Manal Al-Dowayan was born and raised in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Over the course of her education, she partook in a range of courses in differing art institutions in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain and London. Manal is represented by the Cuadro Fine Art Gallery.

Al Dowayan has participated in numerous exhibitions including the British Council’s Common Ground project in 2006 and Nawafith: the Saudi-Italian artist exchange (2007). Manal has also exhibited regionally and internationally, in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Bahrain, the UK, USA, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. She won an international call for artists for the Imagining Ourselves anthology in 2003, which was managed by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. In 2005 she was selected to participate in a photography project which followed with an auctioning of the works by Christie’s. Her photograph Pointing to the Future was exhibited in New York at the 49th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2005. Al Dowayan also exhibited her work in the 2009 Venice Biennale show “Edge of Arabia”

Landscapes of the Mind - Solo Exhibit

The exhibit explores landscape. Using representations of my native Saudi Arabia as a medium of thought exchange between the mind and nature, the self and the other. Opens October 22 to December 6, 2009.
In Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, Dubai UAE.

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http://cuadroart.com/