UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Christie's, London, United Kingdom
Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, France
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
British Museum, London, UK
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Vinyl Factory, London, UK
Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2025
Christie's, 2024
Lars Müller Publishers, 2016
Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2010
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Art Education in Saudi Arabia
Read full essayTracing the forces that shaped modern and contemporary practice in the kingdom
Read full essayReflects on the evolving contemporary art nexus of Saudi Arabia
Read full essayThe story started at the end of February 1991 when a black cloud spread out between the stars and their image.
Read full essayFounded in 2025, the Ahmed Mater Foundation is a community platform, providing support to emerging local artists while bringing regional and international leaders in arts and culture to Abha, the capital of Asir.
Founded 1989 in Abha by the then Governor of Asir, HRH Prince Khaled bin Faisal Al-Saud as a cultural centre incorporating artists' studios, exhibition space, shops, a public theatre and a mosque.
Founded 2001 in Abha by Ahmed Mater, Ashraf Fayadh, Abdulnasser Gharem, Abdulkarim Qassem and Muhammad Khidr. This artist collective challenged existing modes of art practice in Saudi Arabia.
Founded March 2003 in Abha by Stephen Stapleton, Ahmed Mater and Abdulnasser Gharem as an artist-led platform for cultural exchange, diplomacy and production between the Arab and Western World.
Founded 2014 in Jeddah by Ahmed Mater as a community arts organisation aiming to awaken Saudi civil society to contemporary ways of thinking, innovation and sustainable cultural developmen