Manal AlDowayan

Manal AlDowayan is a visual director, costume and scenography designer. Embracing diverse media, her work encompasses black and white photography, sculpture, video, sound, neon and large-scale participatory installations. Her artistic practice revolves around themes of invisibility, active forgetting, archives and collective memory, with a large focus on the status of women and their representation. In the past 20 years of her career she has been awarded several commissions that produced engaging work that both questions the status of society and at the same time tells its stories.

AlDowayan holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art Practice in Public Spheres from the Royal College of Art, London and her works can be found in the collections of the British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou collection in Paris; Guggenheim Collection in New York and Abu Dhabi; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha. In 2024, AlDowayan represented Saudi Arabia at the 60th Venice Biennale.