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Biography
Conceptual artist Moza Almatrooshi’s practice is currently positioned within the study of erased mythology from the Arabian Peninsula, which she correlates with present modes of seeing. Within this lens, the exploration of those themes materialise in performances, moving image and audio media, and text-based work.
Her performance, titled Bellyfull, was presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2019) and one of her moving image works was displayed in the ICA, London (2020).
Almatrooshi has participated in group exhibitions, including Lahore Biennale 02 (2020); Slade School of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition (2019); NOM, AMP Gallery, London (2018); Is Old Gold? Revisiting the Past, Incubating the Future, Tashkeel, Dubai (2017); Art Dubai (2016); and The Blue Hour, XX Bienal Internacional De Artes Visuales De Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia (2016).
She curated the Dubai as Guest City Programme exhibition in Beijing Design Week (2015) and was an artist-in-residence at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2019) and A.i.R. Dubai (2015–2016).
Almatrooshi obtained a BFA in Arts and Creative Enterprises from Zayed University, Dubai (2013), an MFA from Slade School of Fine Art, London (2019) and a diploma in culinary arts from ICCA Dubai (2020). She is an alumna of the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF), cohort of 2014–2015, in partnership with Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA.
She is currently a faculty fellow in the Sheikha Salama Emerging Artists Fellowship in Abu Dhabi
Born in Dubai, she currently lives and works between Sharjah and London.