Bukhari grew up in what she calls
“a business/art environment”

Raneen Bukhari grew up, as she describes it, in “a business/art environment” — her mother an artist, her father a businessman. In 1990 her parents opened Desert Designs, a space fusing culture and design, and since graduating Raneen has run the gallery there while overseeing its marketing and development.

In 2012 she founded LOUD Art, a travelling platform that has given regional emerging artists room to experiment under an annual theme, and in 2013 she co-founded Huna Art, a recurring art-talk series that has since grown into pop-up shows outside the gallery walls. A year-and-a-half curatorial training program with the British Council (2016–2017) culminated in “We Are Not Alone” at Athr Gallery — a turning point, by her own account, in how she approaches working with artists and galleries.

2018 was a landmark year: she opened it with three shows across London, New York and Paris, assisted on “Wholistic — Saudi Cultural Days” for the General Cultural Authority, curated her first retrospective (Mohammed Al-Ghamdi, spanning 1985–2018, at Hafez Gallery), and was named to the BBC’s 2018 list of 100 influential women. Since then her curatorial and logistics work has extended to international platforms including Desert X AlUla and Desert X in Palm Springs, alongside her ongoing work managing artists like Zahrah AlGhamdi.
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