Mattar Bin Lahej (born 1968) is an Emirati painter, photographer and sculptor from Dubai.
He founded Marsam Mattar, the first art gallery in the United Arab Emirates to be managed by an artist.
[1][2] Bin Lahej is also the artist and calligrapher behind the facade on the museum of the future, making it one of the most prominent buildings and structures in Dubai and is described as "the only building that speaks Arabic" [3]