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about
Tawfik Naas is a Libyan art practitioner based in London whose work explores how historic trauma is carried, remembered, shared, and transformed. Framing the garden as a conscious carrier of technology, Naas borrows from ecological systems and transposes them into environments that offer alternative ways of witnessing the past. His practice merges histories with cosmologies of people, plants, light, and spirit—an approach shaped by his ongoing research into ecological and cosmological perspectives. Over the past eight years, he has examined the entanglement of natural resources, memory, and place, cultivating spaces where resilience and renewal emerge through the regenerative rhythms of the natural world.
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Fine Art. Grad 2019
Selected Shows
2024 Chaos Is A Flower, San Mei Gallery, London
2023 How It Feels (Performance Evening), Set Social, London
2022 Soul Retrieval
2022 Hybrid Libraries, Set Lewisham, London
2021 Late Works: Preparations, Cafe Oto, London
2021 60x60x60, Set Lewisham, London
2021 iiiii, Avalon Cafe, London
2021 Mediterranea 19, School of Waters, San Marino
2021 24 Hour Exhibition @YURPDIVER, London
2019 Goldsmiths Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London
2019 lock + transmit, St. Hatcham Church, London
2018 Retracing a Disappearing Landscape, P21 Gallery, London
2017 Utopian Home, Bones and Pearl Studio, London
Residencies
2023 NEITHER ON LAND NOR AT SEA; UNIDEE Residency Modules, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Gasworks, London
Readings & Pedagogy
2025 The David Ireland House, [moisture ++++ more] An Experimental Cacophony / A Way of Being Together / A Writing Workshop, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco
2024 SET Radio: All Purpose Filla Episode 2: Maria Mahfooz & Tawfik Naas
2024 SET Radio: All Purpose Filla Episode 1: Tawfik Naas & Kumbirai Makumbe
2023 Tender Xchange: SWITCH (Part of ‘Going Down Getting Out’ group show), Elizabeth Fry House, London
2023 Think Big, Read Library Launch, London
2022 Nose Blind and Humming, San Mei Gallery, London
2022 Tender Xchange: Device(s) to Locate #1,2,3, Set Lewisham, Gasworks, Biblioteka, London
2021 Conversation: Practising from afar: engaging with Libyan history Tawfik Naas and Alessandra Ferrini with Simone Frangi and Sabel Gavaldon
2019 Guest Speaker, Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Arts + Harris School Academy Workshop.
Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Fine Art. Grad 2019
Selected Shows
2024 Chaos Is A Flower, San Mei Gallery, London
2023 How It Feels (Performance Evening), Set Social, London
2022 Soul Retrieval
2022 Hybrid Libraries, Set Lewisham, London
2021 Late Works: Preparations, Cafe Oto, London
2021 60x60x60, Set Lewisham, London
2021 iiiii, Avalon Cafe, London
2021 Mediterranea 19, School of Waters, San Marino
2021 24 Hour Exhibition @YURPDIVER, London
2019 Goldsmiths Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London
2019 lock + transmit, St. Hatcham Church, London
2018 Retracing a Disappearing Landscape, P21 Gallery, London
2017 Utopian Home, Bones and Pearl Studio, London
Residencies
2023 NEITHER ON LAND NOR AT SEA; UNIDEE Residency Modules, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Gasworks, London
Readings & Pedagogy
2025 The David Ireland House, [moisture ++++ more] An Experimental Cacophony / A Way of Being Together / A Writing Workshop, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco
2024 SET Radio: All Purpose Filla Episode 2: Maria Mahfooz & Tawfik Naas
2024 SET Radio: All Purpose Filla Episode 1: Tawfik Naas & Kumbirai Makumbe
2023 Tender Xchange: SWITCH (Part of ‘Going Down Getting Out’ group show), Elizabeth Fry House, London
2023 Think Big, Read Library Launch, London
2022 Nose Blind and Humming, San Mei Gallery, London
2022 Tender Xchange: Device(s) to Locate #1,2,3, Set Lewisham, Gasworks, Biblioteka, London
2021 Conversation: Practising from afar: engaging with Libyan history Tawfik Naas and Alessandra Ferrini with Simone Frangi and Sabel Gavaldon
2019 Guest Speaker, Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Arts + Harris School Academy Workshop.