Biography
Nasser Almulhim was born in Riyadh in 1988 and grew up in the Al-Malaz neighbourhood — a community populated by expat families from Sudan, Egypt and Jordan, which gave him an early and diverse window onto the Arab world. He holds a BA in Studio Art from the University of West Florida in Pensacola. He came to painting not from ambition but from necessity: a way of processing mental health challenges through colour and form, drawing from Sufism, Buddhism, Jungian psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism simultaneously. He describes art-making as opening "the gate of self-healing." The work is vibrant, saturated, geometric and organic at once — paintings and sculptures that meditates upon the interaction between form and the human psyche. He has had public installations commissioned at ICD Brookfield Place and received a façade commission at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah. His work is in the Dubai Collection. He has been covered in GQ Middle East, Arab News and Mojeh, and participated in Art Week Riyadh and international exhibitions across the Gulf.