Fatma Al Ali is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, works on paper, moving image, and spatial installation. Her practice is rooted in archival excavation and historiographic inquiry, engaging both oral and written histories to reconsider narratives of the Gulf region. Through a critical yet understated approach, she revisits inherited and colonial frameworks, foregrounding the entanglements between land, memory, and lived experience. Drawing from historical documents, oral testimonies, and cultural memory, Al Ali examines how identity and territory are constructed and continually reshaped. Her work resists fixed narratives, instead proposing layered and contingent readings of history that attend to absence, fragmentation, and erasure.

Materiality plays a central role in her practice, functioning as both carrier and generator of meaning. She works with geological matter—including sand, rock, and soil sourced from historically resonant sites—alongside found ephemera and archival imagery. These materials are not only formal elements but repositories of cultural and geographic memory, through which research is translated into embodied form.

Fatma Al Ali (b. 1994, UAE) received her BFA in Fine Arts from the University of Sharjah in 2018 and was a Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellow in 2019, in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Seoul Museum of Art (2026) and Alriwaq Gallery, Bahrain (2024), as well as at institutions across the UAE including Warehouse 421 in Abu Dhabi and Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai.

She lives and works in Sharjah.