Sarah Alagroobi is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator whose work traverses the shifting terrains of culture, identity, and memory. Holding a Master’s degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London, she operates at the intersection of the Arab world and the West, drawing from post-colonial theory to question fixed narratives and inherited truths. Her art does not seek to answer but to unearth, revealing layers of personal and collective experience with a clarity that feels both intuitive and deliberate. Whether confronting borders, places, or the quiet tension of belonging, Sarah creates with a graceful urgency that is as cerebral as it is visceral.
Her practice reflects a deep engagement with the complexities of heritage and hybridity. Through paintings, installations, text, and spatial interventions, Sarah crafts visual language out of contradiction. She moves with ease between disciplines, but always returns to the fundamental question of how identity is shaped, fragmented, and reframed through time and space. There is a meditative minimalism in her approach, a distilled precision that allows emotion to emerge not through spectacle but through nuance. Her work invites viewers into a dialogue that is at once deeply personal and broadly resonant.
Sarah’s art has received international attention and recognition, capturing the interest of influential design and culture publications such as ESTRO, ID, and Close-Up. Her pieces have been exhibited across prominent regional and global platforms, including Somerset House in London, Salone del Mobile in Milan, Versus Art Project in Istanbul, the Venice Biennale, Dutch Design Week, and ME Collectors Room in Berlin. Within the region, her work has appeared in key cultural spaces such as Warehouse421, Art Jameel, Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, and Alserkal Avenue, affirming her place as a vital voice in contemporary Arab art.
As both an artist and an educator, Sarah occupies a space of reflection and provocation. She does not merely illustrate identity, she dissects it, showing how displacement, diaspora, and duality form the architecture of belonging. Her research complements her artistic practice, grounding it in theory while allowing it to breathe through material exploration. She cultivates an art that questions the architecture of language and power, of home and homeland, of history and inheritance.
Sarah Alagroobi’s work is not a fixed point but a constellation of evolving inquiries. It moves like memory, folding back on itself to reveal new dimensions of what it means to be between worlds. Her art lingers, not in the grand gesture, but in the quiet echo it leaves behind, prompting us to reconsider not only where we come from but how we come to know who we are.


