2019

  • • Group exhibition ‘Pushing paper: Contemporary drawing from 1970 to now‘, The British Museum, London
  • • Group exhibition ‘4th Baqaa Symposium‘, Amman Museum, Jordan

2018

• Solo Exhibition ‘AWJ: a retrospective exhibition from 1966 to 2018‘, Elmarsa Gallery, La Marsa, Tunisia

• Group exhibition ‘Al Musiqa: Voices and Music of the Arab World‘, Philarmonie de Paris, Cité de la Musique, Paris

• Group exhibition ‘8th Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial‘, Sharjah, UAE

• Group exhibition ‘6èmes Rencontres Victor Segalen‘, Galerie Françoise Livinec, Ecole des filles, Huelgoat, France

• Solo Exhibition ‘AWJ: a retrospective exhibition from 1966 to 2018‘, Fine Arts Centre Gallery, Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait

2017

• Group exhibition ‘9th Dubai International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition‘, produced by Dubai Culture, Wafi Mall, Dubai

2016

• Group exhibition ‘6th Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial‘, Jury Member and Guest of honour, Sharjah, UAE

• Group exhibition ‘Yesterday is tomorrow’s memory: a group show of work from North Africa‘, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai

2015

• Group exhibition ‘8th Dubai International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition‘, produced by Dubai Culture, Wafi Mall, Dubai

2014

• Group exhibition ‘Word & Illumination’, organised by the Medina municipality, in cooperation with The British Museum, Le Meridien Medina Hall, KSA

• Duo exhibition ‘Mapping azimuth, two calligraphical ascencions‘, presented by Elmarsa Gallery during the second edition of JAW: Jeddah Art Week

2013  

• Group exhibition ‘Nun wa al Qalam‘, contemorary Muslim Calligraphy from the Islamic Arts Museum Collections, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Group exhibition ‘Symbiosis of Two Worlds‘, a Modern Art Exhibition presented by The Written Art Foundation, Palais Namaskar, Marrakesh, Morocco

• Group exhibition ‘Khatt and after‘, Modern Contemporary Calligraphy from Mathaf’s collection, Katara Cultural Village, Doha

• Group exhibition ‘Perspectives‘: Nja Mahdaoui, Marios Schwab, Amel Esseghir & Bernard Delletrez by Nini Gollong, Elmarsa Gallery, La Marsa, Tunisia

• Fashion Show ‘Calligrams’, Marios Schwab Autumn/Winter collection, London Fashion Week

• Performance & Exhibition ‘Meeting signs’, with Agostino Ferrari, Confini Festival, Reggio Calabria, Italy

2012

• Group exhibition ‘Salah Stétié and the painters’ – Paul Valéry Museum, Sète, France

• Group exhibition ‘Treasures of the World’s Cultures’ - British Museum, Kunst & Ausstellungshalle

der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

• Group exhibition ‘Written Images’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong

• Group exhibition ‘Journey of the Line’, Athr Gallery, Djeddah

• Group exhibition ‘Treasures of the World’s Cultures’ - British Museum, Manarat Al Saadiyat Gallery, Abu Dhabi

• Charity live creation for Noor Dubai Foundation, with 4 young Emiratis artists, Christie’s, Dubai

• Performance ‘Meeting signs’,with Agostino Ferrari, Living Art National Center, Tunisia

• Group exhibition ‘Written Images’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

2011

• ‘Meissen Art Campus: The new beginning’, Leipzig, Germany

• Group exhibition ‘The Art of Writing’, Wiesbaden Art Forum, Germany

• Duo exhibition ‘Azimuth – Ascension’, with Khaled Ben Slimane at New Sahara Gallery, Los Angeles

• Solo exhibition ‘Wasl’ at Rafia Gallery, Damascus

2010

• Solo exhibition ‘Jafr: the signs alchemy’, Omagh Gallery, Paris

• Group exhibition ‘Breaking boundaries’, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich

