Sharjah Biennial 16

Pianist Tarek Yamani has dedicated himself to exploring relationships between African American jazz and classical Arabic music.

Haegue Yang employs ready-made objects such as fans, clothing racks and building materials, to create works that depict a unique play on human experience through temporality and spatialisation.

Jun Yang addresses the architectural, historical and political structures of public and private spaces through the personal narratives of people inhabiting these spaces.

Filmmaker Rami Yasin focuses on developing, directing and producing independent Arab cinema.

Raed Yassin is a video, sound and visual artist and musician whose strongly conceptual work uses image, music and text to explore myriad themes.

Suraj Yengde is a research associate at the Department of African and African American Studies in Harvard University.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings focus on fictional figures that exist outside of specific times and places.

Painting, drawing, engraving, graffiti, photography, video and installation intermesh to create a discourse which contains as much criticism and disruptive power as it does a sort of velvet violence or if you will, an aesthetic violence. Isabel Carlos

Haewon Yoon is an undergraduate assistant instructor of writing and co-host of Seeds Collective.

Tatsuya Yoshida began playing professionally in the early 1980s, and in 1985 he formed his hardcore punk/Zeuhl-influenced band, Ruins.

Yoshimi is an original member of the radical Japanese experimental music group Boredoms.

Bae Young-whan’s artistic practice includes sculpture, painting, drawing and photography, as well as public projects that extend beyond the boundaries of the art world.

As artist, researcher and curator, Ala Younis has explored the formation of the modern Arab world and the potential for renewed thought and action the era continues to inspire.

The sculptures and installations of Mohamed Yousif are distillations of his engagement with and contemplation of the natural environment.