Biography

Nadia Waheed (b. 1992, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Austin, TX. She graduated with a BFA in Painting & Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Exhibitions include Let There Be Light, Cannonball Arts Center, Seattle (2026); Mothering, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas (2026); What Binds Me to This Land, Ames Yavuz, Singapore (2025, solo); A Direct Response to Light, 21st Century Painting, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2025); The Endless Forever, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles (2025); Noemata, Ames Yavuz, London (2025, solo); Where the Real Lies, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit (2025); Liang Fu, Chantal Khoury, Daniel Pitín, Nadia Waheed, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); VAMPIRE::MOTHER curated by Jasmine Wahi, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2024); A Strange Icarus, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023, solo); MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Foundation, Dallas, DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York (2023); Wonder Women II, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2022); Heavy Bend, Gallery 1957, London (2022, solo); YOU ME ME YOU, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022); Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); Madeleine Bialke, M. Florine Démosthène, Sahara Longe, Nadia Waheed, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2022); Am I Human Yet, Arsenal Contemporary New York (2021, solo); I Climb, I Backtrack, I Float, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami (2020, solo); Sacred Vessel (pt.2), Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2020); Crossroads, Patel Gallery, Toronto (2020).