Eissa Attar (b. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is an interdisciplinary artist and urban planner whose work explores memory, migration, and the built environment through photography and moving image. Drawing from Saudi’s digital footprint, material culture, and spatial analysis, Attar’s practice examines the layered histories and evolving narratives of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, often centering on Jeddah, Makkah, and the broader Hijaz region. Photography and video are often the starting point of their work, serving as an anchor for explorations of absence, erasure, and belonging. Attar engages with the city’s shifting landscapes—its religious significance, urban transformations, and the ways in which memory is inscribed onto its built environment. These elements are reinterpreted in their studio through material experimentation, digital manipulation, and sculptural interventions, creating works that blur the line between documentation and abstraction.
Attar’s work has been exhibited at Athr’s Young Saudi Artists (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), EFA Project Space (New York City), and Art Dubai (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). They are currently pursuing a dual master’s degree in City Planning and Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
