Ghia Haddad is an artist and researcher working across visual storytelling, cultural memory, and questions of place and belonging. With a combined background in graphic design, art history, and museum studies, her practice bridges the academic and the material. Based in Dubai, her studio work explores how textiles—often excluded from the canon of art history—can reclaim space when brought into conversation with painting. Through this layered approach, she blurs boundaries between craft and fine art, personal and political, tradition and experimentation.

Ghia believes that art can be a powerful vehicle for social change, and that artists hold the tools to challenge, question, and reimagine the world around them. She gives talks, leads workshops, and writes research on these intersecting themes, and is also experienced in organizing, moderating, and speaking on panels. She recently completed a master’s thesis on how Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) influences the representation of Palestinian culture in Western museums—one thread in a broader exploration of heritage, identity, and resistance.

Her work has been exhibited extensively in the MENA region, in Germany, and across the United States—including in Illinois, Maryland, Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and California.

Ghia’s art is available for sale at Saatchi Art and through email here for direct inquiries about sales, studio visits, panel talks, interviews and more!