Roudhah Al Mazrouei (b. 2003, Al Ain, UAE) is an Abu Dhabi-based visual artist and researcher whose practice is deeply rooted in cultural memory, ecological symbiosis, and archival preservation. While she primarily works with oil, her multidisciplinary practice spans public art, film, sculpture, and printmaking. She has contributed to significant projects including receiving the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award in 2022, and creating interactive sculptural installations across the UAE for the Sikka Festival in 2024 and 2025 and Sharjah Islamic Festival in 2025. Her work reflects a dedication to crafting public art that is both conceptually rigorous and culturally resonant.
Beyond her artistic practice, Al Mazrouei is committed to education and research. She has been actively involved in developing educational initiatives, including her contributions to 421 and the UAE pavilion in Osaka 2025’s public programming and the Arts Proxy Program at NYU Abu Dhabi. She is currently a Kawader Research Fellow at Al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, where she conducts archival research on the development of formal and informal art institutions in the UAE from the 1960s onward.
Roudhah Al Mazrouei has an MFA from the Royal College 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).












