Sharjah Biennial 16

Maryam Rahman is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice encompasses video, installation, public art intervention, miniature painting and drawing. She has a particular affinity with drawing as a thinking tool, a direct mode of expression and a formal art discipline.

Younes Rahmoun draws inspiration for his work from interdisciplinary and complementary sources.

Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni was born in Morocco and studied at the Institut National des Beaux-Arts, Tétouan, Morocco.

The work of Arnulf Rainer has explored the conceptual and communicative capacity of painting.

Artist duo Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani explore the politics of infrastructure, development and securitisation in the rapidly transforming city of Karachi.

Omar Rajeh is a choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Maqamat Dance Theatre which he founded in 2002.

Through his exploration of history and current affairs, Michael Rakowitz creates public projects, installations and events.

Ayman Ramadan’s practice emerges from and responds to street culture and the practices of everyday life in the small village of Sharqiya where he grew up, and the chaotic megalopolis of Cairo where he moved to as a teenager.

Sara Ramo appropriates everyday elements and scenes, displacing them from their original context and rearranging them in videos, photographs, collages, sculptures and installations.

A modernist who apprenticed with Moustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi, studied with Fernand Léger, copiously analysed Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’ and worked at l’atelier d’art abstrait in the 1940s, Saloua Raouda Choucair developed a unique abstract practice that included sculpture, painting, industrial design and public art.

Formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective practises across installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica and curation.

May Rashed creates works using painting, photography, performance, video and podcasts.

RAW Material Company is a center for art, knowledge and society.

Created from industrial materials such as concrete, metal, rubber, tar, textile, and glass, Marwan Rechmaoui’s work reflects his methodical study of cartography, demographics and urbanisation.