Nevine Mahmoud is a Los Angeles–based sculptor whose practice investigates the intersections of gender, history, and materiality. Through an intensive process of carving and surface refinement, she produces sculptures in stone, glass, and bronze that resist fixed definitions of femininity. Her works balance sensuality with force, their polished surfaces interrupted by bumps, fractures, and irregularities that recall the vulnerability of flesh. By using deer as proxies for human bodies, Mahmoud introduces distance and ambiguity, allowing forms to be cropped, bisected, and contorted into charged gestures. Anchored in the ancient tradition of stone carving, her work reconsiders how bodies are seen, idealized, and consumed.

Nevine Mahmoud (b. 1988, London) lives and works in Los Angeles. Past solo and two person exhibitions include Second Nature, Asia Society, Houston Texas (2026), Babe at Paul Soto x Soft Opening, Los Angeles (2024) Collapse at Soft Opening at CFA, Milan (2023) with Maren Karlson; in mass and feeling at Soft Opening, London (2022); MATRIX 188 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut (2022); the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles (2021); foreplay II at M+B, Los Angeles (2021); bella donna at Nina Johnson, Miami (2019); belly room at Soft Opening, London (2019); f o r e p l a y at M+B, Los Angeles (2017) and The Poet, The Critic and The Missing at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Rayon Jouets at Hangar Y, Paris; perfectly round, as we left them at the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan (2021); Romancing the Mirror at MOCA Jacksonville, Florida (2020); Holly Coulis, Nevine Mahmoud & Christina Ramberg at Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2019); The Artist is Present, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai (2018); Dreamers Awake: Women Artists After Surrealism at White Cube, London (2017); MADEMOISELLE at the Centre Régional D’art Contemporain Occitanie in Sète (2018); This is Presence at Ballroom Marfa (2016) and The Lasting Concept at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2018).