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Misk Art Institute / Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall
Al Namudhajiyah / King Saud Rd
About
The institute’s programme focuses on empowering emerging and regional creatives through an interconnected ecosystem of education, mentorship, and professional development. Its curatorial approach prioritizes contemporary dialogues that reflect the vibrancy of the Gulf region while providing structured platforms for artistic practice, experimentation, and public engagement.
Misk Art Institute is a non-profit cultural organization established in 2017 as a subsidiary of the Mohammed bin Salman “Misk” Foundation. Operating primarily from the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall in Riyadh, which reopened as a creative hub in 2019, the institute supports emerging and established artists across the Middle East and North Africa. It delivers an integrated ecosystem of educational programs, artist residencies, annual grants, and public exhibitions that foster contemporary artistic dialogue and community engagement.
Exhibitions
Current and upcoming shows at Misk Art Institute / Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall.
Visit
Hours, tickets, and directions for Misk Art Institute / Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall.
Address
9346 King Saud Road, Al Namudhajiyah, Riyadh
Collection
Highlights from the permanent and rotating collection.
People
Artists
Artists associated with the museum's collection and programme.
Manal AlDowayan
Dia Al-Azzawi
Dia al-Azzawi (b. 1939, Baghdad) is an Iraqi visual artist, painter and sculptor based in London. He studied archaeology at the College of Arts, Baghdad, graduating in 1962, and then trained at the Institute of Fine Arts under Hafidh al-Droubi, graduating in 1964. Active in Baghdad's art groups, he founded the New Vision group (Al-Ru'yah al-Jadidah) in 1968 and wrote its manifesto, Towards a New Vision. He served as director of the Iraqi Antiquities Department in Baghdad (1968–76) before settling in London in the late 1970s, where he became artistic director of the Iraqi Cultural Centre. Associated with the Hurufiyya movement, his work draws on Mesopotamian myth, Arabic poetry and calligraphy, and bears witness to war and displacement, as in The Land of Sad Oranges (1973), after Ghassan Kanafani. His works are held in collections including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Institut du Monde Arabe, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha and the Barjeel Art Foundation. (Source: Wikipedia)
Safeya Binzagr
Safeya Binzagr (1940–2024) was a pioneering Saudi artist from Jeddah, among the first Saudi women to hold public exhibitions in the 1960s and 70s. Trained in Cairo and at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, she devoted her career to documenting the traditional dress, architecture, customs and daily life of the Hejaz in paintings, drawings and etchings, and founded Darat Safeya Binzagr in Jeddah in 2000 as a museum and cultural centre.
Mona Saudi
Mona Saudi (1945–2022) was a Jordanian sculptor, born in Amman, who studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later lived in Beirut. Working mainly in stone, she created organic, abstract forms inspired by growth, the earth and poetry, and is regarded as one of the leading modern sculptors of the Arab world; her work is held by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou.
Marwan Rechmaoui
Marwan Rechmaoui (b. 1964, Beirut) is a Lebanese artist whose sculptures and installations examine urban space, cartography and the social and political geography of cities, above all Beirut. Known for works such as Beirut Caoutchouc, a walkable rubber map of the city, he uses industrial materials to explore how architecture, borders and maps shape collective memory. His work is held by Tate Modern among others.
Filwa Nazer
Filwa Nazer is a Saudi artist and designer based in Jeddah who works across textiles, sculpture, installation and photography. Trained in fashion design, she uses fabric, stitching and the body to explore themes of identity, belonging, care and the relationship between the self and the spaces it inhabits.
Gulammohammed Sheikh
Gulammohammed Sheikh (b. 1937, Surendranagar, Gujarat) is an Indian painter, poet and art historian, a central figure of the Baroda School. Trained at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and the Royal College of Art, London, he is known for richly layered paintings and portable shrine-like “Kaavad” works and mappa mundi that weave together Indian miniature traditions, Sufi and Bhakti poetry, and world art history. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Anju Dodiya
Anju Dodiya (b. 1964, Mumbai) is an Indian painter who studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art. Working in watercolour, charcoal and pastel on paper and fabric, she creates introspective, often self-referential figurative compositions that draw on Japanese ukiyo-e, Italian Renaissance painting and Indian miniatures to stage inner conflict, solitude and the drama of the self.
Hassan Meer
Hassan Meer (b. 1972, Muscat) is an Omani artist and a pioneer of contemporary art in Oman, working across photography, video, installation and painting. Founder of the Circle Art Group, he explores memory, spirituality, ritual and the body; his photograph Beyond the Hills (2008) depicts a hill facing the sea with birds circling as a metaphor for transition and freedom.