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Nadia Ayari

​​Nadia Ayari is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings and sculptures are included in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York on view until April 2022. Ayari’s upcoming solo exhibition opens at Nina Johnson Gallery (Miami) in November 2022. She has had solo projects at Luce, Turin (2009); Monya Rowe, New York (2011); The Third Line, Dubai (2013); and Taymour Grahne: New York (2016), Untitled, Miami Beach (2016); London (2019); Art Genève (2020); London (2021). She participated in the 12th International Cairo Biennale (2010) and the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale (2011); and her work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London; Maraya Art Center, Sharjah; Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris; American University Museum, Washington DC; and, Abrons Art Center, NY. Her works are included in the collections of the Barjeel Foundation, The Museum of Contemporary Art Al Madeen, The Fundación Medianoche0, the Scantland Collection and the X Museum. Straddling abstraction and figuration, Nadia Ayari’s work often negotiates the personal and the political. "With a set of protagonists borrowed from the flora of my native North Africa, the compositions often negotiate my personal and political views. In my new body of work, I have introduced a composite of two of my paintings’ former characters: the flower and the eye. Though I remain uncertain what this pink form means in its fresh incarnation, I sense that these oil-on-linen compositions are reaching for a new paradigm. Developed in tandem with my paintings, my sculptural practice allows me to further explore my work’s conceptual narratives. Fortunately, this exploration yields works that serve as sites of reflection to the paintings’ events- weighty anchors that communicate my aesthetic perspective."