Asma  Belhamar  (United Arab Emirates) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice bridges contemporary craft, public space, and urban memory. Raised amid Dubai’s rapidly transforming cityscape, she investigates how architectural change reshapes belonging, identity, and spatial memory through ceramics, architectural interventions, and public art installations. Central to her work is the concept of typophilia ,a fascination with the visual language of built structures and their imprint on human experience.

During the residency, Asma will focus on researching craft traditions, material methodologies, and historical making processes that conceptually align with her ongoing exploration of architecture, memory, and spatial transformation. She will dedicate this period to studying how these craft-based approaches can inform and contextualize her use of digital tools and 3D-printed ceramic forms.

Asma’s solo exhibitions include When the Window Refused to Fly, and the Arch Decided to Hold the Sky at Green Art Gallery, Dubai (2026); and Solid Void at 421, Abu Dhabi (2023). She participated in Sharjah Bienial 15, Sharjah Art Foundation (2023), and has featured in publications including: ‘+ 971: 50 Emirati Creatives Shaping the UAE,’ by Myrna Ayad and Sheikha Latifa Bint (Rizzoli, 2024); and ‘Evaporating Suns: Contemporary Myths from the Arabian Gulf,’ by Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (Hatje Cantz, 2023).

Asma was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she is currently based.

With support from:

Sultan Sooud Al–Qassemi and H.E Noura Al Kaabi with Delfina’s Network of MENASA Patrons.

Special thanks to Green Art Gallery. 

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