Eman Al Hashemi UAE, b. 1993
Born in 1993, Eman Al Hashemi is a multidisciplinary artist based between Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. Al Hashemi works across ceramics, printmaking, painting and installation. Her practice constructs imagined environments through which she considers the temporal conditions of contemporary life—transformation, repetition and delay.
Working through processes that are deliberately material, handmade and labour-intensive, Al Hashemi examines the relationship between time, labour and automation. Waiting and slowness become both subjects and methods, allowing processes of making, repetition and transformation to unfold as part of the work itself. Through this sustained engagement with material and time, Al Hashemi’s practice considers what it means to remain human within an increasingly automated world.
Al Hashemi earned her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Sharjah in 2016, and MFA in Ceramaics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023. She currently teaches full-time at the College of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Sharjah and continues to develop her practise through walking, observing, documenting, and striving to make sense of the world we live in today.
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Protecting the Suns to the Roundabouts 3 -
Two Suns, No Moon, 2026
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When the Sun Looks at the Sky 4, 2026
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When the Sun Looks at the Sky 3, 2026
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When the Sun Looks at the Sky 2, 2026
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When the Sun Looks at the Sky 1, 2026
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Eternal Daylight, 2026
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Three Suns, 2026
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Two Suns, 2026
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Two Suns 2, 2026
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Suns and Ladders, 2026
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When the Sun Looks at the Sky 2, 2026
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When the Sun Looks at the Sky 1, 2026
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Tilted Sun 1, 2026
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Tilted Sun 2, 2026
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The Sun and The Roundabout, 2026
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Every Road Leads to the Sun, 2026
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The Road to Sunlight, 2026
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Protecting the Suns to the Roundabouts, 2026
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Protecting the Suns to the Roundabouts 2, 2026
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Sun and Moon, or Is It Both, 2026
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Can the Sun and Moon Swim Again 1, 2026
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Eternal Night, 2026
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Can the Sun and Moon Swim Again 2, 2026
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Traffic Light Suns Hide the Moon, 2026
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Can the Sun and Moon Swim Again 3, 2026
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Eternal Day, 2026
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The Rooster that Never Sleeps-Villa Nine Hears You, 2026
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The Good Suns, 2026
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Can the Sun and Moon Swim Again 4, 2026
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When the Day and Night Merge, 2026
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Indoor Outdoor Sun 2, 2026
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Indoor Outdoor Sun 3, 2026
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Indoor Outdoor Sun 4, 2026
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Shams III, 2026
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Shams II, 2026
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Shams I, 2026
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The Good Suns 2, 2026
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Every Saturday, The Suns and Ladders Meet, 2026
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Siraj 2, 2026
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The Good Suns 3, 2026
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Siraj 1, 2026
Eman Al Hashemi (b. Dubai, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines what it means to remain human within increasingly automated systems of production and consumption. Working across ceramics, printmaking, painting, and installations, she constructs imagined environments that probe the temporal conditions of contemporary life, such as transformation, delay and repetition as both process and metaphor.
Central to Al Hashemi’s work is an engagement with imperfection: distortions and inconsistencies. Through these gestures, she resists dominant narratives of efficiency instead proposing slowness and vulnerability as necessary human counterpoints to automation. Her interest in consumerism, archaeology, and rapid infrastructural change reflects a broader inquiry into how value is constructed, circulated, and eroded over time, particularly within accelerated urban contexts.
Al Hashemi has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Sharjah, UAE (2016) and her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA (2023). She currently teaches full-time at the College of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Sharjah. Al Hashemi’s solo exhibitions include, ‘Superficial Transactions’ Curated by Nasser Abdullah at Aisha Al Abbar Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2024) and ‘Square: not square’ at Aisha Al Abbar Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2022).
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: ‘(Dis)connected,’ Marmar Lab, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2025), Aisha Al Abbar Gallery Booth at Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2024), ‘Narratives of Belonging,’ Al Safa Art and Design Library, Dubai, UAE (2024), Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, UAE (2024), Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, The Foundry, Dubai, UAE (2023), ‘Sustainable Tomorrow,’ Zayed University, Dubai, UAE (2023), ‘Graduate Thesis Exhibition,’ Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA (2023), ‘Ceramics Triennial,’ Woods-Gerry Gallery, RI, USA (2023), ‘Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives,’ Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2022), RISD Ceramics Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, RI, USA (2021), ‘Made in Tashkeel,’ Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE (2021), ‘Convergence: 36th Emirates Fine Arts Society Annual Exhibition,’ Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE (2019), ‘Youth Takeover,’ Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2019), ‘Community and Critique: SEAF Cohort 5,’ Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2018), Abu Dhabi Cultural Summit, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2018), ‘Portrait of a Nation,’ Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2016).
Al Hashemi has participated in several residences, including the Teaching Artist Fellowship at Manarat Al Saadiyat Art Studio, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2024), Forsa School, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2019-2020), Sheikha Salama Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF), Abu Dhabi, UAE (2017-2018), Facebook Artists in Residence Program, Dubai, UAE (2017), Exchange Program, East Caroline University/ University of Sharjah (2014).
Her work has gained several awards such as the Printmaking Today Mini Print Editorial Prize, London, UK (2018) and the 4th International Emerging Artist Award (Four Categories), Dubai, UAE (2016).
Her works are held in public collections of Art Jameel Collection, ADMAF, ADEO, Executive Affairs Authority, UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Abu Dhabi Hospitality Academy Les Roches, Citibank and in the private collections of H.E. Zaki Nusseibeh’s Collection and Farhad Bakhtiar.
Al Hashemi currently lives in Dubai and works in Sharjah, UAE.
