Manal Al-Dowayan (Saudi Arabia)

Manal Al-Dowayan was born and raised in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and works out of her hometown Dhahran. Over the course of her education, she partook in a range of courses in differing art institutions in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain and London. In 2009 she was a resident artist at the Delfina Foundation in London and attended the Clore Leadership program.

Al Dowayan has participated in numerous exhibitions including the British Council’s Common Ground project in 2006 and Nawafith: the Saudi-Italian artist exchange (2007/09). Manal has also exhibited regionally and internationally, in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Bahrain, the UK, USA, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. She won an international call for artists for the Imagining Ourselves anthology in 2003, which was managed by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. In 2005 she was selected to participate in a photography project which was followed by an auctioning of the works by Christie’s. Her photograph Pointing to the Future was exhibited in New York at the 49th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2005. Al Dowayan also exhibited her work during the 2009 Venice Biennale show “Edge of Arabia” and had a solo exhibit in Bastakia during the Dubai Art Fair. Manal has been featured in numerous art publications, magazines and books.

Her artworks art part of the permanent collections of the British Museum, The Jordanian National Museum of Fine Art, The Abdullatif Jamil Foundation, and The Delfina Foundation. Manal is represented by Cuadro Fine Art Gallery in Dubai.

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