Working with discarded belongings, documents on noticeboards, dreams of supermarkets, and mistakes. He turns these leftover materials into metaphors to explore feelings of longing, belonging and alienation. His practice takes various forms: portraiture of missing cats, forged handwritings, piles of flowers, chasing of sunsets and recently mudlarking.
He is an alumnus of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship and Campus Art Dubai 7.0, with previous group shows in Goa, Jeddah and Yorkshire.
Khalid is pursuing his MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he currently lives and works.
🎓 Education
2026 MFA, Goldsmiths, University of London
🕺 Solo Shows
2024 Looking, dwelling, leaving, The Third Line, Dubai
2022 Let me tell you something, 421 (Previously Warehouse421), Abu Dhabi
2022 Beyond: Emerging Artist 2022, Abu Dhabi Art
👯 Group Shows
2025 Rays, Ripples, Residue, SUN™, 421, Abu Dhabi
2024 Three Tired Tigers, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai
2023 HOLY FLUX!, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
2023 Beyond: Emerging Artist 2022, Cromwell Place, London
2023 Coded Gestures, Nika Project Space, Dubai
2021 Made In The Emirates, Sotheby’s, Dubai
2021 Spacetoons, Athr Gallery, Jeddah
2021 After The Beep, Satellite, Dubai
2021 Total Landscaping, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
2020 The Youth Takeover: Jameel Arts Center, Dubai
2020 ‘Do You See Me How I See You?, Maisan15, Dubai
2019 Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Contemporary Art in the City, Art Dubai
2018 SEAF COHORT 5 Community & Critique, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
2018 Losers club, Grey noise, Dubai
2018 On Being Vertical Against your Horizon, Samt
2017 Beyond Boundaries: Art By Email, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire
📚 Programmes
2021 Artistic Developmental Exhibition, Warehouse421
2019 Campus Art Dubai 7.0
2018 The Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship
💰 Grants
2020 Art Jameel Research and Practice Platform Grant
🗣 Talks, Presentations
2023 Arts Chat, Building a Life as an Artist, NYUAD Art Gallery
2022 The Artist is an Author is an Artist, Alserkal Arts Foundation
2021 Artist presentation, Zayed University
2021 Artist presentation: Total landscaping, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi
2017 Slidefest, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
📰 Press
2026 Thinking Through Childhood And Experiences - Sandy Times
2023 A story of displacement - The News on Sunday
2023 RE-ENCHANTING THE QUOTIDIAN - Canvas Issue 106
2022 Mohamed Khalid was Destined to be an Artist - YUNG
2022 Critic’s pick, Abu Dhabi - Artforum
2021 “Total Landscaping” at Warehouse 421 - Global Art Daily
2020 11 artists in the UAE to watch in the coming year - The National
2020 UAE’S GEN Z IS TAKING OVER JAMEEL ARTS CENTRE - Grazia ME
2017 Ping! You’ve got art mail - The Times(2)
2017 Beyond boundaries - Gulf News
🏛️ Public Collections
Jameel Art Center
☎️ Email