Nour Jaouda is a Libyan artist based between London and Cairo.
Nour Jaouda fuses life and aesthetic practice through her continual movements between places real and remembered. Through earthy, saturated colors and the fiber medium, Jaouda explores tensions such as closeness and distance, presence and absence, and fragmentation and reconstruction. The simultaneous experiences of rooting, as a process, and being rootless imbue her work with conceptual, sensory dimensions. Whether evoking the uprooting or replanting of the self, Jaouda’s textiles embed the fluidity of identity and a constant state of becoming…
Threading her works are notions of rootlessness and resilience, destruction and regeneration, and timelessness. Jaouda relishes in the slow, physical and felt processes of fabricating hand-dyed textiles. Their inherent connectivity begets their association with the eternal and divine; to the artist, textiles have no beginning or end. The vegetal dyes possess their own force and unpredictability to activate the work. Jaouda’s sumptuously layered fabrics reverberate with colors at once deep and ethereal, shadowy and luminescent, as infinitely textured as memory itself.
Jessica Gerschultz
Education:
2019-2021 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
2015-2018 The Ruskin School of Art, BFA, Oxford University
Upcoming Exhibitions:
2026 Matters of time, Solo Exhibition, The Douglas Hyde, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Opens 03.07.26)
2026 Backyard Biennial: East, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Opens 15.07.26)
Exhibitions:
2026 Art Basel Qatar, A house between two houses, Special Projects, Doha, Qatar
2025 Matters of time, Solo Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2025 A Living Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
2025 Every Morning, A Time, Hatch Paris, 1 Place du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France
2025 An Uncommon Thread Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
2025 Islamic Arts Biennale 2025: And all that is in between, King Abdulaziz International Airport,
Hajj Terminal West, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2025 Poetry of the People, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025 Visions of the World, The Wigam Collection, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czechia
2024 Frieze London 2024, Union Pacific Gallery, Booth A05, London, UK
2024 On Feeling, Group show curated by Peter Davies, Approach Gallery, London, UK
2024 Être Méditerranée (Being Mediterranean) - MOCO Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, France
2024 Art Basel, Solo Booth Union Pacific Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2024 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere - Curated by Adriano Pedrosa
2023 Where, if not faraway, is my place? Solo exhibtion, Union Pacific Gallery, London, UK
2022 Yein Lee & Nour Jaouda, Beacon Gallery, Augustenstrasse 33a, Munich, Germany
2022 DRAPE, Fold Gallery, W1W 6YW, London, UK
2022 ARCO Madrid, VIII Premio Opening Section, East Contemporary Gallery. Avda. del Partenón, Madrid, Spain
2021 This is Not a Curated Exhibition, Galleria Ramo, Via Borsieri 4/d, Como, Italy
2021 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2021 Tomorrow 2021, White Cube Online
2021 Social Fabric, FOLD Gallery, W1W 6YW, London, UK
2021 What Remains, Encounter Contemporary, Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN, London, UK
2021 Final, not Over- again, Unit 1 Gallery, W10 6TP, London, UK
2021 DEEP CUT, Asylum Chapel, SE15 2SQ, London, UK
2020 PENDING, San Mei Gallery, SW9 7TB, London, UK
2020 5 HOURS, 42 S Molton St, Mayfair, London, UK
2020 Thought Threads, San Mei Gallery, SW9 7TB, London, UK
2019 Townhouse Gallery Artist Residency, Cairo, Egypt
2019 PLOP Artist Residency, Morley House, EC1A2AT, London, UK
2019 A Liminal Object, Numeroventi Artist Residency, Florence, Italy
