Mandy El‑Sayegh earned a BFA in Mixed Media Fine Art from the University of Westminster (2007) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2009). She draws on her Malaysian birth and Palestinian-Chinese heritage in her work, incorporating her father’s Arabic calligraphy into her deeply layered visual language.

El‑Sayegh works across painting, installation, drawing, performance, sound and video. Her practice centers on the concept of the part–whole relation: she composes artworks from fragmented materials—newsprint, clipping, calligraphy, maps, advertisements—layered and obscured by latex, ink, and collage elements to form evocative grids and quasi-archives. Her “Net‑Grid” canvases, for instance, reflect this approach: familiar imagery is obscured within repeated hand-painted structures that simultaneously reveal and conceal meaning. El-Sayegh uses materials like Financial Times pages—chosen both for their tone and symbolism—to anchor her practice in the body, economics, and language systems.

Her first major solo show, Cite Your Sources, opened at Chisenhale Gallery in London in 2019. She has since exhibited internationally, including at Lehmann Maupin (New York, London, Seoul, Palm Beach), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris, London), Overbeck-Gesellschaft Kunstverein Lübeck, Tichyocean Foundation Zürich, and Art Basel Parcours (Basel, 2024). Her work was featured in prominent group shows including the British Art Show 9, Sharjah Biennial 13, Busan Biennale, SculptureCenter New York, and the Drawing Biennial in London.