Roudhah Al Mazrouie
Kawader Research Assistant
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA New York University; MFA Royal College of Art
Research Areas: Informal art education in the UAE; archival methodologies; women’s associations and cultural memory; Emirati landscape and heritage
Roudhah Al Mazrouei is an Abu Dhabi-based visual artist and researcher whose practice traces cultural memory, ecological heritage, and the archives of landscapes overlooked by documentation. She holds a BA in Art and Art History from New York University Abu Dhabi and an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. She is currently a Kawader Research Fellow at Al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYUAD.
Working primarily in oil painting alongside film, sculpture, sound, and printmaking, Al Mazrouei returns repeatedly to the mountains and villages of the northern Emirates, treating the land itself as a site of inherited knowledge. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Personal Structures at Palazzo Mora during the Venice Biennale; the Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Sharjah Islamic Festival. In 2022 she received the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award for a public installation now permanently sited at Rabdan Marina, and in 2024 she was named an Emirati Woman Achiever and a Rhodes Scholarship Finalist.
Alongside her studio and research practice, Al Mazrouei’s commitment to arts education spans 421’s People of Determination programming, the public programming of the UAE Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025, and NYU Abu Dhabi’s Arts Proxy Program. She is currently represented by Taymour Grahne Projects.