Sophia Al-Maria 

b. 1983, Tacoma, USA

Sophia Al-Maria is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work spans many disciplines including drawing, collage, sculpture and film, and it is driven by a preoccupation with the power of storytelling and myth. Al-Maria interrogates the enduring orientalist gaze and residual histories of resource extraction and colonial authority in the context of contemporary culture and society. Her works can be viewed as a thorough investigation and dramatisation of the socio-political, economic, and environmental present, weaving together collective and personal narratives. 

Solo exhibitions 

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2023); 
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar (2022); 
Tate Britain, London (2019); 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); 

Group exhibition

La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); 
LUMA Arles, Arles (2021); 
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020); 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019); 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2019); 
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2017); 
New Museum, New York (2014); 
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014), and numerous other venues. 

Curator of

Sad Sack (Book Works, London, 2019) 
Virgin with a Memory (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2014)
The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Perennial, New York, 2012)

Lydia Ourahmane

b. 1992, Saϊda, Algeria

Lydia Ourahmane is a conceptual artist. Her installations, sculptures, moving image and sound works create situations that have consequences beyond the walls of the institution, while negotiating the terms within. Exploring landscapes of displacement and community her work revises how the movement of objects and people are influenced by factors such as state restrictions and invisible barriers. Her recent presentations have involved the audience as material, subject, and author.

Education

2011- 2014 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London
2010 - 2011 Foundation Diploma, Camberwell College of Arts, London

Recent exhibitions

2025 Gothenburg International Biennale of Contemporary Art
2025 2125, w/ Sophia Al-Maria Somerset House, London
2025 Contour Fatigue, Group Show, Emalin, London
2024 Grey Unpleasant Land, w/Sophia Al-Maria, Spike Island, Bristol
2024 Itinéraires Fantômes @CAPC, Bordeaux
2024 Home Sweet Home, MIMOCA, Japan
2024 15th Gwangju Biennale, Pansori, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
2024 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa
2023-24 108 Days, Solo Exhibition, MACBA, Barcelona
2023 The Third Choir, Tate Britain
2023 UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
2023 Women of the 20s, Belmacz, London
2023 Home Sweet Home @The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2023 Polvere, Solo Exhibition, Ordet, Milan
2023 The Cult of Cargo at ZERO, Milan
2023 Waiting for Omar Gatlato, Group Exhibition, Le Magasin, Grenoble
2023 20 x 10 x 5 in collaboration with Alessandro Bava, Fabrizio Ballabio and Filippo Arenosto for PLOT by Asad Raza, Museion, Bolzano
2023 Tassili, Solo Presentation, B7L9, Tunis
2023 Tassili, Solo Presentation, Mercer Union, Toronto
2023 Tassili, Les Ateliers Sauvage, Algiers
2022 Tassili, Solo Presentation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
2022 Hollow Earth, Group Exhibition, Nottingham Contemporary
2022 Vendesi, Solo Exhibition, Progetto, IT
2022 sync, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
2022 Barzakh, Solo Exhibition, S.M.A.K, Ghent
2022 Tassili, Solo Exhibition, Sculpture Centre, New York
2021 Laws of Confusion w/Alex Ayed, Renaissance Society, Chicago
2021 Survival in the Afterlife, Solo Exhibition, Portikus, Frankfurt
2021 34th Bienal de São Paulo