Tawfik Naas is a researcher based in London whose work explores how historic trauma is carried, remembered, and transformed. His research borrows from ecological and cosmological systems to imagine alternative ways of witnessing the past - understanding it as something continually returning through us.
Solo Shows
Currently
*Manifestations For An Eternal Spring, Flatland Projects, Bexhill, 2026
Past
*(A Study) In Muddled Light, Kip Gallery, London 2026
*Instead, It Bore A Tulip, Bolding Gallery, London, 2025
*Chaos Is A Flower, San Mei Gallery, London, 2024
Duo/Group Shows
*Bling!, Soup Gallery, 2026
*(E)theric Mnemonics: Unfolding Reflections: Through Dreamt Springs of tRaNsFeRRari [Cut flowers still spring] ♫All that I know is, Mirrors inside me, They recognize you♫, Allotment, London, 2025
*How It Feels (Performance Evening), Set Social, London 2023
*Soul Retrieval, London 2022
*Hybrid Libraries, Set Lewisham, London 2022
*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, 2021
*Retracing a Disappearing Landscape, P21 Gallery, London, 2018
Residencies
*NEITHER ON LAND NOR AT SEA; UNIDEE Residency Modules, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy, 2023
*Artist-in-Residence, Gasworks, London, 2021
Readings & Pedagogy
*(E)theric Mnemonics: Noetic Lecture, Auto Italia, 2025
*SET Radio: All Purpose Filla Episode 2: Maria Mahfooz & Tawfik Naas, 2024
*SET Radio: All Purpose Filla Episode 1: Tawfik Naas & Kumbirai Makumbe, 2024
*Tender Xchange: SWITCH (Part of ‘Going Down Getting Out’ group show), Elizabeth Fry House, London 2023
*Think Big, Read Library Launch, London, 2023
*Nose Blind and Humming, San Mei Gallery, London, 2022
*Tender Xchange: Device(s) to Locate #1,2,3, Set Lewisham, *Gasworks, Biblioteka, London, 2022
*Conversation: Practising from afar: engaging with Libyan history Tawfik Naas and Alessandra Ferrini with Simone Frangi and Sabel Gavaldon, 2021
*Guest Speaker, Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Arts + Harris School Academy Workshop, 2019
Press
‘Instead, It Bore A Tulip’: Tawfik Naas at Bolding Gallery, London by Aram Masharqa
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Fine Art. Grad 2019