Monya Riachi is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice is led by materials and contextual research, and interlaces politics, poetry and affect. Her works approach matter as a site of narrative, movement and transformation, and entangle the political geographies of her home and adopted countries Lebanon and Britain. She collaborates with musicians, craftspeople, writers, geologists, materials scientists and philosophers in the research and making of her work, realised through sculpture, installation, writing and performance.
Monya holds an MFA with distinction from Glasgow School of Art. She was selected for the Fitzrovia Quarter Studio Residencies (2026), Sharjah Art Foundation Residency (2026), and was awarded the Lewisham Arthouse Postgraduate Award (2024) and the Boghossian Foundation Visual Arts Prize (2024). Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, with solo presentations across London and Glasgow, and a commission with YDP London in 2026.
Selected Exhibitions
2026 — A Present Disturbance (solo), Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow
2026 — Ma’amoul Stories (commission), YDP Summer Festival ‘Bubbling’, London
2026 — Analogue (group), Hypha Gallery, London
2026 — Fitzrovia Quarter Residency Exhibition (group), London
2026 — Awaiting Home (group), PalHouse, London
2025 — A River Between Mountains (group), Crafts Council, London
2025 — 3obour (group), Fez, Morocco
2025 — Marché Ouvert (three-person), PSLab, London
2025 — Dear Mark (solo), TACO!, London
2025 — Safe Waters (solo), Lewisham Arthouse, London
2024 — Concerning Geographies (performance), Lewisham Arthouse, London
2024 — Vignettes (group), Lewisham Arthouse, London
2023 — Life is Short! (group), Glasgow
2023 — Encounters (group), Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut
2023 — Where Bougainvilleas Bloom Ceaselessly (solo), Florence Street Gallery, Glasgow
2023 — Short Lapses Long Rolls (three-person), Saltspace, Glasgow
2022 — MFA Interim Show, Glasgow
2022 — Do Something (group), Glasgow
2021 — Rinse (group), Glasgow
Residencies
2026 - Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2026 - Fitzrovia Quarter, London, UK
2025 - 3obour — A River Between Mountains, Morocco
2024 - UNIDEE — Neither at Land Nor at Sea, Italy
2023 - Cove Park — Material Futures, Scotland
2022 - Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
Awards & Bursaries
2026 - Eaton Fund Grant
2025 - Freelands Foundation Artist Bursary
2024 - Boghossian Foundation Visual Arts Prize
2024 - Lewisham Arthouse Postgraduate Award
Artist Talks
2026 - The Archive Lured Me In, P21 Gallery, London
2025 - Concerning Geographies, Entangled Histories, Radio talk with Future Artefacts
2025 - Craft, Colonialism and Ecologies, Craft Council, London
2025 - Marché Ouvert Panel talk with Hadeel Eltayeb
Professional Development
Ongoing - Short Pieces that Move, writing project with Kate Briggs
2025 - ArtQuest Performative Lecture Series
2023 - On Conversation with Kate Briggs
2022 - On Ruination with Jesse Darling & Jumana Manna
Education
2023 - MFA Master of Fine Art (distinction), Glasgow School of Art
2013 - BArch (Architecture), American University of Beirut
Selected Press
2025 - 2M Morocco National Television, feature for 3obour exhibition
2024 - Canvas Magazine 'Boghossian Foundation Prize Lebanon 2024 Winners Announced'
2023 - The Scotsman Featured for Where Bougainvilleas Bloom Ceaselessly
2022 - The Scotsman Featured for The Revolution is Open