Nasser Al-Attiyah was born in 1972 in Qatar. He studied petroleum engineering at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals from which he received his degree in 1998.

Al-Attiyah is an entirely self-taught artist; He is a past resident of the Fire Station’s nine-month artist in arts program in Doha and he was also an invited artist in residence at the Paris Art Residency, where he spent three months.