Huda Totonji

Huda Ahmad Totonji is a Saudi-born visual artist, designer, and educator. Totonji is also a master calligrapher and is certified to teach Arabic Calligraphy. Totonji is the president of Huda Art, LLC, which creates custom art for clients. Totonji is also the first person from Saudi Arabia to lecture at Harvard University.

Biography Totonji was born in Riyadh. She earned her bachelor's and master's of fine arts degrees from George Mason University.

She has taken part in over 20 exhibitions worldwide and has a degree in visual information technology. Her paintings vary from portrait to landscape, from still life to calligraphy. She likes to mix things such as newspaper cuttings in her installations and performances. That is how she characterizes her painting, "the female vision is central to what she makes". In 2009 Huda has taken part at the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow 2009 Conference in Doha, Qatar. She was elected among other 300 Muslim leaders from 75 countries to represent Muslim women there.

Totonji's work has been featured in the PBS film, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. The Islamic Broadcasting Network (IBN) wrote that Totonji brings "a sense of reality and humanity to the idea of Muslim woman [...] Huda's goal is to revolutionize the idea that Muslim women are limited."