About Ahaad Al Amoudi

Ahaad Al Amoudi (b.1991, Jeddah, KSA) was raised between England and Saudi Arabia, lives and works in Jeddah. Travelling between the two kingdoms, Ahaad's work addresses history and representation. She graduated from Dar Al Hekma University in Jeddah with   a BA in Visual Communication in 2014 and graduated with an MA in Print from the   Royal College of Art in2017.

In her research about Saudi’s reforming ethnography, Ahaad’s photography, video and print installations aim at altering the historical rendition of Saudi Arabia.

In 2016 and 2017, Ahaad’s work was shown as part of the Parallel Kingdom exhibition at the Station Museum in Houston, the Generation exhibition at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco and in the Phantom Punch exhibition at Bates College of Art in Lewiston, Maine. She has been featured in a film on the Guardianabout the power of artists confronting Islamophobia in Saudi Arabia.

In 2018, Ahaad was the recipient of the Crossway Foundation x Middle East Now Festival Residency in Florence.