Points of View: Dubai

15 July - 15 September 2026

JD Malat Gallery Dubai is pleased to present Points of View, its annual Summer Group Exhibition, bringing together twelve international artists whose diverse practices offer distinct perspectives on the world around us. Points of View invites viewers to consider how perception is shaped through memory, identity, history, place, emotion, and imagination. Each artist approaches these ideas from a unique standpoint, transforming personal experiences, cultural references, and individual processes into distinct visual expressions. While each artist maintains a unique practice, the works are united by a shared curiosity about how we perceive, experience, and interpret our environment, reminding us that there is no singular way of seeing the world.
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Shane Guffogg, At the Still Point of the Turning World/ Appeasing Long Forgotten Wars, 2013 - 2016
Perspective As Experience

Points of View brings together twelve international artists whose practices span abstraction, figuration, text, and conceptual painting, each offering a distinct way of engaging with the world. Rather than presenting a singular narrative, the exhibition embraces multiple viewpoints, demonstrating how personal histories, cultural contexts, and individual experiences shape artistic expression. Through diverse visual languages, the works encourage viewers to reflect on the many ways perception is formed and transformed.
Seeing As Dialogue

Across the exhibition, familiar subjects are reimagined through unique artistic processes, inviting moments of reflection, curiosity, and reinterpretation. While each artist maintains a distinct voice, the works are connected by a shared interest in how we experience memory, identity, place, emotion, and time. Points of View becomes an open dialogue between artist and viewer, where meaning is not fixed but continually shaped through individual perspective, reminding us that every act of looking offers the possibility of seeing something new.
Andy Moses, Geomorphology 1108, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 in, 91.4 x 182.9 cm.

ANDY MOSES (B. 1962, LOS ANGELES)

A key figure in Lyrical Abstraction, Moses creates fluid, iridescent surfaces that evoke natural and cosmic phenomena. His process-driven works shift according to movement and light.
Ed Moses, Edward #2, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 60 in, 243.8 x 152.4 cm.

ED MOSES (USA)

A seminal West Coast artist whose works balance chaos and structure. Through grids, stains, and layered gestures, he investigates transparency, surface, and the instability of form.
Kojo Marfo, Solstride, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 80 3/4 x 71 5/8 in, 205 x 182 cm

KOJO MARFO (GHANA)

Marfo blends Akan visual symbols with contemporary socio-political themes. His stylised figures explore identity, migration, and memory through bold shapes and luminous color.
Lu Xinjian, The Qasar Al Watan No.2, 2022 Acrylic on canvas, 94 7/8 x 83 1/8 in, 241 x 211 cm.

LU XINJIAN (B. 1977 , CHINA)

Lu Xinjian transforms urban landscapes into precise, abstract compositions using lines, shapes, and colour. Best known for his City DNA series, he translates aerial views into rhythmic visual codes that capture the identity and complexity of cities.
Luis Olaso, Composition for a table with a bottle and flowers, 2025, Oil, acrylic, oil bar, and oil pastel on canvas, 59 x 59 in , 150 x 150 cm.

LUIS OLASO (B. 1986, SPAIN)

Olaso works through a dynamic two-stage process of impulsive mark-making and reflective analysis, creating expressive, abstracted compositions. His large-scale paintings blend organic and human forms, exploring tensions between colour, shape, and chance, while functioning as visceral self-portraits of his emotional and subconscious states.
MASAYOSHI NOJO (B. 1989, JAPAN)

Working through the lens of Neo-Nihonga, Nojo blends Japanese aesthetic tradition with contemporary materiality. His oxidized silver-foil surfaces explore memory, impermanence, and the passing of time.
Phoebe Leech, For Who, I Wonder?, 2026, Oil on linen, 84 1/4 x 63 in, 214 x 171 cm.

PHOEBE LEECH (B. 1999, UK)

Leech’s painterly exploration of masculinity, innocence, and emotional visibility examines how identity is formed, concealed, and remembered, using the body as both subject and metaphor. Working primarily in oil, she layers paint with instinctive mark-making that evokes both intimacy and distance.
Robert Montgomery, WHENEVER YOU SEE THE SUN, 2014/2026, Recycled polymer, wood, copper, and 12v LED lights., 66 1/8 x 61 3/4 in, 168 x 157 cm, First of the edition is in the LVMH Collection.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY (B. 1972, UK)

Montgomery is a British contemporary artist renowned for his text-based works that merge poetry and visual art. Working across light installations, billboards, paintings, and fire poems, his practice explores themes of love, memory, hope, and ecology, transforming language into powerful reflections on contemporary life.
Santiago Parra, Untitled , 2026, Acrylic on canvas, 149 x 149 cm.

SANTIAGO PARRA (B. 1986, COLOMBIA)

Parra’s large-scale black brushstrokes on white grounds return to Action Painting with radical simplicity. His automatic gestures channel urgency, purity, and emotional intensity.
Shane Guffogg, At the Still Point of the Turning World - By a Grace of Sense, a White Light, Still and Moving, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 60 in , 152.4 x 152.4 cm.

SHANE GUFFOG (B. 1962, USA)

Guffogg is an American contemporary artist whose luminous abstract paintings investigate light, consciousness, and the unseen. Drawing on art history, spirituality, and scientific thought, his layered compositions create a visual language that explores the relationship between emotion, perception, and the invisible forces that shape human experience.
Sophie-Yen Bretez, « I left the room without a sound, mistook the window for the door perhaps outside was already inside. », 2025, Oil on linen, 45 1/4 x 65 in, 115 x 165 cm.

SOPHIE-YEN BRETEZ (B. 1994, VIETNAM)

Bretez explores what she calls a “dramaturgy of passage,” using shaped canvases and symbolic objects to navigate memory, thresholds, and layered temporalities. Her works blend narrative intimacy with expansive horizons.
Tim Kent, Runaway!, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 69 3/4 x 74 in, 177.2 x 188 cm.

TIM KENT (B. 1975, CANADA)

Kent’s paintings merge historical references, architectural perspective, and contemporary fragmentation. His imagined interiors and landscapes examine power, transformation, and the intersections of past and present.
Ur Kasin, The Muse, 2025, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 51 1/8 in, 200 x 130 cm.

UR KASIN (B. 1998, ROMANIA)

A contemporary painter exploring the tension between structure and spontaneity. Her layered, gestural compositions balance control and disruption, creating abstract spaces that reflect memory, instability, and the passage of time.