Asma Khoory (b. Dubai, 1994) graduated in 2017 with a BFA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Practices from Zayed University, and in 2018 she was part of the fifth cohort of The Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2022 Asma completed her MA in Anthropology and Museum Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Asma’s practice centers on themes of manufactured time, human relationships, social ideologies, and collective memory, explored through painting and mixed media. Her recent works reflect on memory, how disparate life moments converge and how memory, shaped by recent stillness, has taken on a static quality. Though life continued to unfold, time felt suspended, embodied in her use of concrete as a material metaphor.
Set against the backdrop of Dubai, her work also contemplates memory in a fast-paced urban environment, where constant change makes it difficult to hold onto fleeting moments. Another recurring theme is the relationship between memory and time—how recollections evolve or remain fixed, and how each act of remembering subtly reshapes the past.
Asma’s material approach is fluid, beginning with acrylics and expanding to include symbolic, tactile elements. Concrete appears when addressing stillness and permanence, while used teabags transformed through time and use, represent memory's changing nature.
Asma participated in many group and solo exhibitions including: a radical intimacy of hanging out, Aisha Alabbar Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2025); Through the Years, Abu Dhabi Cultural Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2025); Time and Identity Exhibition, Al Safa Art and Design Library (2023); Azeemah exhibition, Misk Art Week, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia; Speculative Links, Art Dubai, Dubai-UAE; Culture Gate to Existence, The Holy Art Gallery, London-UK (2022); After the beep, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai-UAE (2021); The Youth Takeover, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai-UAE; The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, Meem Gallery, Dubai-UAE (2019); Community and Critique Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship Cohort 5 exhibition, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi-UAE (2018); The Art of Giving Exhibition in collaboration with Al Maktoum Foundation, FN Design, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai-UAE; Woven Heritage International Miniature Printmaking Exhibition, A4 Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai-UAE; The Print Edition, Tashkeel, SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai-UAE (2017); Zayed University Alumni Exhibition, Al Fonoun Association, Abu Dhabi-UAE; ShowCACE Senior Exhibition, Dubai Design District, Dubai-UAE (2016); Taqarob Exhibition, Marsam Mattar, Dubai-UAE; Fallibility of Memory, Print Exchange, Southeast Missouri State University, USA (2015); Nomadic Dolls Exhibition, The 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dubai-UAE (2014); and solo shows such as: Look Beyond Them, Nieuw Dakota Gallery, Amsterdam-Netherlands (2018); Look Beyond Them, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai-UAE (2016).