From Dubai to the Met Gala, Samar Hejazi reshapes the body through reflection and exchange.
Samar Hejazi’s work does not arrive fully formed, nor does it settle into a single medium or definition. It moves, expands, and reshapes itself over time, much like the questions that drive it. Selected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute to design bespoke mannequin heads for its Spring 2026 exhibition Costume Art, the Dubai-based Palestinian-Canadian artist brings this evolving language to a global stage, unveiled in the lead-up to the Met Gala. Yet even at this scale, her work resists spectacle, choosing instead to quietly shift the way we look, and what we see.
