Hamad Almuzaini

Hamad Almuzaini is a Kuwaiti architect and artist who lives between Kuwait and Dubai. He works in photography, graphite drawing and sculpture, including hand-built ceramics. His subjects are the ordinary fixtures of Kuwait City, such as broken poles, kerbs, bins, barriers and a worker's discarded glove. He redraws or remakes them for the gallery.

Almuzaini studied architecture at the University of Southern California and took a master's degree in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University. He then worked for practices in Kuwait, Los Angeles, Tokyo and New York, much of it in modular construction. After moving back to Kuwait in 2021, he began photographing how people adapt public space, such as a bent safety barrier used as a bench. An earlier project, Interstices, shown at Sultan Gallery in Kuwait, looked at the 13 cm gaps between the concrete blocks along the Kuwaiti shoreline.

Precarious Beings, his first solo exhibition, opened at Tashkeel in Dubai in 2026 after its Critical Practice programme. It is arranged in three parts, Subjects, Situations and Simulations. Graphite studies on cards lead to a kerb made of toilet paper and joint compound. Wooden panels stand for guards, shopkeepers and maintenance workers.