Sharjah Biennial 16

Mckie Alvarez is a musician, songwriter, dub-reggae producer, sound designer and DJ.

Spanning drawing, writing, sculpture, video, multimedia and performance, Doa Aly's work explores themes of love, death, madness and alienation.

Francis Alÿs explores issues ranging from political structures and transnational boundaries to questions of how the individual makes sense of social representations and cultural mythologies.

Carlos Amorales’s work spans performance, drawing, digital animation and installation. He has collaborated with graphic designers, communication specialists and musicians.

Nabil Anani is a pivotal figure in the contemporary Palestinian art movement. His practice encompasses painting, ceramics and sculpture, where he pioneered the use of local materials.

Brooklyn-based Ayreen Anastas uses text, film, video, audio and the internet to create work that focuses on legal and discursive shifts around differing notions of security and the subsequent effects on everyday life.

Andrés Denegri is an independent film, TV and video producer and audio-visual installation artist.

Anri Sala grew up under the most repressive regime in Europe, the Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.

Lebanese photographer Ziad Antar uses photography and video in work where the artist's quiet and reflective stance reveals the social and political structures that influence daily life.

Leonor Antunes’s work demonstrates her interest in the social, political and philosophical dimensions of craft.

Caline Aoun works within the frames of urbanism, architecture, print and digital advertising space to produce pieces that playfully increase, invert and suspend environmental noise in a series of measured experiments.

Alfredo Juan and Isabel Aquilizan's projects are informed by their home life as well as their experience as Filipino immigrants to Australia.

Known for his formal geometric sculptures made from simple materials, Rasheed Araeen is widely considered to be an early pioneer of minimalism.