Film Festivals
2023
Alternative Film/Video , Academic Film Center, Students City Cultural Center, Belgrade
London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
Solo Exhibition
2021 Wonder Land, Tashkeel, Dubai
Group Exhibitions
2023
Resonating Tides: Stories from the Edge of Tomorrow’s Anthropocene, Women’s Pavilion, Expo City Dubai
Guest Relations, Jameel Arts Centre , Dubai
Zines Exhibition, Tasweer Photo Festival, M7, Doha
2022
Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
2021
Beyond: Emerging Artists, Cromwell Place, London
Total Landscaping, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
2020
Beyond: Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
2019
How to Maneuver: Shape-shifting Texts and Other Publishing Tactics, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
2018
Letters by ATHR, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
March Project 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
2017
Collectivity: Objects and Associations in the U.A.E. Art World, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, Sharjah
Is Old Gold?, DUCTAC, Dubai
2016
Al Haraka Baraka: In Movement There Is Blessing, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
2015
AiR Dubai 2015 – Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
2014
Al Sourat Photo Festival: 40 Years of French and Emirati Photography, Abu Dhabi/Dubai
2015
Deira Polaroids, SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai UAE
Turning Point – Tashkeel, Dubai
Encounter: Listen to the City, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
2012
Women on the Verge, The Empty Quarter, Dubai
The Present, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
2011
Photo ID, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
The Heart of the Phoenix, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea
Archive 80, Dar Ibn Al Haytham, Dubai
Sikka Art Fair, Bastakiya, Dubai
MinD - City's Dialogue, DUCTAC, Dubai
Biladi, Tashkeel, Dubai
2010
The Power of Dreams, UAE Pavilion at Expo 2010: Shanghai
Résurrection des Mannequins, Portfolio Gallery, Dubai
FAKiE, Fn Design at Shelter, Dubai
Made in Dubai, DUCTAC, Dubai
Sense of Sight, DUCTAC, Dubai
2009
Art Below Tokyo, Tokyo
Kalimat, DUCTAC, Dubai
The Portfolio Project by Bidoun, Shelter, Dubai
Silent Conversations, Tashkeel, Dubai
Emirati Expressions, Gallery One (Emirates Palace Hotel), Abu Dhabi
Dubai Underground, Like the Spice Gallery, New York (https://rhizome.org/community/14513/)
My Name is Robot, thejamjar, Dubai
For the Love of Polaroid, SAANS Downtown, Salt Lake City
Pillar of Art, Art Below, Berlin
2008
Documentation, Tashkeel, Dubai
Suhour-Emirati Exhibition, Art Connection, Dubai
October Exhibition, Art Below, London
Art Below Tokyo, Tokyo
July Exhibition, Art Below, London
Fusion, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
The Incredible Holga and Wonder Diana, thejamjar, Dubai
New Face New Visions, DUCTAC, Dubai
Art of March, Art Below, London
2007
Mezze at Halcyon, Halcyon, New York
Cromofilia, Gallery Centro, Los Lagos, Mexico
Fall Flavors, Rebar, New York
Lomography World Wall, Trafalgar Square, London
Cromofila, Gallery Centro Cultural Los Lagos, Mexico
Hot in the City, The Jam Jar, Dubai
3's a Crowd, Five Green, Dubai
2006
Double Expose, Trilogy Rooftop and Five Green, Dubai
2005
This used to be my house! Dubai then and now, Village Mall, Dubai
2004
Drive by shooting, Five Green, Dubai
Collections
Sharjah Art Foundation
UAE Unlimited
Artist Residencies/Fellowships/Seminars
2022 Programming Film Heritage, 7th FIAF Winter School, Paris
2021 Seminar: In Defence of Digressions, Ashkal Alwan (online)
2020-2021 Critical Practice Program, Tashkeel, Dubai
2020 IFFR Sessions, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2018 March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation
2016 Delfina Foundation (Autumn Programme), London
2015-2016 Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Emerging Artists Fellowship, Abu Dhabi
2015 Picture Berlin (Fall Session), Berlin
2014-2015 A.i.R Dubai 2015
2014-2015 Campus Art Dubai 3.0
2010 Bidoun Workshops: Writing About Art, Shelter, Dubai
Commissioned Projects
2017 Music TV, Presented at the Louvre Abu Dhabi opening weekend
2017 Home: Food, Music, Sports, National Pavilion UAE
2016 The Wedding Project, Art Dubai, Dubai (Commissioned by Delfina Foundation)
2014 Global Art Forum 8 (Art Dubai) – In the Meanwhile (video), Dubai, UAE
2013 The Culturist at House 9, SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
2013 Cassette Project for Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp 2013, Dubai, UAE
2012 Global Art Forum 6 (Art Dubai) - Mass Medium: Emirati TV on Home Video, Dubai, UAE
