Amidst the quarantine 2020, Suzy enters artist Samia Halaby’s studio in New York City’s Tribeca, brimming with colorful spirals and bold geometric shapes. As published on Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia

Featuring an intro text by Suzy Sikorski on the origins of the UAE art scene that was included in the Imago Mundi Project she co-curated for the UAE and Bahrain in 2016.

Latif Al Ani, whose role as ‘Father of Iraqi Photography’ encompasses three decades of documentation, from the 1950s through 1970s. His work captures the belle époque of the cosmopolitan and modern Iraq during these years.

In one of the most groundbreaking international shows for an artist from the UAE, Abdulqader Al Rais achieved his first international retrospective at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris earlier this September, writes Suzy Sikorski

Seven graduating female architecture students at the American University of Sharjah are challenging the timeless elements of this work out of their love for Renaissance.

Nouf is an experimental photographer and visual communications designer who uses her background in English Literature and Linguistics to explore identity politics and gender issues from a feminist perspective.

Khalil reflects on his time as Hassan Sharif’s student and his perspective on the direction of the UAE art scene. He was part of a progressive and close-knit group that would incorporate Hassan’s practices within their own respective traditions. Image courtesy of Ammar Al Attar.

For the first time on the US West Coast, the San Francisco community welcomed GENERA#ION, an exhibition of contemporary art from Saudi Arabia this August. Spearheaded by the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture and in partnership with Culturunners and Gharem Studio, the exhibition was part of a multi-city tour trekking across interstate highway systems ranging from Houston, Texas to Aspen, Colorado.

As part of Art Dubai’s Artist-in-Residency program this year, Kaoud’s Brigade D’Urgence (2016) questions how repetitive body movements and unforeseen gestures simulate narratives of emergency disaster scenarios

Extending her creativity to the Washington DC streets, artist Ebtisam Abdulaziz shares her newest projects at DC Arts Studio’s Spring Open group exhibition this April.