Mohammad
Awaji

Biography

Mohammad Awaji is a painter from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Art entered his life before he could choose it — his father painted throughout his childhood, and the sight of someone making something from nothing left a mark that never faded. Alongside that, he spent years moving through galleries and exhibitions, private and public, absorbing work with the quiet intensity of someone who already knew, on some level, that this was his world.

He never rushed to make it his practice. He let it accumulate. By the time he picked up a brush in late 2025, decades of looking had already done their work.

Working in acrylics — with oils on the horizon — Awaji moves between landscape and abstraction without drawing a clean line between them. His canvases are emotional geographies: scenes that begin in the natural world and end somewhere more internal. Coastlines under impossible skies. Forests that feel like states of mind. A single white stroke across grey — and nothing else. The subject is rarely the point. What lives beneath it is.

His process has no fixed starting point. Sometimes a feeling arrives first. Sometimes a visual. He draws from nature, from philosophy, from literature, from a lifelong habit of deep and restless thinking. The titles reflect this — chosen with the precision of a poet. Verdant Collapse. Submerged Amnesia. Empty Latitude. They are not descriptions. They are invitations.

Since beginning his practice, Awaji has produced over 30 works, several of which have already entered private collections. He has exhibited informally and is actively pursuing broader exhibition opportunities — in Riyadh and beyond. The ambition is clear: to build a serious collector base, to show internationally, and to keep pushing the work into new territory, technically and conceptually.

He signs his work Awaji.M.