Hailing from Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, Roudhah Al Mazrouei's paintings mark the emergence of a powerful voice in Emirati art. Her visual narratives stand out with characteristically animated brushwork, executed with a passion and energy that infuse her canvases with an Expressionist flair

Al Mazrouei's practice is rooted in cultural memory: her work serves as a love letter to the mountainous valley village of Siji, where she uncovers forgotten histories and rethreads the lineage of her own family and fellow tribespeople. By drawing these stories into the fabric of contemporary art, she brings to light what is often overlooked and redefines the notion of "living archives" - not as static repositories, but as Derrida envisioned, sites of memory in constant flux, reshaped by the present as much as they preserve the past.

Roudhah Al Mazrouei (B.2003) is an artist from Al Ain, UAE living and working in Abu Dhabi. She has an MFA from the Royal Collage of Art, London and a BA from NYU Abu Dhabi. She has participated in group exhibitions in venues such as Good Eye Projects(London); Hockney Gallery (London); Al Safa Art and Design Library (Dubai); Emirates Fine Arts Society (Sharjah); Manarat Al Saadiyat (Abu Dhabi); NYUAD Project Space (Abu Dhabi), Palazzo Mora (Venice, part of the Venice Biennial) and elsewhere. Last year, she was a Rhodes Scholarship Finalist (Oxford) and won the Emirati Woman Achiever Award (startAD at NYU, Abu Dhabi) and the Founders Day Award (NYU, Abu Dhabi).