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Bio

Represented by Nicodim Los Angeles

1992 Born Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

2015 BFA Painting & Drawing
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


Exhibitions

2025 (all upcoming) Ames Yavuz, Singapore

Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, Maine

Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY

Rajiv Menon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024 The Here and There Benefit Show, New York, NY

Alien, Miami Art Week, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

Liang Fu / Chantal Khoury / Daniel Pitin / Nadia Waheed, Nicodim, Los
Angeles, CA

The Armory Show with Nicodim, New York, NY

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Nicodim, Bucharest, Romainia

(solo) Art Dubai with Gallery 1957, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Vampire::Mother, Vortic @ Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Frieze London, Gallery 1957 @
Mandrake Hotel, London, UK

Frieze Seoul with Gallery 1957, Seoul, Korea

(solo) A Strange Icarus, Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA

Inner Matter, Galerie LJ, Paris, France

Maternity Leave, The Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

Expo Chicago with Gallery 1957, Chicago, IL

Disembodied, Nicodim, New York, NY

Felix Art Fair with Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA

2022 MADELEINE BIALKE, M. FLORINE DÉMOSTHÈNE, SAHARA LONGE,
NADIA WAHEED, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY

Goddesses, Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

Pop up @ Frieze Seoul, Harper’s Gallery, Seoul, Korea

YOU ME ME YOU, Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA

(solo) Heavy Bend, Gallery 1957, London, UK

Wonder Women II, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA        

The Storytellers, Gallery 1957, London, UK

Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY

I is Other, Lyles & King, New York, NY

2021 Notes From The Motherland, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY

The Scenic Route, Gallery 1969, New York, NY

Sweet Jane in Fields of Daisies, Phillips, New York, NY     

(solo) Am I Human Yet, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY

She Came To Stay, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy

Self-Identity In The Face Of The Global Pandemic, Gallery 1957, London, UK

2020 This Sacred Vessel Online, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY

(solo) I Climb, I Backtrack, I Float, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

NADA Fair Online, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY

Sacred Vessel (pt.2), Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY

Crossroads, Patel Gallery, Toronto, CA

Moleskine Show @ POW!WOW!, Spoke Art, Honolulu, HI

Lady Parts, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

Lately, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

2019 While Supplies Last, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, WA

Night & Day, Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY

(solo) For the Few and the Many, BEERS London, London, UK

I ♡ Paint, Patel Gallery, Toronto, CA

(solo) “See Me Where I Am”, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX

(solo) Notes From A Windowless Room, Raw Paw Gallery, Austin, TX

2018 Selfie Gauntlet, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX

(solo) Eight Chicks in a Pod, Bolm Studios, Austin, TX

2017 Hear Me Out, ARC Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Closing Party, The Space, Sydney, Australia

2015 Cubicle the Musical, S. Dearborn Gallery Space, Chicago, IL

Advanced Pain, Crybaby Gallery, Chicago, IL

Spring Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL

Honors

2024 Guest Lecturer, Stanford University, ArtX

2023 Artist Talk, Mandrake Hotel during Frieze London, London, UK

Guest Juror, Versiona Thyssen 18 , Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza,
Madrid, Spain

2021 Guest Lecturer, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts

2020 Artist Talk, SoHo Beach House Miami - No Fair, Miami, Florida

Panelist, This Sacred Vessel (pt.2), Arsenal Contemporary, New York, New
York, moderated by Jeanette Bisschops, curatorial fellow The New Museum

2019 Panelist, TalkAbout: Wild, Wild Country, Women & Their Work
Gallery, Austin, Texas, moderated by Preetika Rajgariah

Panelist, Art & The Digital Age, Farmacy in Notting Hill, London,
United Kingdom, hosted by The Art/choke

Panelist, Building Community Through Art, The Christian-Green
Gallery at University of Texas at Austin, hosted by the
Commodore-Perry Estate

2018 Artist talk, Bolm Studios- Long Live East!, East Austin
Studio Tour

2015 Curation of Cubicle the Musical, S. Dearborn Gallery Space,
Chicago

Press / Publications

2024 Publication of “nadia waheed, momentum is a forest,” November 2024, catalog,
Nicodim Gallery, Standard Form

Painting “Pilgrims, Sojourners” (2021) included in Taschen’s newest edition of
The Library of Esoterica: Sacred Sites, 2024

2023 Mention in “Devendra Banhart’s Lonely Art”, LAMag, December 2023

”Mandrake Hotel Partners with Nadia Waheed”, Arts & Collections,
October 2023

“10 Standout Artworks Discovered At Expo Chicago 2023”, Galerie Magazine,
April 2023

“Body Language: Three Painters Embrace A Figuration Renaissance With
Dynamic Results”, RL Mag Culture, Spring 2023

2022 “Tired of being ‘fetishized and invisible’, Asian artists are changing the
narrative”, CNN Style, May 2022

“5 Tribeca Shows to See During Frieze New York” ARTnews, May 2022

“Voices: At All Costs”, Harpers Bazaar, May 2022 Print Edition

2021 “Sweet Jane in Fields of Daises: Celebrating Emerging Female Artists”, Phillips
September 2021 “Highlights from Gallery shows”, Artsy, June 2021

2020 "Five Artists to Follow if You Like Frida Kahlo”, Artsy, Dec 2020

“I Climb, I Backtrack, I Float: The New Works of Nadia Waheed”,
Juxtapoz, Dec 2020

“Away At Home: Nadia Waheed”, Dovetail Mag, Issue 02, pages 18-19, Dec 2020

Artist Feature, Slice Magazine, Issue 26, pages 41, 107, Dec 2020

“Nadia Waheed”, Alphabook, V, Fall 2020

“Nadia Waheed. Femmes de Couleurs”, Manifesto XXI, August 2020

“A New Show Featuring 21st Century Twists on Figurative Painting Depict
Subversive, Chimerical, and Gender Fluid Bodies”, Artnet, June 2020

“Nadia Waheed: Jeg Er Ikke Nogen Pæn Pige. Og Det Står Jeg Ved.”, Magisinet
360°, Denmark’s Global Magazine, June 2020

“At Home with | Nadia Waheed”, Interview series with Arsenal Contemporain,
April 2020

“The Female Painters Exploring Our Relationship to the Bodies of Others”,
Elephant, April 2020

“Nadia Waheed: Society as a whole views women as a means to an end”, WePresent,
March 2020

“Meet the Women Artists Diversifying the Nude”, i-D Mag, March 2020

2019 “East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Weekend 1”, Glasstire, November 2019

“A Painter’s Guide to East Austin Studio Tour 2019” , The
Austin Chronicle, November 2019

“Big Medium presents East Austin Studio Tour | Nadia Waheed”,
Promo video for EAST by Swng Productions, November 2019

“Nadia Waheed, Portfolio”, Mulieris Magazine, Pink Issue, October 2019

“Nadia Waheed: Wearing Your Braid as a Badge”, Create
Magazine, Issue 14, pages 42 - 47, April 2019

“Making Space, Austin Artist Nadia Waheed Develops An
International Following”, Tribeza, February 2019

“Nadia Waheed: “Notes From a Windowless Room” At Raw
Paw”, The Austin Chronicle, February 2019

2018 “Artist of the Month: Nadia Waheed”, Brown State of Mind, December 2018

“Using Her Paintbrush to Shift the Lines: Nadia Waheed” at
the East Austin Studio Tour, The Austin South Asian,
December 2018

“East Austin Studio Tour: Recapping Weekend One”, The
Austin Chronicle, November 2018