“I am fascinated by how our constantly changing points of view affect how we interpret both the painted imagery and our own experience, which in turn forms our identity within our cities.”
Born in Amman in 1983, Haddadin is an architect and multidisciplinary visual artist. Her work spans art, architecture, and design, utilizing a range of techniques from traditional painting and printmaking to experimental performative and site-specific spatial installations. Her multi-layered creations explore research-based issues such as inclusivity in urban environments, architectural impermanence, power dynamics, and sustainability in our evolving geographies. Through her art, she constructs imagined utopias and heterotopias, while her architectural endeavors seek to create timeless structures that give back to their surroundings and the nature they emerge from.
She is the founder of the architectural firm Kayn.studio with a B.A. in Architecture. In 2008 she continued her studies in fine arts at the “School of Visual Arts” – “SVA” in New York. Her practice is a merge between her architectural practice, design and art. She was one of two curators for the internationally recognized “Amman Design Week” first and second successful editions, and has been designing public art and design installations around Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
She is an “Arab Fund for Arts and Culture” (AFAC) Grantee for her art installation project “Island 861-How to Disappear” 2015. She had 5 solo exhibitions in Jordan and one in Budapest- Hungary, with multiple local and international group exhibitions and biennales, some of which “Limitless” in Casa Arabe, Madrid 2020. “Performing Bodies” Lakum Art Space, Riyadh, KSA. 2022“Cities Under Quarantine” in Mathaf, Doha, Qatar 2023. “Net Zero” with a commissioned art installation at Ithra, King Abdul Aziz Center for Arts, Dammam, KSA 2023. Her sustainable design project “Sabil”, was sponsored, commissioned and exhibited as part of “Arab Design Now” exhibition during “Doha Design Biennale” 2024 by Qatar Museums.
Her studio Kayn has been active regionally with multiple architectural and interior design projects in Amman, Dubai and Riyadh. Haddadin’s artworks have been auctioned and sold by “Christie’s” auction house and acquired by local and international collectors and institutions such as “Qatar Museums” the “Jordanian Embassy” in Washington DC, the Jordanian Royal Court and collectors from the region and beyond.