Monya Riachi is an interdisciplinary artist.  Her practice is material driven and research-led, and is explored through sculpture, installation, moving image, sound and writing. Her work centres matter as a site of meaning, narrative and archive, and explores themes around loss, ecological transformation, the politics of land and time. Through a broader meditation on socio-ecological transformation, her practice engages with Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism - where matter is generative in bringing forth [new matter and] new worlds.

Monya is based London and works between the United Kingdom and Lebanon. She is the recipient of the 2024 Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award. Her work has been exhibited in Glasgow, Beirut and London. Previous residencies inclue Material Futures  at Cove Park in 2023 and Ashkal Alwan Beirut in 2022. She holds an MFA with distinction from Glasgow School of Art and has a prior background in architecture. 




Selected Exhibitions

2025 - A River Between Mountains Group Exhibition, Crafts Council London
2025 - 3obour  Residency Exhibition, Fez Morocco
2025 - Marché Ouvert  3-person show, PSLab London
2025 - Dear Mark  Solo Performance, TACO! London
2025 - Safe Waters  Solo Exhibition, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2024 - Concerning Geographies  Solo Performance, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2024 - Vignettes Group Exhibition,  Lewisham Arthouse, London
2023 - Life is Short!   Group Exhibition, Glasgow
2023 - Encounters  Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut
2023 - Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show  Glasgow
2023 - Short Lapses Long Rolls  3-person show, Saltspace Glasgow
2022 - MFA Interim Show  Glasgow
2022 - Do Something  Group Exhibition, Glasgow
2021 - Rinse  Group Exhibition, Glasgow
2020 - ASC Open  Group Exhibition, London


Residencies

2025 - 3obour A River Between Mountains
2023 - Cove Park Material Futures Residency
2022 - Ashkal Alwan Residency



Awards

2025 - Freelands Foundation Artist Bursary
2024 - Boghossian Foundation Visual Arts Prize ​
2024 - Lewisham Arthouse Postgraduate Award




Education


2023 -  MFA Master of Fine Art (distinction), Glasgow School of Art
2013 -  BArch (Architecture), American University of Beirut