Roudhah Al Mazrouei 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 the 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, Roudhah 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 holds a BA in Art & Art History from New York University Abu Dhabi and an MFA from the Royal College of Art.