Sharjah Biennial 16

In the 9th Sharjah Biennial, selections of poetry by Adele NeJame were exhibited alongside paintings of Hawaiian flowers by her daughter, the artist Melissa Chimera.

Alcino Leite Neto is a Brazilian journalist and critic and the editor and publisher of Três Estrelas, an imprint of Empresa Folha da Manhã dedicated to non-fiction books.

Ernesto Neto draws inspiration from the biomorphic and modernist abstraction of Alexander Calder and Constantin Brancusi.

Established in 2008, New Orleans Airlift is an artist-driven non-profit that not only creates but also funds and produces most of its own work.

In forming New Visions, artists Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Nabil Anani and Tayseer Barakat sought to address a more avant-garde outlook on how art can serve the national struggle, without compromising each artist’s individual expressive style.

Ngaire Blankenberg is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (2021–present).

Gabi Ngcobo is an artist and curator.

Pamela Nguyen Corey researches and teaches modern and contemporary art history, focusing on Southeast Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts.

Encompassing video, sculpture and installation, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s work explores strategies of political resistance.

Amy Niang is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Africa Institute, Sharjah. Her research interests are broadly centred around the history of state formation and sovereignty, Africa’s international relations and the history of geopolitics.

Sofia Niazi is an artist based between London and the West Midlands.

In his work Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of art forms and genres for an integrated artistic approach.

Contemporary art is nothing but a business - we take it as a joke. - Nika Oblak & Primõz Novak

Erkka Nissinen studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and the Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki.

Otobong Nkanga works across a broad spectrum of mediums in order to explore ideas surrounding land and natural resources.