• Group exhibition ‘The shape and the word. The contemporary art of calligraphy’, Casa Arabe, Madrid in 2010 and Cordoba in 2011, Spain

• Solo exhibition ‘Wajd’ at Beit Muzna Gallery, Muscat, Oman

2009

• ‘Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam & Modernity’, the Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin

• ’International Exhibition of Calligraphy II’ – Contemporary Musuem of Calligraphy, Moscow

• Group exhibition ‘Routes II’, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London

• Group exhibition ‘Perspectives : Arab & Iranian modern masters’, Phillips de Pury & Company, in partnership with the Saatchi Gallery, London

2008

• Group exhibition, Montcalm Gallery, Gatineau, Canada

• Solo Exhibition, Dar Al Funoon Gallery, Koweit

• Group exhibition ‘Routes II’, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London

• Group exhibition, Hunar Gallery, Dubai

• Islamic Arts Festival – 11th session, ‘Silk Road Festival’ (Exhibition & Guest of honour), Sharjah Arts Museum

• Solo Exhibition, Hewar Art Gallery, Riyadh

• Solo Exhibition, 5th Classical Music Festival, organized by Admaf, Emirates palace, Abu Dhabi

• Solo Exhibition, ‘Francophone Week’, organized by Admaf, the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research and the Ghaf Gallery, Abu Dhabi

• ‘Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle east“ – British Museum, DIFC, Dubai

2007

• Group exhibition ‘The Brush dances & the Ink Signs’, Hermitage Museum, St-Petersburg

• Solo exhibition at Meem Gallery, Dubai

• Group exhibition ‘The Brush dances & the Ink Signs’, State Museum of Oriental Art and Triumph Gallery, Moscow

2006

• Tehran Biennial (Guest of honour and Jury member), Iran

• Sharjah Biennial for the Art of Arabic Calligraphy (Guest of honour & Jury member), UAE

• ‘Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle east’ at the British Museum, London

2002

‘The Art of teh Arabic Book’ at the National Library (BNF), Paris

1996

• Invited by the Jal Foundation for the International Colloquium of Calligraphy, Japan

1995

• ‘Signs, Traces, Calligraphy’, curated by Rose Issa at the Barbican Center, London, the Tropenmuseum Kit, Amsterdam and the Odense Museum, Denmark

• Live performance during the The Arab Woman Court (to Resist Violence Against Women), organized by Arab women and human rights organizations with the cooperation of El Taller Foundation in Beirut. The artwork (1,50 x 15m) was gifted at El Taller Foundation and exhibited at the Beijing Conference and in Cuba and Johannesburg.

• Solo exhibtion at Reda Gallery, Jeddah

1994

• Solo exhibtion ‘1001 nights‘, curated by Rose Issa at the Leighton House Museum – London

• Solo exhibtion at Rochan Gallery, Jeddah

1993

• Solo exhibition at the Cobol Gallery, during the ‘Images of Africa’ Festival, Copenhague, Denmark

• Invited in Japan by the Japan Foundation

1992

• Curator of ‘Contemporary Arab Signs’, an exhibition of artists invited by the Arab League for the Universal Exhibition Sevilla’92

1991

• ‘East and West’, duo exhibition with Wolfgang Heuwinkel at the Unesco – Paris, in Dusseldorf and Berlin and at the Gutenberg Museum in Mayence, Germany in 1993

1987

• Solo exhibtion at the Ludwig Museum – Aachen, Germany

• Solo exhibtion at the Iwalewa Center, Bayreuth, Germany

1986

• Solo exhibition during the Havana Biennial, invited by the Wilfredo Lam Modern Art Center, Cuba

1985

• Invited to the International Visitor Program, by the USIA (United States Information Agency)

1984

• Gold Medal of the City of Jeddah

1982

• Art Basel with Kröner gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

1981

• King Saud Honorary Medal, for his monumental Sculptures and Tapestries in King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and King Khaled International Airport in Ryadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia