Visual Artist · Conceptual Installation Artist · Dubai, UAE
studio@khawlaabusaleh.com · khawlaabusaleh.com
Khawla Abu Saleh is a Dubai based visual artist and conceptual installation artist whose work begins with structure. Across oil on canvas and sensor driven installation, she builds systems in which relation, position, and duration determine what becomes legible, and in which identity appears as something assembled and provisional.
Reality Art and Tech Collaborative Program · Dubai Culture · 2024 to 2025Selected as one of six artists developing sensor based and kinetic installations
Studio Art Foundation · Damascus University · 2015 to 2016
Archaeology · Damascus University
ISEA 2026 · International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dubai · 2026Ashes of the Becoming and Observing the Observer, selected through the Reality Art and Tech collective
SIKKA Art and Design Fair · Dubai · 2025Dance of Horizons, interactive kinetic installation
Made in Tashkeel · group exhibition, Dubai · 2024
Etihad Airways 20th Anniversary Exhibition · Abu Dhabi · 2023
Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival · group exhibition · 2022
Masterclass · Art and Technology · Tashkeel, Dubai · scheduled September 2026
Jury Member · ADSW Global Digital Art Competition, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week · 2025 and 2026
Speaker and Co Host · TEDxJumeirahBeachPark Art Salon, Kanvas Dubai · 2025
Speaker · Dubai AI Week, hosted by Women in AI UAE · 2025
Panelist · Communicate.ai Conference · 2025
Presenter · SPAK Salon, Lolo House · Dance of Horizons · 2025
Google × Dubai Culture MENA Creatives Bootcamp · 2023 and 2025
Dubai Culture Google Bootcamp · AI Edition · 2025
Young Arab Leaders
ROSE Series · 2024 to ongoingNine oil paintings. Each work is built on a compositional system established before any figure is placed. Several temporalities occupy one image.
Dance of Horizons · 2025Interactive kinetic installation. A rotating sun and moon mechanism changes speed in response to viewer proximity. Exhibited at SIKKA Art and Design Fair 2025.
The Crossing · 2026Large scale outdoor passive installation. Two parallel aluminium layers hold a single image between them, resolved from one point along the viewer’s path. Submitted to Art Here 2026, Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Ashes of the Becoming · 2026, proposedInteractive kinetic installation. Fragmented elements rise from a field of sand, ash, and charcoal and align from one vantage point. Selected for ISEA 2026 through the Reality Art and Tech collective.
Observing the Observer · 2025 to 2026, proposedInteractive installation. A geometric mask before a segmented mirror. The mask’s gaze reverses onto the viewer. Selected for ISEA 2026 through the Reality Art and Tech collective.
Arabic, native · English, fluent