2011 The Dubai Benches Project, commissioned by S*uce
2011 Around Dubai, Postcard Book, DXB Store, Art Dubai
Film Programs
Ongoing The Culturist Film Club
2024
Night School 2024 Film Night: Traversing Landscapes, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
2023
CineMAS 2023, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Etihad Museum, Dubai
Night School 2023 Film Night - Make History: Filed and Concealed, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
2022
Bayn Al Khaleej, NYUAD Arts Centre, Abu Dhabi
What Existed Yesterday Might Disappear Tomorrow, Unpacking the ArteArchive, online and Alliance Francaise, Dubai
CineMAS 2022, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Yesterday Was Like This in Dubai, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
Night School 2022 Film Night, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
2021
Al Burda Festival, Dubai, UAE
CineMAS 2021, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Places/Faces, Alliance Francaise, Dubai, UAE
The Theatre, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai, UAE
2020
The Theatre, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai, UAE
Visual Literacy, Online Workshop for Juniper Mind
Furusiya: The Art of East and West, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Youssef Chahine Trilogy, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE
2019
10,000 Years of Luxury, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900 - 1939), Louvre Abu Dhabi
Cinem'Art Film Screenings, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE
Photographs: An Early Album of the World, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Mini Youssef Chahine Retrospective, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation
2018
Japanese Connections Film Screenings, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cinem'Art Film Screenings, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE
Permanent Temporariness Film Screenings, NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2017
Film Program for National Pavilion UAE exploring the curatorial concepts of the exhibition Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play at the Venice Biennale, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah
2016
Cruel Summer, thejamjar, Dubai
Membership
2020-present Jury Member, The Critics Awards, Arab Cinema Center
2022 Jury Member, Sharjah Film Platform
2017 Selection committee member for the UAE Submission to the Foreign Language Film Award category at the Academy Awards
Selected Writings
2022 The Sky Oscillates between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences - Interview with Nadim Choufi (Tribe)
2022 Memory Box: Interview with Joan Hadjithomas (Tribe)
2022 Yesterday Was Like This in Dubai (Film Program notes for Jameel Arts Centre)
2021 Incomplete History of UAE Cinemas, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Alserkal.online)
2021 Good Vibrations: Living It Up In Sharjah Hotels (Building Sharjah)
Presentations/Talks
2023 Analogue Photography, Lecture for Visual Communications Photo 1 Students, American University in Dubai
2023 Night School 2023, Jameel Arts Centre
2022 Panel Discussion: Diversity in Cinema, Institut Français in Abu Dhabi.
2022 Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon post screening Q&A with Ana Lay Amirpour (online), Cinema Akil, Dubai
2022 Show and Tell: Fawazeer Ramadan - Nelly and Sherihan, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
2022 Challenging the Red Tape, Eye International Conference 2022, Amsterdam
2022 Night School 2022, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (led two sessions showing and discussing films about Dubai)
2021 Panel Talk about my essay Incomplete History of UAE Cinema, Cinema Akil, Dubai
2021 Between Movement and Pause: The Visual Archaeology of a Pandemic, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah Art Foundation
2021 Split-Second Histories, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, UAE
2020 Art and Artists in the Time of Disruption, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
2017 Ethnomusicologist Dr. Aisha Bilkhair, Research Advisor at the UAE National Archives, in conversation with artist Hind Mezaina, Project Space Art Jameel, Dubai
2017 Imitation, Plagiarism And Tribute: Recurrences In Visual Arts, DUCTAC, Dubai
2015 Future of Emirati Filmmaking, Apple Store, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai
2014 Slidefest, Gulf Photo Plus, Knowledge Village, Dubai
2011 Culture in the City, thejamjar, Dubai
2010 Slidefest, Gulf Photo Plus, Knowledge Village, Dubai
2008 Pecha Kucha, The Third Line, Dubai