Tamara Al-Mashouk is a visual artist who incorporates strategies of hosting, art making and live performance across a range of multi-disciplinary projects. Through large-scale installations, performance and video, her work explores:
where memory is stored
the body as container
architecture as body
and reflects on:
the movement of people,
collective histories,
and place
She most often works in bodies, in bodies of work.
These days, she can’t stop thinking about:
going home, but
her Saudi Palestinian ancestry x life giving practices
her Palestinian Saudi ancestry x resistance practices
her Palestinian Saudi ancestry x grieving practicescircular economies
how to carve sites of solace within embodied experiences of hyper-politicisation.
email me studio@tamaralmashouk.com
find me (sometimes) on instagram @tamaralmashouk
Solos
2024
I don’t want to stab the beast I just want to go home, Incubator, London
2023
I’d search forever, I want to remember, No.9 Cork Street, London
I’d search forever, I want to remember, The Citadel, Dover
Group Exhibitions
2025
Hard Evidences, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
Mind to Hand, Incubator, London
2024
Five by Five, Incubator, London
Sweeping Tide: Notes Toward Decolonial Feminisms, Gallery North, Northumbria, Newcastle
Women of Colour Art Award, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
Performances / Talks / Residencies / Fellowships / Press
2024
I don’t want to stab the beast I just want to go home: closing performance by ãssia ghendir + sound score by Patricia Doors
I don’t want to stab the beast I just want to go home Conversation with Imani Mason Jordan ft. maqloubeh
Artist talk: Contemporary Art Talks (CAT Talks), Goldsmiths, London
Sweeping Tide: Notes Towards Decolonial Feminisms Panel discussion, Newcastle
Five art legends on five rising stars, Plaster Magazine
2023
ArtsAdmin LAB residency with Patricia Doors, ArtsAdmin, London
Sobre el agua quemada, paisaje no.2 with Patricia Doors, Casa Festival, Brixton House, London
Crossing seas in search of identity, Royal Maritime Museum, London
I’d search forever, I want to remember performance by Fadi Giha, No.9 Cork Street, London
I’d search forever, I want to remember Kasmik Flow takeover, Netil Radio, London
Stevens Fellowship, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA USA
Resonance: Women of Colour Art Award Performance ft Patricia Doors, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
2021
Panelist at F*ck Craft: Prioritising the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation, virtual event by OUT Spoken Press
Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
2019
Panelist: The art of Feminism, Late at Tate Britain
Video Art screening at Today is our tomorrow festival, Helsinki
Residency: Archipelago: Map(s) of the Moving World, CADSR, Aalto University, Helsinki
2018
Research fellow CADSR, Boston / Helsinki / Italy
Commonplaces and Entanglements Residency II, CADSR, Spoleto, Italy
Commonsplaces and Entanglements Residency III, CADSR, Merida, Mexico
Performance: Can you die if you don’t exist?, York Mediale, York UK
Self Produced Activities
2024
Love is resistance, Space for SWANA, London with performances by Dirar Kalash & Kobi Ayensuo + sharing from ãssia ghendir
Grieve into Love > Action with Patricia Doors ft. Maqam Books, Nafs Space, 3eib + a marketplace, filmscreening by Hakawatis & food at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
Free Palestine Mural, Hackney Wick, London
2023
Performance as Protest: Grieve into Love, steps of Hackney Town Hall, London
Palestine Radio, Netil Radio, London
Day for Palestine I, Unit 15, Hackney Wick, London
Day for Palestine II, Unit 15, Hackney Wick, London
I’d search forever, I want to remember Zine workshop by Lorella Bianco ft. Streetsoundsystem at Samphire Multicultural Day, Dover
I’d search forever, I want to remember workshop by Lorella Bianco with Napier ‘residents’, Dover
Hosting as Creative Practice for I’d search forever, I want to remember with Hazem Jamjoum: DAD Urban Room, Dover
2022
A recipe for hosting with Joanna Jones, DAD Urban Room, Dover Arts Development, Dover
Performance: Day of New Fire with Bint Mbareh, Sami El-Enany, Manon Schwich, Rich Mix, London
Performance: Sandcastles with Fadi Giha & Sami El-Enany, Creative support from Ghaith Hilal & Manon Schwich, Kunstraum, London
2021
For the Love of Palestine, a day of food, music, discussion and poetry at Town Hall Hackney Wick, London
From Stonewall to Palestine, a day of food, music, discussion and poetry at Town Hall Hackney Wick, London
Wick Vigil for Palestine, Hackney Wick, London
2020
Imaginary Millions co-host, BLM edition, Hackney Wick, London
BLM mural Hackney Wick, London
BLM poetry night where the stage as the roof of a houseboat, Hackney Wick, London
BLM Vigil Hackney Wick, London
Misc.
2023
Live Q&A with Sama’ Abdulhadi, Resident Advisor, London
Co-Director + Editor: Portrait of Sama’ Abdulhadi, Resident Advisor, London