Talal Al Najjar is an artist from the United Arab Emirates based between Los Angeles and Dubai. Driven by collecting, archiving, and distorting, his interdisciplinary practice recontextualizes transhistorical material culture and imagery with an absurdist lens. Defamiliarization and the uncanny teeter and prompt new anthropological and material questions in his work. He produces sculpture, video, sound, CGI animation, painting, and installation, in addition to other media. His primary concerns include ideas around simulation, poor images, artifacts, counter-futurisms, and the contention of postmodern conditions. He received his MFA from ArtCenter College of Design (2023) and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2021). He has exhibited work in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Chicago, and Los Angeles.