Sharjah Biennial 16

Catherine David is deputy director of the Musée national d’Art moderne (MNAM) and head of the Research and Globalisation department at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Naminata Diabate’s work seeks to redefine how we understand specific forms of embodied agency in the neoliberal present in global Africa.

Alex Dika Seggerman investigates the intersection of Islam and modernism in art history, including archival research on modern Middle Eastern art movements.

Papy Ebotani has been a dancer for over fifteen years.

Founder and director of Simsara Music PR & Management, Sarah El Miniawy works closely with a wide range of artists and organisations at the forefront of independent music in the Arab world.

Dancer, performer and choreographer, Erin Ellen Kelly uses techniques from Butoh, qigong, gymnastics, farming, cabaret dancing, and performance action-theatre to create performance installation pieces that comment on the human condition and its relationship to environment and society.

Ahmed Foula studied Architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria University.

Joe Girandola is a professional artist originally from Baltimore, USA.

Drummer and music producer Colin James Gordon sees music through the lens of an ethnomusicology background, looking to the past, present and future for inspiration.

Tarek Halaby is a Palestinian-American performer. After graduating from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance, he lived and worked in New York where he danced with a variety of companies and independent choreographers.

Elizabeth Harney’s cross-disciplinary scholarship documents, analyses and publicises the work of artists who have been active in Africa and its diaspora since the beginning of the twentieth century.

Suha Hasan’s research explores obscure histories, material conditions and environmental impacts connected to the built environment, specifically archaeological and heritage sites.

Art historian, critic and curator Salah M. Hassan is Director of The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University.

Mathilde Henrot is the co-founder of Festival Scope Pro, an online service that allows film professionals to watch on demand films from international film festivals (2010).

Heather Igloliorte has devoted much of her scholarly and curatorial career to fostering and amplifying the voices of Inuit and other Indigenous artists, writers, curators and cultural workers.