Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese artist and editor.
He works primarily in sculpture and across other media.
His practice explores desire and progress.
His artworks navigate social and political projects of progress: how they seduce, manifest, and shape our lives. The works draw on nonconforming desires that reveal other ways of being under dominant narratives of progress.
His recent projects explore diplomacy, poetry, queerness, and monstrosity.
He lives in Rotterdam.
In the Face of the Dragon, 2025. Install shot. Hardcover book. Commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
Currently, I am working on a series of sculptures, a book, a performance, and a film. They will be shown in 2026-2028.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions:
Elegiac Whispers, A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine, 2026
TBA, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, England, 2026
Sun, Don't Rush to be Red. Son, Don't Rush to be Read, TENT, Rotterdam, NL, 2025-26
SOLO - In Practice: Nadim Choufi, SculptureCenter, New York, US, 2025
Editorial:
Co-editor: I Will Always Be Looking For You - A Queer Anthology on Arab Art. Published Aug 2025
Managing Editor: Journal Safar
Recent News:
Singing with Severed Tongues: On Nadim Choufi's In the Face of the Dragon by Maru Pabón, Ibraaz, 2026
Winner of the Visual Arts Prize, Boghossian Foundation, 2025
Nadim Choufi: Reweaving Language, Remaking Worlds by Aziz Sohail, Mousse Magazine, 2025