Shaikha Al Mazrou b. 1988
Shaikha Al Mazrou is considered to be among the most dynamic and promising artists of her generation from the UAE. Her sculptural experimentations and investigations are expressions of materiality—articulations of tension and the interplay between form and content as well as an intuitive, keenly felt understanding of materials and their physical properties. She combines and evolves ideas from contemporary artistic movements similarly preoccupied with formal and material elements, from colour theory to geometric abstraction.
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Lines Within A Circle I, 2017
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Scales, 2017
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Lines Within A Circle III, 2017
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Engage, 2018
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Exhale , 2018
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Green house: Interior yet Exterior, Manmade yet Natural, 2018
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Cast Documents, 2018
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Untitled, 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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Rafter, 2019
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Intersecting Lines, 2019
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We Met Halfway, 2020
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Close To The Coast But Not Too Close, 2020
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Sky And Ocean And Everything In Between, 2020
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For The Things That Will Remain Unsaid, 2020
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To Create Meaning In Perception, 2020
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Despite The Weather (complete set of ten pieces), 2020
Shaikha Al Mazrou was born in the UAE in 1988 and received her MFA in 2014 from the Chelsea College of Fine Art, University of the Arts London. Prior to that she studied at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah where she is currently a Sculpture Lecturer.
Recent solo exhibitions include Rearranging the Riddle, Maraya Art Centre Sharjah, Sharjah (2020), Expansion/Extension, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2019), Solo Projects, Abu Dhabi Art with Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2018).
She has participated in a number of group exhibitions including: Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal (2020), Upsurge: Waves, Colour And Illusion, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2020), MATERIALIZE, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2019), Artissima, Dialogue section, with Lawrie Shabibi, Torino (2018), From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi: Works from the MACBA Art Collection in Dialogue with the Emirates, organised by ADMAF, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (2018); Beyond: Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art (2017); Art of Nature, Abu Dhabi Festival, Umm Al Emarat Park, Abu Dhabi (2017); Homage Without An Homage, curated by Cristiana De Marchi, Art Dubai, Julius Baer Lounge, Dubai (2017); Faculty Show, Al Rewaq Gallery, College of Fine Art, University of Sharjah, Sharjah (2017); Abu Dhabi Art, with Lawrie Shabibi, Abu Dhabi (2016); Past Forward: Contemporary Art from the Emirates, Bolivar Art Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA (2016).
Shaikha Al Mazrou is a finalist of Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize (2020). In 2018 Al Mazrou was awarded the first Artist's Garden commission by the Jameel Arts Centre for her public piece Green house: Interior yet Exterior, Manmade yet Natural (2018). She has also been commissioned by Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF), Abu Dhabi Art & Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority and The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).
Al Mazrou currently lives and works in Dubai.
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Blue
21 Nov 2020 - 12 Jan 2021 GalleryBlue explores the dialectic between meaning and visual sensation. Saturated with meanings - freedom, intuition, imagination, expansiveness, inspiration, sadness, faith, spirituality, wisdom, peace, serenity, ethereality, infinity to name just a...Read more -
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
Shaikha Al Mazrou at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal 12 Sep - 12 Nov 2020 MuseumsThe Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize was created in 2015, by Porto City Council, as a tribute to the former Councilor for Culture, Paulo Cunha e Silva, and is...Read more -
Upsurge: Waves, Colour and Illusion
18 Mar - 1 Sep 2020 GalleryBringing together the diverse range of practices of a multi-generational group of artists - Mohamed Melehi (b.1936, Morocco), Mona Saudi (b.1945, Jordan), Hamra Abbas (b.1976, Kuwait), Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (b....Read more -
Rearranging the Riddle
Shaikha Al Mazrou at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah 7 Mar - 25 Jul 2020 MuseumsShaikha Al Mazrou’s sculptural experimentations and investigations are expressions of materiality—articulations of tension and the interplay between form and content as well as an intuitive, keenly felt understanding of materials...Read more -
Materialize
Maliheh Afnan, Farhad Ahrarnia, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Asad Faulwell, Fathi Hassan, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Mona Saudi, Driss Ouadahi, Shahpour Pouyan 18 Mar - 7 Apr 2019 GalleryOpening 18 March in Warehouse 13 -a large space just across from its gallery within Alserkal Avenue- Lawrie Shabibi presents a major group exhibition to coincide with the 12th edition...Read more -
Expansion / Extension
Shaikha Al Mazrou 17 Sep - 1 Nov 2018 GalleryFor her debut solo exhibition Shaikha Al Mazrou presents Expansion/Extension. The title draws from the artist’s own experience conceiving the show – expanding and extending her research into the meaning...Read more
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Shaikha Al Mazrou in Canvas
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Shaikha Al Mazrou on Tea with Culture
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Shaikha Al Mazrou in Architectural Digest, Middle East
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Shaikha Al Mazrou in The National
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Shaikha Al Mazrou in the Financial Times
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Shaikha Al Mazrou in the Khaleej Times
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Computer Love - an interview with Shaikha Al Mazrou
Asmaa Al-Shabibi, Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia, November 1, 2014