

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Haig Aivazian

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Abbas Akhavan

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Diana Al-Hadid

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Doa Aly

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Walead Beshty

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Vikram Divecha

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Jason Dodge

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Zahrah Al-Ghamdi

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Bita Ghezelayagh

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Azade Köker

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Keita Miyazaki

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Slavs and Tatars

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Moffat Takadiwa

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Mario García Torres

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Louis Henderson

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François Knoetze

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Erin Espelie

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Geocinema

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Sarah Meyohas

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Tekla Aslanishvili

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Shezad Dawood

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Kamruzzaman Shadhin

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Noor Alwan

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Abdulla Buhijji

Guest Artist

Noush Anand

Guest Artist

Nadim Choufi

Guest Artist

Ruba Al-Sweel

Guest Artist

Nadine Khalil

Guest Artist

Nadine Khalil is a Lebanese, Dubai-based art critic, editor and independent curator, and one of the more established critical voices working in the Gulf. Her path into art came through the social sciences — her academic background is in anthropology — followed by nearly two decades in arts publishing. She was editor of the Dubai contemporary-art magazine Canvas (2017–2020) and earlier held senior editorial roles at the Beirut magazines A mag and Bespoke (2010–2016), and her criticism appears across the field's leading titles: Artforum, ArtReview Asia, The Art Newspaper, art-agenda, Ocula, The Brooklyn Rail, Artsy, FT and the Women's Review of Books. Beyond journalism she works as a curator and researcher, currently focused on the body as an expanded site of performance and labour, and collaborates with artists engaging performance, technology and the non-human world. She has authored a series of artist monographs (Paroles d'Artistes) on Lebanese artists including Samir Sayegh and Hanibal Srouji and the late filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, edited The Arts Center: Building a Performing Arts Community on Saadiyat Island (NYU Abu Dhabi, 2023), and contributed to volumes such as Evaporating Suns: Contemporary Myths from the Arabian Gulf (Hatje Cantz, 2023). She advises institutions including the Ishara Art Foundation, Goethe-Institut and the NYUAD Arts Center on editorial strategy, mentors artists in Tashkeel's Critical Practice Programme, and previously served as communications strategist for Ishara Art Foundation (2020–2022). At NIKA Project Space she curated the group exhibition I Can No Longer Produce the Limits of My Own Body.

Isaac Sullivan

Guest Artist

Nidhi Mahajan

Guest Artist

Deepak Unnikrishnan

Guest Artist

Sree

Guest Artist

Katie Paterson

Guest Artist

Nujoom Alghanem

Guest Artist

Ana Escobar Saavedra

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Dalia Khalife

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Joseph Kai

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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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Salah Elmur

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Prabhakar Baspote

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Clemens von Wedemeyer

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Damien Hauser

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Michael Almereyda

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Courtney Stephens

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Kevin B. Lee

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Lana Daher

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Youssef Chahine

Guest Artist

the Rice Brewing Sisters Club

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Faten Hamama

Guest Artist

Omar Sharif

Guest Artist

Amirah Tajdin

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Rebecca Crookshank

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Kevin Jones

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Nader Akoum

Guest Artist

Karine Baidoun

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Zahra Mansoor

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Adithya Suresh

Guest Artist

Yalda Bidshahari

Guest Artist

Ahmed Bilal

Guest Artist

Andres Ugartechea

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Dina Barqawi

Guest Artist

Mahasin Ismail

Guest Artist

Poorvaja Subramanian

Guest Artist

Rei Co

Guest Artist

Saiki Padhy

Guest Artist

Saina Bidshahri

Guest Artist

Vaishnavi Pramodh

Guest Artist

Kesang Chuki

Guest Artist

Majlis KaramAllah

Guest Artist

Abhirami Suresh

Guest Artist

Jared Jimenez Maxilom

Guest Artist

Afrah Shafiq

Guest Artist

Afrah Shafiq (b. 1989) is an Indian multimedia artist whose practice combines archival research, storytelling, digital games and interactive fiction. Her work revisits overlooked cultural histories — including Cold War-era exchanges between India and the Soviet Union — and has been developed through fellowships such as the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s field research programme in Moscow.

