A Room of One’s Own

Curated by Duygu Demir, NYUAD assistant professor of Art History and curator at the Art Gallery, this exhibition features new work by current MFA students Maha Alasaker, Yuehan Dai, Nour Elbery, Almaha Jaralla, Tooba Shaikh, and Shaima Shamsi that has been developed over the past year. A Room of One’s Own invites viewers to consider the possibilities that emerge when artists are given the freedom to create; the exhibition borrows its title from Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay, which argued that creative work requires both physical space and material support; the works on show reflect on personal and shared histories, examining themes such as colonialism, displacement, systems of power, environmental transformation, and the boundaries, mental and physical, that define experience. To 25 May.