khaled esguerra


art
  1. Heritage Legacy Authentic(2025)
  2. attempt: 20250629_01(2025)
  3. on (in)visibility(2025)
  4. 1501, 308 Al Hisn St(2025)
  5. How to take Possession of what Belongs to you(2024–)
  6. Walking Around Mina(2024)
  7. Do Concrete Towers Dream Of Golden Visas?(2023—)
  8. Abu Dha-me(2022)
  9. In Absentia (Reinterpretation)(2021)
  10. I Just Need to
    Keep Moving    (2021)

design
  1. MAGHRAS: A Farm for Experimentation(2025)
  2. Abu Dhabi (Dis)connected(2025)
  3. MINA MEMORY(2024—)
  4. Spaces that Remain(2024)
  5. Nesmah(2024)
  6. AUS Posters(2023-2024)
  7. MAQAM: Hashel Al Lamki(2023)
  8. Sweating Assets: On
    Climate Conditioning
    and Ecology    (2023)
  9. REEL PALESTINE at Bait
    Al Shamsi    (2023)
  10. BED SPACE AVAILABLE(2022) 
  11. Migrant Journal(2022)


about
  1. artist+educator+designer
  2. BSc visual communication @ AUS
  3. from+based in abu dhabi 
  4. CV available upon request

let’s work →

info





“Fun World” (2023)
iPhone photograph


Khaled Esguerra is a photographer,  artist, designer and educator from Abu Dhabi. — 
Inspired by his experience growing up and living in Abu Dhabi, his practice tackles the complexities of public/private space, urban re-development, and how communities claim belonging in the Gulf. — He works with photography, printmaking and other image-based methods on research-driven, long-term projects. — His artworks have been exhibited in multiple UAE-based institutions, like Jameel Arts Centre, Ishara Art Foundation and Bayt Al Mamzar, and reviewed in media titles like Frieze, Arab News, The National and Canvas Mag. — Khaled was an artist-in-residence for the 2025 Artist Residency Program at 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi.
Recent Exhibitions
  1. “Rays, Ripples, Residue”  — 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE — Nov ‘25—May ‘26 (Group Exhibition)
  2. “SEEN/SCENE IV”  — Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi, UAE — Feb–Apr ‘26 (Group Exhibition)
  3. “No Trespassing”  — Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE — Jul–Aug ‘25 (Group Exhibition)
  4. “Spoon Spade Shovel”  — Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE — May–Jun ‘25 (Group Exhibition)
  5. “Abu Dhabi (Dis)connected”  — MamarLab, Abu Dhabi, UAE — Feb–Apr ‘25 (Group Exhibition)
  6. “Crystal Clear”  — Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai, UAE — Feb–May ‘24 (Group Exhibition)

My work responds to the built environment that surrounds me. I investigate the self as a Gulf migrant through investigating the urban landscapes and collective memories I research, document and archive. I envision the city as my studio — utilizing walking as research practice, observing how time affects the streets, alleyways, buildings, pedestrians, facades, street cats and buses; fervently recording them in the present. 
        I draw influence from my formalist training in my design education, as well as through interests in urban fieldwork and migrant studies in the Gulf. I attempt to archive my own narrative in the context of temporality, observing how the ongoing changes and transformations in the city of Abu Dhabi (de)construct my own identity over time, and its wider implications on the city and its population as a result of rapid change and (re-)development.