The Most Famous
ARTISTS from Saudi Arabia
This page contains a list of the greatest Saudi Arabian Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 125 Artists, NaN of which were born in Saudi Arabia. This makes Saudi Arabia the birth place of the 0th most number of Artists.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Saudi Arabian Artists of all time. This list of famous Saudi Arabian Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Manal Al Dowayan (b. 0)
With an HPI of 42.04, Manal Al Dowayan is the most famous Saudi Arabian Artist. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Manal Al Dowayan (Arabic: منال الضويان Manāl aḍ-Ḍawayān; born 1973) is a Saudi Arabian contemporary artist, best known for her participation at the 60th Venice Biennale "Shifting Sands: A Battle Song" (2024) a participatory artwork and multimedia installation that gather the voice of 1000 saudi women, the permanently installed artwork "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" in the desert of AlUla (2020), her collaboration with the British Choreographer Akram Khan as visual Director of Thikra:Night of Remembering (2025, touring the world until 2027), her performance at the Guggenheim of New York Rotunda "From Shattered Ruins New Life Should Bloom" (2023), and Suspended Together from the Home Ground Exhibition at the Barjeel Art Foundation in 2011. She has shown work in a number of shows including the 2012 Soft Power show at Alan Art Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the 2013 Journey of Belonging, a solo show at Athr Gallery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the 2017 100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art in Paris, France, as well as having her work exhibited in the 2014 USA Biennial in Houston, the 2015 P.3: Prospect New Orleans USA Biennial Notes For Now, and the Venice Biennale in the Future of a Promise Exhibition. Her work, mostly participatory, spans many mediums from photography to installation and focuses on a progressive examination and critique women's roles in Saudi society. In 2024, Manal AlDowayan represented Saudi Arabia at the 60th Venice Biennale.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Saudi Arabian artists born between Infinity and 0. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Saudi Arabian artists include Manal Al Dowayan. As of April 2024, 1 new Saudi Arabian artists have been added to Pantheon including Manal Al Dowayan.
