Born in Dubai in 1992, Jumairy uses experimentations with sound, film, digital technologies and performance to create immersive worlds composed of sensory experiences. Traces and allusions more than closed, finite productions, these experiences occupy and transform spaces, becoming provocations that usher viewers from their present time and place into imagined realms. These experiences accumulate to reveal and populate Jumairy’s world, an evolving and expansive space that is mapped through performative acts, scientific experiments and mysterious rituals taking place on stage, across the big screen and within smartphone apps.
The same prismatic approach structures his music, in which Arabic electro-pop is entwined with the discordant soundscape of industrial music. Through this progressive and expansive mapping, Jumairy evolves, becoming a comprehensive conduit through which the artist explores psychological questions and processes traumas, both personal and collective.
Jumairy's work has been presented through residencies and exhibitions across the region and internationally. Most recently Jumairy has been selected as part of an international delegation of artists by The Sundance Institute. A residency with FARE Arte (2017) resulted in 'BRZ5', Jumairy’s first solo exhibition in Milan, Italy. Most recently an exhibition titled 'Evaporating Suns’ curated by Munira Al Sayegh in Basel, Switzerland, an exhibition in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at Very.Public Studios (2023) titled ‘Heartache’ and in Islamabad, Pakistan at Dastaangoi Gallery (2022) and a public art installation in 2023 in Abu Dhabi titled ‘Luciferin Shores’; a new commission for the Public Art Abu Dhabi exhibition 'Manar’ curated by Alia Zaal and Reem Fadda. His work has also been featured in Art Dubai Art Fair multiple times the first in 2015/16 when he participated in the Art Dubai’s A.i.R. programme in collaboration with Delfina Foundation and Tashkeel, which culminated in an installation and performance work at the fair. Jumairy’s work has been collected and supported by the Barjeel Art Foundation, Jameel Art Centre, Maraya Art Centre and Farook Collection as well as being acquired by private collectors.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 BRZ5, FARE Arte, Milan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Evaporating Suns, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, Basel
2023 Heartache, Very.Public, Riyadh
2023 Geopoetics of The UAE, The Mine, Brussels
2022 Satellite, Dastaangoi Gallery, Islamabad
2021 Zemanna, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
2021 not in, of, along, or relating to a line, NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
2019 From Within, Ad-Diriyah (JAX), Riyadh
2019 Speculative Landscapes, NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
2018 Office Run, Dubai
2018 One Wall, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai
2018 Loser’s Club, Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai
2018 Summery of Dubai Plan 2021, Satellite Gallery, Dubai
2018 Qala 0.8900, Saat Ltr 2a, Satellite Gallery, Dubai
2017 Homage without an Homage, Art Dubai, Dubai
2017 Is Old Gold, DUCTAC, Dubai
2016 Ramadanization, DUCTAC, Dubai
2015 A Burgeoning Collection, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah
2015 A Public Privacy, DUCTAC, Dubai
FAIRS & PUBLIC ART
2023 Public Art Abu Dhabi (Manar), Abu Dhabi
2020 The Bolivia Biennial, Santa Cruz
2019 Art Dubai, Dubai
2017 Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi
2017 Art Dubai, Dubai
2016 Meet D3, Dubai Design District, Dubai
2016 SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai
2016 Art Dubai, Dubai
2014 SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai
2013 SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2022 - Ongoing New Frontier International Delegate, The Sundance Institute, Utah
2019 Campus Art Dubai, Dubai
2019 Art Dubai, Residents, Dubai
2018 Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship SEAF (In Partnership with Rhode Island School of Design), Abu Dhabi
2017 Beyond: Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi
2016 FARE Arte, Milan
2016 Art Dubai, A.I.R. (Artists in Residence), Dubai
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 National Grant Program for Culture & Creativity, Ministry of Culture, UAE
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jameel Art Centre
Barjeel Art Foundation
Maraya Art Centre
Farook Collection
BOOKS & CATALOGUES
Evaporating Suns - Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger
not in, of, along, or relating to a line - NYUAD
Speculative Landscapes - NYUAD
Community and Critique - SEAF 2017/2018
Abu Dhabi Art 2017 - Abu Dhabi Art
Is Old Gold? - DUCTAC
Ramadanization - DUCTAC
A Public Privacy - DUCTAC
