Sharjah Biennial 16

Conceptual artist Mounira Al Solh employs a humorous and playful approach in her work to highlight gender issues, politics and the role of art in Arab society.

Noor Al Suwaidi is a visual artist, working primarily in painting and drawing.

Hala Al-Ani graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor in Visual Communication from the School of Architecture and Design, American University of Sharjah.

Jananne Al-Ani works in photography, film and video. Her early work focuses on Orientalist representations of the Middle East in Western visual culture.

Thuraya Al-Baqsami is a visual artist, journalist and writer whose work engages with poetics and politics, feminism and the feminine.

She received a BFA in Sculpture, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and an MFA in Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. In 2007 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.

Born in Turkey, Nevin Aladağ moved with her family to Germany in 1973. Her study of sculpture heightened her sense of the limits and boundaries of objects and the identity of forms.

Rita Alaoui is a visual artist whose work encompasses many genres. Utilising objects from the surrounding environment, she creates paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography as well as art installations and video performances.

Cartoonist and satirist Khalid Albaih produces work for both social media and print publications.

Safeya Alblooshi experiments with sound in the realms of manipulated field recordings, experimental composition and participatory performance.

Rich in historical references as well as traditional and modern motifs from both Eastern and Western art, Khadim Ali’s drawings and paintings tell stories about the loss of his own cultural heritage in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

Rheim Alkadhi works with images, texts, objects and by interposing the body in decidedly unfixed conditions.

Allora & Calzadilla’s formally unique artistic language is deeply informed by a critical and visionary approach towards meaning-making.

In his critical and political approach, artist and filmmaker Halil Altındere explores political, social and cultural codes, focusing on depicting marginalisation and resistance to oppressive systems.