Manal Al Dowayan

Manal Al Dowayan is a Saudi Arabian contemporary artist, best known for her participation at the 60th Venice Biennale "Shifting Sands: A Battle Song" (2024) a participatory artwork and multimedia installation that gather the voice of 1000 saudi women, the permanently installed artwork "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" in the desert of AlUla (2020), her collaboration with the British Choreographer Akram Khan as visual Director of Thikra:Night of Remembering, her performance at the Guggenheim of New York Rotunda "From Shattered Ruins New Life Should Bloom" (2023), and Suspended Together from the Home Ground Exhibition at the Barjeel Art Foundation in 2011. She has shown work in a number of shows including the 2012 Soft Power show at Alan Art Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the 2013 Journey of Belonging, a solo show at Athr Gallery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the 2017 100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art in Paris, France, as well as having her work exhibited in the 2014 USA Biennial in Houston, the 2015 P.3: Prospect New Orleans USA Biennial Notes For Now, and the Venice Biennale in the Future of a Promise Exhibition. Her work, mostly participatory, spans many mediums from photography to installation and focuses on a progressive examination and critique women's roles in Saudi society.