Sharjah Biennial 16

In her work, Claudia Aravena Abughosh often deals with questions of identity, displacements and memory through a unique perspective.

Cory Arcangel employs a wide range of mediums to explore how video games and software can rapidly formulate new communities and traditions.

Burak Arikan uses social, economic and political issues as inputs to generate network maps, rendering power dynamics visible and discussable.

Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker and researcher who reconsiders the Middle Eastern politics of the mid-twentieth century from a contemporary perspective.

Jawshing Arthur Liou creates video installations that employ digital technology to transform representation and reality.

Leo Asemota is a living artist.

Doug Ashford is Associate Professor teaching design, sculpture and theory at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York.

Astral LXXXII is an experimental solo project by singer-songwriter X.

Working within the realm of sound, Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer who explores new methods of collaboration and production.

Working in a wide range of media, Kader Attia reflects on the aesthetics of different cultures and the repercussions of Western cultural hegemony.

Vartan Avakian employs video, installation, photography and other media drawn from popular culture in order to examine the tools and processes of modern cultural production.

Samira Badran’s project for the 9th Sharjah Biennial Have a Pleasant Stay! was a visual and physical metaphor of the concept of suffocation and imprisonment based on the experience of passing through the dense and claustrophobic Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

Jeebesh Bagchi is an artist and curator with the Raqs Media Collective.