Nasser Alzayani is a Bahraini-American artist (b.1991, Manama, Bahrain) living and working in Abu Dhabi. Nasser’s practice expresses a research-driven documentation of time and place through text and image, as well as found and cast objects. Incorporating themes of factual and fictional archaeology, his most recent works explore alternative narratives of collective experience.
Nasser’s group exhibitions include And The Mirrors Are Many, 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2023);The Memory In Our Bones, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2022); Re-appearing Imaginaries, Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, KSA (2022); Post Fiction: Manama, Alriwaq Art Space, Bahrain (2022); Art Here 2021, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE (2021); So Different, So Appealing, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2021); Kissing Through A Curtain, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA (2020); The Youth Takeover, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, UAE (2020); Glass Triennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, USA (2019); _____scapes, Gelman Gallery, Providence, USA (2019); and Bayn, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2017).
Nasser is a recipient of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Richard Mille Art Prize (2021), the Fundación Casa Wabi x ArtReview Residency (2017), the Villa Lena Foundation Residency (2018), and the Cultural Foundation Residency in Abu Dhabi (2021).
He has an MFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design (2019) and a BArch from American University of Sharjah (2015).
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