Mohammed Kazem

Guest Artist

Lulua Alyahya

Guest Artist

Lulua Alyahya is a Saudi artist whose paintings draw on references from many worlds to explore culturally embedded archetypes — notably masculinity, youth and beauty — with tenderness, humour and a critical edge. Moving between memory, imagination and physical and psychological landscapes, her work creates spaces that feel at once familiar and elusive. She has taken part in residencies internationally, and her Artist's Room at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai — bringing together new commissions, loans and works from the Art Jameel Collection — marked her first solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates.

Founders

Gallery founders and founding directors.

Fady Mohammed Jameel

Founder · since 2018

Fady Mohammed Jameel is the president of Art Jameel and the figure who carried the Jameel family's long philanthropic tradition into the contemporary art world. The family's culture of community support reaches back to the 1930s and the late Abdul Latif Jameel, founder of the family business, whose name the philanthropies still carry; Art Jameel itself was established in 2003 as part of Community Jameel. Under Fady Jameel's presidency, Art Jameel moved from funding and partnership programs — with institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art — to founding its own permanent spaces, beginning with Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai in 2018 and followed by Hayy Jameel in Jeddah. He has framed that shift as a commitment to supporting contemporary artists from the region and sharing their work with international audiences, positioning the family's philanthropy as a long-term investment in the cultural infrastructure of the Middle East rather than individual patronage.

Curators & programme

Curatorial team and exhibition programming.

Indranjan Banerjee

Curator

Lucas Morin

Curator

Hind Mezaina

Curator

Uns Kattan

Curator

Murtaza Vali

Curator

Rahul Gudipudi

Curator

Danielle Burrows

Curator

Shumon Basar

Curator

Douglas Coupland

Curator

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Curator

Nadine Khalil

Curator

Janine Randerson

Curator

Kittima Chareeprasit

Curator

Roger Nelson

Curator

Zain Al Saie

Curator

Qutouf Elobaid

Curator

Daniya Jawwad

Curator

Yalda Bidshahari

Curator

Sanjushrree Subash

Curator

Jared Maxilom

Curator

Abhirami Suresh

Curator

Advisors

Patrons, advisors, and independent contributors.

Christopher Lee

Advisor

Christopher Lee is one of the more intellectually distinctive architects of his generation — a designer and theorist who has built a global practice on a single idea: that new architecture should be reasoned out from the deep history of building "types" rather than invented as spectacle. His own story is improbable. Born into a poor family in a small town in Malaysia and ethnically Chinese, he left after his GCSEs on a Singaporean government scholarship — a route that bound him to Singapore for years and shaped a career later spent moving between continents. He went on to take the AA Diploma with Honours in London, win a RIBA President's Medal commendation, and earn a doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Berlage Institute and TU Delft. In 2008 he co-founded Serie Architects with Kapil Gupta, starting out, unusually, by winning international open competitions across India and the UK at the height of globalisation — Lee calls Serie a "third-generation" global practice, distinct from the signature-style studios that came before. The firm now works from London, Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing, with a portfolio focused on cultural, civic and educational buildings: the BMW London 2012 Olympic Pavilion, Singapore's State Courts, the National University of Singapore's School of Design and Environment, and the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai among them. Alongside practice he is a serious academic, currently Arthur Rotch Design Critic at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and formerly director of the AA's Projective Cities programme, and in 2017 he was named a Mayor's Design Advocate for London. Across all of it runs the same conviction — that the most resonant buildings are the ones that understand the city they enter.

Partners

Institutional partners, collaborators, and allied organisations.

Antonia Carver

Partner

Antonia Carver is one of the most influential figures in the Gulf art world, and the person who has shaped Art Jameel's public identity. A British arts leader who began her career in publishing and criticism — she edited and wrote on Middle Eastern art and film, and contributed to outlets including Bidoun — she became director of Art Dubai in 2010, building the fair into the central commercial event of the regional calendar over five editions. In 2016 she moved to lead Art Jameel as director, and oversaw the creation of its first permanent home, Jameel Arts Centre, working so closely with the architects that she advised on everything from materials to gallery layout, insisting on a flexible, kunsthalle-style space built around artists and audiences rather than spectacle. Under her direction Art Jameel has expanded across the region, opening Hayy Jameel in Jeddah and forging partnerships with institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is regularly cited among the most consequential cultural figures in the Middle East — a curator, editor and institution-builder whose career tracks the rise of the UAE art scene itself.