Andrew Riad (b. 2000, Cairo) is a Coptic Nubian Egyptian multidisciplinary artist and poet exploring the intersection of poetry, research, performance, and play. He works with archives, text, moving and still images, and soundscapes to undo a monolithic history and propose a [re]imagined and [re][un]written history revealing silenced and ostracized narratives as original sources of truth and fact. His projects are research based and driven, but they also mythologize life in an attempt to configure an opportunity for play and imagination. For him, language is the experience of sound and ritual; of symbol and gesture and as such, is a site for resurrection, imagination, and [re]integration.  

Riad is a graduate of New York University Abu Dhabi (May, 2022) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Creative Writing and Legal Studies and a graduate of Pratt Institute with an MFA in Writing (May, 2025). He is an alumnus of the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF) and of SAMT Alternative School. His work has been shown and published regionally and internationally including in Mizna Arab Art Journal, Makhzin, The Poetry Project, 421 Arts Campus, Alserkal Avenue, and elsewhere.