Maysa Suliman

Saudi SaudiAl Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Maysa Suliman is a Saudi contemporary artist whose practice explores collective memory, inherited cultural structures, and the traces left by time, pressure, and passage. Working primarily through abstraction, she builds tactile surfaces by hand using gesso, acrylic, and mixed media,...

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Works available: 5 of 5 in the gallery
Prices: 3,900 Saudi riyals to 32,650 Saudi riyals
Sizes: 50–300 cm wide
Mediums: Acrylic and Gypsum on Canvas · Acrylic on Canvas · Mixed Media on Canvas
Years: 2023–2026

Biography

Maysa Suliman is a Saudi contemporary artist whose practice explores collective memory, inherited cultural structures, and the traces left by time, pressure, and passage. Working primarily through abstraction, she builds tactile surfaces by hand using gesso, acrylic, and mixed media, repeatedly layering, sanding, erasing, and rupturing the material. Her work draws from customs, traditions, and cultural memory, examining tensions between fragility and resilience, silence and expression, giving and boundaries, and what disappears versus what remains.

Artist statement

What disappears does not always leave.

Maysa Suliman’s practice explores collective memory as a living force shaped by time, inheritance, pressure, and transformation. Through abstraction, she examines how customs, traditions, and inherited structures move through individual and collective experience, leaving traces that persist even as their forms change.

Her process is physical and accumulative. Layers of gesso, acrylic, and mixed media are built, erased, fractured, and rebuilt by hand. These actions allow the surface to carry its own history: pressure becomes a mark, removal becomes a trace, and rupture becomes part of the work’s formation.

Across her practice, Suliman investigates states of passage and the tensions that accompany them—fragility and resilience, silence and expression, giving and boundaries, individual will and inherited structures. The work remains suspended between disappearance and persistence, returning to a central question: What remains after erasure?

— Maysa Suliman

Photographs

The corridor
A walk through the works of Maysa Suliman
Every work at its real size, hung at eye level.
Maysa Suliman
She Who Remained II, 2026
Acrylic and Gypsum on Canvas
50 × 40 cm
Maysa Suliman
Written by the Soil, 2026
Acrylic on Canvas
120 × 50 cm
Maysa Suliman
Between Presence and Dissolution, 2026
Acrylic on Canvas
130 × 130 cm
Maysa Suliman
Al Qiddiyah 1, 2024
Mixed Media on Canvas
140 × 180 cm
Maysa Suliman
Nostalgia – Triptych, 2023
Mixed Media on Canvas with Vintage Traditional Textile
300 × 140 cm