Mohammed Abdul Latif Kanoo
Creative Director of the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, Co-owner of Ghaf art Gallery

Mohamed Abdul Latif Kanoo was born in Bahrain, in 1963, in a family which has had a great interest in the arts for generations. The Beit Al Quran museum in Bahrain, which specializes in Islamic and Quranic manuscripts and art was founded by his father. Mr Kanoo studied Economics and Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin (US) and Monetary Economics at the American University in Washington D.C. He now lives in Abu Dhabi, where he is a senior executive in the Kanoo Group, his family business. Furthermore Mr Kanoo is a passionate artist working in a style inspired by pop-art and is co-founder of the Ghaf Art Gallery, the first official art gallery in Abu Dhabi. As creative director of the Abu Dhabi Music and Art Foundation, which was founded in 1996 by H.E. Mrs Hoda Kanoo, Mr Kanoo initiates cultural programmes for local Universities and Schools, and organizes international performances in the field of music, dance and theatre and art shows.

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