Nour Jaouda
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Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
2/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
8/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
7/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
4/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
4/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Liquidity
- Very low - no secondary market activity identified
- Primary Market
- Availability
- Works available through Union Pacific Gallery and via Hauser & Wirth viewing rooms
- Market Segment
- Emerging contemporary art market
- Gallery Pricing
- Pricing information not publicly available
- Collector Demographics
- Institutional collectors, contemporary art acquisition funds
- Auction History
- Price Range
- No public auction records found
- Highest Price
- N/A
- Market Status
- Primary market only - no secondary market trading identified
- Total Lots Found
- 0
- Market Trajectory
- Rapid institutional validation with major acquisitions in 2024
- Institutional Acquisitions
- 2024 Frieze Acquisitions
- Hepworth Wakefield: Dust that never settles (2024) - acquired via CAS Collections Fund; Arts Council Collection: The Light in Between (2024) - acquired via Arts Council Collection Frieze Fund
Institutional Presence
Arts Council Collection, UK (The Light in Between, 2024)
The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (Dust that never settles, 2024)
Tate Collection, UK
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
- Exhibitions
- Museum Collections
- Curatorial Interest
- High - selected for Venice Biennale, institutional acquisitions, museum exhibitions
Career & Biography
- Career
- Identity
- Awards
- Inaugural winner of the Emery Prize at Ruskin School of Art (2018)Finalist for the Hopper Prize (2021)Finalist for the Baloise Art Prize (2024)
- Current Residence
- Lives and works between Cairo, Egypt and London, UK
- Artistic Context
- Explores themes of cultural mobility, rootlessness and resilience, destruction and regeneration through hand-dyed textiles that embody 'a constant state of becoming'
Artistic Profile
- Evolution
- From student experimental work to sophisticated installations that integrate personal narrative with social history
- Influences
- Islamic prayer mats and architectural motifsPalestinian poet Mahmoud DarwishLibyan grandmother's fig trees in BenghaziCairene mosque latticework and architectural elementsVictorian architectural motifs (London)
- Themes and Subjects
- Cultural mobility and migrationRootlessness and resilienceMemory and placeIslamic prayer mats and sacred geometryDestruction and regenerationColonial history and geopolitics
- Movements and Periods
- Student Period
- 2015-2021: Development of textile-based practice
- Emerging Period
- 2021-2024: Solo exhibition, Venice Biennale, institutional recognition
- Institutional Validation
- 2024-present: Major acquisitions, biennial commissions
- Techniques and Mediums
- Hand-dyed textiles using natural and synthetic pigments
- Décollage (cutting/deconstructing) and reconstruction techniques
- Integration of steel elements (gates, architectural fragments from Cairo)
- Large-scale textile tapestries that 'limbo sculpture and painting'
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Major Reviews
- Artforum Critics' Picks by Lara el Gibaly (2023)
- The Colourful Sacred Spaces of Nour Jaouda, Frieze by Mariana Fernández (2025)
- Artist Nour Jaouda's landscapes of memory, Art Basel by Sofia Hallström (2024)
- Academic Attention
- Growing scholarly interest, featured in Canvas Magazine, The Arts Newspaper
- Publications and Media
- Featured as one of 'the most exciting young artists in London' by The Standard (2024)
- Coverage in FAD Magazine as part of 'An Uncommon Thread' feature (2025)
- Multiple features in Frieze magazine
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Art Basel 2024 (Statements sector with Union Pacific)Frieze London 2024 (Union Pacific, Booth A05)
- Representation
- Gallery Trajectory
- Strong primary gallery relationship with Union Pacific, growing relationship with Hauser & Wirth
- Secondary Representation
- Hauser & Wirth (viewing room representation)
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