Hayaty Diaries is a London-based nomadic gallery and curatorial platform founded in 2022. Led and curated by Christina Shoucair, it is dedicated to elevating contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a particular focus on women artists, while remaining inclusive of all voices from the region.
Founder Christina Shoucair.
About Hayaty Diaries
Our mission is to amplify the diverse creative identities, artistic expressions, and cultural narratives of the artists we work with. We celebrate each artist’s individuality while highlighting the shared threads that unite them—a commitment to authentic visual storytelling and a fearless approach to art-making.
Central to our work is creating meaningful opportunities for artists to exhibit, promote, and sell their work. This takes shape through exhibitions we curate independently, as well as through collaborative projects curated for partner galleries and international institutions.
Exhibiting across the UK, Europe, and the MENA region, Hayaty Diaries uses curation—both for our own programming and in collaboration with others—to spotlight the talent of this generation, developing inclusive, narrative-driven exhibitions that foreground artistic agency and the transformative potential of collective creativity.
Commissions now open
Commissioning is an exciting new venture at Hayaty Diaries, designed to offer our artists innovative opportunities to engage with creative projects beyond the traditional gallery setting. Through our extensive network, we connect artists with both small and large-scale commissions across various environments, including home interiors, commercial spaces, and institutional projects.