Ahaad Alamoudi

Ahaad Alamoudi is an early career artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses print, photography, performance, sculpture, and video art. Alamoudi’s research-based and idiosyncratic work centers upon witty interpretations of society, often presenting itself in the forms of commentary and parody that, although lighthearted, have serious underpinnings. Her formally diverse works apprehend ethnography and its conventions as a field that is ripe for alteration and reformation through creative critique. Alamoudi approaches her work from the perspective of a digital native artist who recomposes fragments drawn from the torrential wash of digital content into novel compositions that interrelate pop culture with tradition. As an interpreter of Saudi culture, its cultural movements and possible futures, and its fictions and realities, Alamoudi takes advantage of her embedded position as well as her experience being raised between England and Saudi Arabia to address history and representation. In her research about Saudi Arabia’s reforming ethnography, her practice aims to render the diverse contemporary Saudi identities in a manner that is authentically rich, complex, and self-reflective.  

Recent selected exhibitions include “Heat Burns,” ATHR Gallery, Jeddah (2022) (solo); Art Basel, Basel (2022); Residence Gallery, London (2021); and BIENALSUR, Kirchner Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (2021).  

Alamoudi is PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, London. She earned an MA in print from the Royal College of Art, London (2017) and a BA in visual communication from Dar Al-Hekma University (2014). 

Alamoudi’s recent international residencies include Residency Unlimited, New York (2019), Up and Coming, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2019), and Middle East Now Residency, Florence (2018).