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Zayn Qahtani
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- Education
2024 MA Sculpture, The Royal College of Art, London, UK
2022 The Drawing Intensive, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2019 BA Fashion Design, The Royal University for Women, Bahrain
- Selected Exhibitions
2024
Abu Dhabi Art, Hunna Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Graduate Exhibition, Bowman Sculpture, London, UK
MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Sixth Sense, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
NEW NOW: Part 2, Guts Gallery, London, UK
2023
Contested Bodies (curated by Marcelle Joseph), Leeds University Galleries, Leeds, UK
Hall of Mirrors, PLOP Residency, London, UK
Unannounced: The Other Voices of Silence, Lampo, Milan, Italy
Art Athina, Arusha Gallery, Athens, Greece
Dreamer's Eye, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
When The Heart of a Pig Has Hardened, Dice it Small, KIRKI, Tinos, Greece
Hawthorn & The Feast of Julian, Arusha Gallery, New York City, USA
MENART Fair, HUNNA, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Angels In Purgatory, VITRINE, London, UK (solo)
2022
I Felt That (curated by Josephine May Bailey), The Tub, London, UK
Serendipity, HUNNA x MIA Art Collection, Dubai, UAE
Chorus, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2021
She Curates x Clover Mill, Wilder Gallery, London, UK
From The Form of Spirit to the Spirit of Form, ATHR Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Public Collections
2023 Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 Soho House, London, UK
2022 Soho House, Oxfordshire, UK
2022 The Ned, Doha, Qatar
- Awards & Residencies
2024 Festus Residency, Royal College of Art x Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
2023 PLOP Residency, London, UK
2023 An Effort Art Residency, London, UK
2021 YSA 21 Selected Artist + Grant, ATHR Gallery, Saudi Arabia
- Press & Publications
FAD Magazine, April 2023, 'Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London Before & Over Easter', by Tabish Khan
Ache Magazine, March 2023, 'I Felt That', featured artist
Where’s The Frame?, February 2023, ‘Don’t Miss Zayn Qahtani’s Angels In Purgatory’ by Maribelle Bierens
The Other Art Girl, February 2023, ‘Angels in Purgatory’ by Adeola Gay
Gulf Weekly, February 2023, ‘Sojourn To The Self’ by Naman Arora
Art Maze Magazine, July 2022, Issue 27, featured artist
HUNNA, March 2022, ‘Zayn Qahtani’, critical essay by Madeleine Pollard
She Curates, December 2021, 'Open Call', interviewed artist, by Mollie E Barnes
Postscript Magazine, ‘Hiatus’ Issue 39, August 2021, featured artist
Vogue Arabia, GCC Issue, February 2021, ‘Set in Stone’, commissioned artwork
Zayn Qahtani (b.1997) is a Bahraini artist working in London. Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, Zayn's body of work is a diligent effort at archiving a personal, synesthetic archeological practise. Works feel discovered rather than created, alluding to a life beyond the maker.
This becomes apparent in Zayn's use of materiality: papers crafted from Bahraini date palm trees, bioplastics made from sugarcane, and pigments borne from plants, crystals, metals and earth all intermingle to form animistic objects of encrypted divination and illusory storytelling.
Zayn has graduated with an MA in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art (UK). She has completed The Drawing Intensive at The Royal Drawing School (UK), and holds a BA Fashion Design from The Royal University for Women (BH).
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