
Nadia Ayari, Build II, 2016, Oil on linen, 46 x 50 in / 116.8 x 127 cm
Nadia Ayari, Marble II, 2016, Fresco on marble, 10 x 8 x 7 in / 25.4 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm
Nadia Ayari, For A. Martin, 2016, Oil on linen, 35 x 38 1/4 in / 88.9 x 97.2 cm
Nadia Ayari, For A. Martin (Detail), 2016, Oil on linen, 35 x 38 1/4 in / 88.9 x 97.2 cm
Nadia Ayari, Star, 2016, Oil on linen, 28 1/2 x 26 in / 72.4 x 66 cm
Nadia Ayari, Scaffold I, 2016, Oil on linen, 28 1/2 x 26 in / 72.4 x 66 cm
Nadia Ayari, Scaffold I, 2016, Oil on linen, 28 1/2 x 26 in / 72.4 x 66 cm
Nadia Ayari, Continued, 2016, Oil on linen, 26 x 28 1/2 in / 66 x 72.4 cm
Nadia Ayari, Build I, 2016, Oil on linen, 50 x 46 in / 127 x 116.8 cm
Nadia Ayari, Marble IV, 2016, Fresco on marble, 15 x 10 x 11 in 38.1 x 25.4 x 27.9 cm
Nadia Ayari’s work insists on being free while binding itself to narrative forms. Built of abstract charecters, her oil paintings depict a world made up of silent events. Heavily impastoed leaves, branches and red liquid connect the green and blue backgrounds of her canvases. As the compositions vary, the consistency of the rendering allows their forms subtle transgressions.
Her sculptures present a static collision. Fresco mixtures are smoothed onto rough stone and mortar. Containing compositions reminiscent of the paintings, these blocks become remains of prior alien events, sites from which to view the canvases.
Ayari has had solo projects at Luce, Turin (2009), Monya Rowe, New York (2011), The Third Line, Dubai (2013), Taymour Grahne, New York (2016), Untitled, Miami Beach (2016) and has participated in the 12th International Cairo Biennale (2010), the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale (2011) and Art Dubai Projects (2014).
Her work has also been exhibited in venues including the Saatchi Gallery, London, and Monica DeCardenas, Zuoz, Gallery Diet, Florida, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, and DC Moore, New York.
Ayari earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2007) and has been a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing (2006), the Fine Arts Work Center (2010) and AiR Dubai (2014).
She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Nadia Ayari is a part of a group exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, Texas with Amna Asghar, Dennis Congdon, Hilary Doyle, Anthony Gianini, Sedrick Huckaby and Francisco Moreno.
Nadia Ayari's work featured in Purple Diary's Highlights from Untitled art Fair 2016, Miami.
Taymour Grahne Gallery's solo booth featuring Nadia Ayari has been selected as one of the 13 best booths at Untitled 2016 by Artsy.
Vogue Arabia inteviews Nadia Ayari about her solo booth with Taymour Grahne Gallery at Untiled Miami.
Nadia Ayari as well as Carrie Mae Weems, Matthew Weinstein, Marilyn Minter, Hans Haacke, Nancy Chunn, and Vitaly Komar discuss political art with Artforum.
Artnet News includes Taymour Grahne Gallery's A Verdant Summer as part of the "9 Must-See Summer 2016 Group Gallery Shows."
Ryan Steadman of the New York Observer includes A Verdant Summer as "10 Things to Do In New York's Art World Before July 1."
"An array of masterful artworks by a group of spectacular mid-career artists. Whitney Bedford, Holly Coulis and Hannah Whitaker are just a few of the names that will be bringing the heat for this exhibit."
Nadia Ayari's The Fence (2007), previously acquired by the Barjeel Art Foundation is part of the Maraya Art Centre's upcoming exhibition, "Walls and Margins." The group exhibition tackles the affects and consequences of barriers and aims to highlight these many dividing systems as conscious human constructs.