Laila Masri is a Palestinian artist, educator, and curator based in Dubai whose multidisciplinary practice charts an intimate topography of healing, heritage, and creative liberation. With over fifteen years of professional experience, Masri’s work defies categorical boundaries, embracing a layered visual language that navigates the tension between chaos and clarity, fragility and endurance. Through a compelling amalgamation of abstract and figurative mark-making, her canvases pulse with emotional intensity and philosophical inquiry—rendering thought not as narrative, but as an ever-evolving space. 

Masri’s journey into mental wellness converges with the ongoing mapping of diasporic memory informed by her lived experience and neurodiverse pedagogy. The artist privileges artistic intention over expectation, surrendering to the process as a radical act of becoming. Whether working on canvas or in her community, she creates spaces, both visual and educational, that are multi-layered, multi-colored, and foremost, fiercely individual. Masri’s work resists creative boundaries, refusing to be defined by a singular cause or tradition. Instead, she offers viewers a window into the interior circuitry of the mind and the boundless nature of the creative psyche.