Afra Al Suwaidi

Afra Salman Al Suwaidi is an Emirati artist born in 1992. She specialized in fine arts and received her BA degree from Zayed University in 2016. Al Suwaidi has participated in number of exhibitions both locally and internationally. In 2015, she exhibited at Rochester Contemporary Art Center in New York and took part in Lessedra World Art Print Annual Exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2017, her work was featured in Imago Mundi in Treviso, Italy. She also participated in Abu Dhabi Art international exhibition, Beyond: Emerging Artists, held in 2021 at Cromwell Place, London. Locally, Afra showcased her work in Guggenheim Abu Dhabi: Do Art Do It Now at Manarat Al Saadiyat in 2017, and the 35th Annual Exhibition of the Emirates Fine Arts Society in Sharjah in 2018. In 2020, she took part in the Cultural Foundation Art Residency, as well as the Outside In, Inside Out exhibition at Bait15 in Abu Dhabi. That same year, she participated in Beyond: Emerging Artists at Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, and in Work-in-Progress show by Bleep at Aisha Alabbar Art Gallery in Dubai. In 2021, she was featured in Slumber at the Art Space by the Cultural Foundation, the 37th Annual Exhibition of the Emirates Fine Arts Society in Sharjah, and Made in the Emirates: Connected Collected at Sotheby’s in Dubai. In 2022, Afra participated in Versus: Collective Consciousness in Dubai and Eyes Wide Shut at Firetti Contemporary Gallery. She also presented her work in The Art of Living on Al Jubail Island in Abu Dhabi, and was selected for the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF). In 2023, she exhibited in State exhibition at MIZA, Abu Dhabi, and participated in Bridging Cultures, held in association with Bangladesh Art Week at the American University in Dubai. Her work was also shown in Salam exhibition at Art Booth Gallery in Abu Dhabi. In collaboration with Firetti Contemporary and Gaggenau, she exhibited at Firetti Contemporary Gallery in Dubai, and took part in Abu Dhabi Art with Art Booth Gallery at Manarat Al Saadiyat. In 2024, Al Suwaidi was involved in the Art + Tech programme. In 2025, she exhibited in Intersections at Ocontemporary in Abu Dhabi and participated in the group show Chromatic Dialogues at Art Booth Gallery.