Maha Alasaker is a Kuwaiti multidisciplinary artist based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, working across ceramics, rust, eco-printing , medicinal herbs, and installation. Her practice explores ritual, materiality, and the intersection of art and protection.

Alasaker’s work engages with archives, female forms, and regeneration through organic materials such as banana peels and her own hair. By working with biodegradable matter, she reimagines materials as active participants in salvage memory. Her work moves from a substantive interest in things toward a methodological exploration of how materials, through their fragility, are inextricable from who we are.

Much of her practice engages with inherited forms of women’s knowledge, particularly those rooted in ritual, healing, and collective practice. Through repetition, duration, and labor, she develops artistic rituals as ongoing processes rather than singular acts. Her practice moves between the personal and the collective, creating spaces for connection beyond language through material, gesture, and shared cultural memory grounded in nature and tradition.

She  holds an MFA from New York University Abu Dhabi (2026) and graduated from the International Center of Photography, New York (2013).

In 2019, Maha published her first photobook, Women of Kuwait, which was acquired by the Getty Research Institute and the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contact: maha.alasaker@gmail.com


Photo by Huda Amin @wheretheworldstops