2018 between the borderlines, The Emery Prize, Pembroke Art Gallery, Oxford, UK
Press:
Canvas Magazine - Transient States: Nour Jaouda at Spike Island - Elise Morton - 2/1/26
ArtReview - Nour Jaouda: Festivities and Funerals - Orit Gat - 1/12/25
Matters of time - Spike Island - Exhibition text by Amina Diab - 26/09/25
Frieze - The Mediterranean Issue - The Colourful Sacred Spaces of Nour Jaouda Mariana Fernández - 04/06/25
Lu Rose Cunningham in Conversation with Nour Jaouda - L’Essenziale Studio Vol.08 - 17/04/25
The Standard - Meet the most exciting young artists in London right now - Nancy Durrant - 16/10/24
Frieze London 2024 - Who Won What: Prizes, Awards and Acquisitions at Frieze 2024
The Arts Newspaper - Acquisition funds get first pick at Frieze London - Louisa Buck - 10/10/24
Arts Council Collection 2024 - Arts Council Collection Acquires Work by Nour Jaouda, Nicole Wermers and Shaqúelle Whyte
Art Basel - Artist Nour Jaouda’s landscapes of memory - Sofia Hallström - 8/4/24
The Best Booths at Art Basel - Artnews - Sarah Belmont - 12/6/24
La Biennale di Venezia 2024 - Jessica Gerschultz
https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/nucleo-contemporaneo/nour-jaouda
Frieze - What to See in Venice’s Giardini and Arsenale - 09/04/24
https://www.frieze.com/article/60th-venice-biennale-national-pavilions-preview-2024
Women at the Venice Biennale - Katy Hessel - 12/04/2024
The 60th Venice Biennale seen by Paulo Miyada - Paulo Miyada - 23/04/24
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/60th-venice-biennale-seen-paulo-miyada-amis-du-centre-pompidou-8zyae
Canvas Magazine - The Filaments of Life - Marcus Howard-Vyse - Summer 2024 Canvas Magazine - Issue 113
Artforum - Critics’ Picks - Lara el Gibaly - 31/05/2023
Where, if not faraway, is my place? - Louise Benson - 31/05/2023 https://unionpacific.cdn.prismic.io/unionpacific/1a1ea723-b472-42cf-883c-6e092fe71776_Nour_Jaouda_Where-if-not-faraway-is-my-place_Press-Release-1.pdf
Frieze - The Best Shows at London Gallery Weekend, Tom Jeffreys, 31/05/2023 https://www.frieze.com/article/best-shows-london-gallery-weekend-2023
‘Where, if not faraway, is my place? Artist Nour Jaouda celebrates solo show’ - Nahla Al-Ageli - 31/05/23
بتركيبات فريدة مبتكرة.. نور جعودة تمزج التاريخ بالحاضر, Al Masry Al Youm - Amani Mohamed - 14/09/23
In Benghazi, Dialogue between artists for Contemporary Day - ANSA - 07/10/2023
ARCO Madrid 2022 - East Contemporary, ganadora del VIII Premio Opening by Allianz
https://www.ifema.es/arco-madrid/noticias/galeria-ganadora-opening-by-allianz-2022
The Hopper Prize - Finalist - Interview. 14/05/22
ARTODAY - Interview. 24/04/22
Fabric as Language: Thought Threads at San Mei Gallery, Mazzy-Mae Green, 22/10/20
https://project.credit/journal/linguistic-material-thought-threads-at-san-mei-gallery
Thought Threads at San Mei Gallery, Leslie Manasseh -12/10/20
https://brixtonblog.com/2020/10/thought-threads-at-the-san-mei-gallery/?cn-reloaded=1&cn-reloaded=1
The Italian-Polish gallery East Contemporary conquers ArcoMadrid 2022
In Conversation: Nour Jaouda, Gal Leshem and Emily Moore, 14/10/20
https://www.sanmeigallery.co.uk/blog/in-conversation-nour-jaouda-gal-leshem-emily-moore
Artist Spotlight: Nour Jaouda, Gal Lesham, Emily Moore. Oct 27th 2020 https://www.sheperforms.com/sheperforms/san-mei-gallery
A Liminal Object, Nour Jaouda, by Mara Pizzinini Beck
27/03/2019 https://www.numeroventi.it/nour-jaouda/
Pembroke Students Launch the Emery Prize to Support Contemporary Artists, 28/06/18 https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/news/pembroke-students-launch-emery-prize-support-contemporary-artists?fbclid=IwAR22_NwvyjUtUbM8AIclu1YJxMRyfq0eLAV3vjnAlI5kNgcPUlgekHaAVZE
Emery Prize 2018 https://www.pembrokejcrart.org/emeryprize2018
Between the Borderlines | Emery Prize 2018 | Student Review https://www.pembrokejcrart.org/post/2019/09/05/between-the-borderlines-emery-prize-2018-student-review
Contact:
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