Tamara Al-Mashouk is a London based Palestinian/Saudi artist and organizer. Through multi-channel video, performance, and architectural installation, her work negotiates the relationship between home (both physical and metaphysical); the movement of people across societal and geographic borders; and memory, with specific focus on the expansion of epigenetics beyond the body into place and matter.

As a socially engaged practitioner in her organizational capacity, she has been producing events for the past ten years. These have included: a BLM poetry night where the stage was the roof of a boat, a fundraiser for the Lebanese thawra, and most recently gatherings that feature food, poetry, music, and discussion and carve vital space for connection within the diasporic Arabic communities in London.

Rooted in anti-racist, de-colonial and abolitionist frameworks these events are positioned in response to Westerncenric, orientatlist and colonial/neo-colonial gazes that exoticize and oversimplify POC bodies and stories. Through the act of gathering, sharing, and celebrating, the events create space for deeply human connection thus cultivating a community that thrives on relational co-evolution.

Al-Mashouk has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yuan Museum, Beijing, Today Is Our Tomorrow festival, Helsinki, and Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana. From 2018 – 2019, Al-Mashouk was a Research Fellow at the the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston, and in 2019, she received a traveling fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SFMA), Tufts University, Boston. In 2021 she received the Stevens Fellowship from Wellesley College from whom she holds a BA in architecture, she has a Masters in Fine Arts from the SFMA.