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
Upcoming
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 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
Goldsmiths Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London, 2019
lock + transmit, St. Hatcham Church, London, 2019
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