Taqwa received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at College of Fine Arts and Design in University of Sharjah in 2016 and completed the Salama Emerging Artists Fellowship in 2018. She participated in a number of regional exhibitions, most recently Sikka Art & Design Festival, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, UAE (2025); Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, Dubai (2023); Time and Identity, Al Safa Arts and Design Library, Dubai, UAE (2023); Sikka Art & Design Festival, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, UAE (2022); 37th Annual Exhibition, Emirates Fine Arts Society, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE (2021); Beyond: Emerging Artists, Art Abu Dhabi, Manarat Alsaadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2018); Community and Critique: SEAF, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2018); 35th Annual Exhibition, Emirates Fine Arts Society, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE (2018); Transition Reconnecting Art, Menior Gallery, London, UK (2017); Art Suop, Etihad Modern Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2017); Mind The Gap, Tashkeel Studio, Dubai, UAE (2017); Is Old Gold?, DUCTAC, Dubai, UAE (2017); Art Nomad - Made in the Emirates, Berlin, Germany (2016); Visions of The Future, Etihad Modern Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2016); Exit 11, College of Fine Arts and Design, Sharjah, UAE (2016); Contemporary Heritage Interpretations, Sharjah Heritage Days, Sharjah, UAE (2016); ECU and UOS Student Exhibition, Greenville, USA (2016); Silence, Sharjah Collection of Art, Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, UAE (2015); Two Sides, Back Load Gallery, College of Fine Arts and Design, Sharjah, UAE (2015); Original Features, Sharjah Collections of Art, UAE (2014); Summer Art, Kalba Art Center, Kalba, UAE (2011).
Taqwa Al Naqbi UAE, b. 1994
Taqwa Alnaqbi (b. Khorfakkan UAE, 1994) is an Emirati artist whose works incorporates handmade papers and mixed media. Her works are inspired by personal experiences that come from her surroundings, which she savors and celebrates through her art. In the Grandmother’s Dress series, Taqwa incorporated fibers from her grandmother’s dresses into the handmade papers process, and embroidered her grandmother's drawings onto the paper with Talli threads as a mean to preserve memories of her grandmother and to celebrate the UAE’s intangible cultural heritage of embroidery practice.