Amna AlBaker
About:
Amna Al-Baker (b. 1996, Qatar) is an artist whose practice centers on textiles, organic materials, embroidery, and processes of burning and reconstruction, engaging transformation as a methodology rather than simply a metaphor. Rooted in writing and diary-keeping from an early age, her work treats making as an ongoing negotiation between what is released and what is held. Her installations draw on a private archive, bringing fragments of text into public space to test how intimacy, exposure, and power reshape both material and encounter. Engaging fabric as a bodily, living surface, her practice reclaims the domestic, intimate, and ancestral as sites of power, articulating personal and political dimensions of the self.
Al-Baker holds a BSc in Communications from Northwestern University and has exhibited regionally and internationally. She is a founding member of GubGub Studios, an artist-run collective and shared studio space in Qatar. In 2022, she was commissioned to create works for the Ned Doha Art Collection.
Amna Al-Baker (b. 1996, Qatar) is an artist whose practice centers on textiles, organic materials, embroidery, and processes of burning and reconstruction, engaging transformation as a methodology rather than simply a metaphor. Rooted in writing and diary-keeping from an early age, her work treats making as an ongoing negotiation between what is released and what is held. Her installations draw on a private archive, bringing fragments of text into public space to test how intimacy, exposure, and power reshape both material and encounter. Engaging fabric as a bodily, living surface, her practice reclaims the domestic, intimate, and ancestral as sites of power, articulating personal and political dimensions of the self.
Al-Baker holds a BSc in Communications from Northwestern University and has exhibited regionally and internationally. She is a founding member of GubGub Studios, an artist-run collective and shared studio space in Qatar. In 2022, she was commissioned to create works for the Ned Doha Art Collection.