Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Zaatari, Akram

Zaatari, Akram

Artist

Akram Zaatari produces work on a range of interconnected themes, subjects and practices related to excavation, political resistance, and the production and circulation of images in times of war.

Zahid R. Chaudhary

Zahid R. Chaudhary

Art Professional

Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He specialises in postcolonial studies, visual culture and critical theory.

Kais Zaied is the co-founder of CinéMadart, an arthouse cinema based in Carthage.

Zainal, Abdulrahman

Zainal, Abdulrahman

Artist, Sculptor

Abdulrahman Zainal expresses his ethical and political vision in his work, aiming not to depict his subject matter realistically but rather to portray its narrative context.

Zaman, Sarah

Zaman, Sarah

Vocalist

Sarah Zaman is a vocalist. A student of South-Asian classical music for more than 50 years, she has been mentored by Ustaad Chote Ghulam Ali Khan, Baba Tufail Narowal and Munir Khatun, among others.

The work of painter Fathallah Zamroud is characterised by his expressive brushwork and dramatic use of colour.

Zaninović, Ante

Zaninović, Ante

Artist, Writer

Ante Zaninović was a screenwriter and filmmaker, he is the author of numerous short animated films.

Zanon, Gregorio

Zanon, Gregorio

Artist

Zanon's recent works merge composition and programming to explore emergent phenomena through the spatialisation, in real or virtual spaces, of multiple real-time sound sources.

Zarouq, Areej

Zarouq, Areej

Speaker

Areej Zarrouq is a director, writer and producer who earned a BA in Media Studies from City University, Cairo.

Zaya, Octavio

Zaya, Octavio

Curator, Writer

An independent curator and art writer, Octavio Zaya is currently creating a Decolonial Archive for museum TEA (Tenerife Space for the Arts), Canary Islands.

Zayat, Elias

Zayat, Elias

Artist

Painter and icon restorer, Elias Zayat's art is influenced by religious and popular iconography.

Zeid, Fahrelnissa

Zeid, Fahrelnissa

Artist

A member of the avant-garde D-Group in Istanbul before entering the Paris art scene in the 1940s, Fahrelnissa Zeid was part of the École de Paris, a movement of abstraction that rejected academic methods and intellectual speculation.

Želimir, Žilnik

Želimir, Žilnik

Filmmaker

Želimir Žilnik is an award-winning filmmaker. His first feature film Early Works was awarded the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival (1969).

Zhou Tao

Zhou Tao

Artist, Filmmaker

Zhou Tao’s videos explore means to create a dialogue between moving images, addressing the inner workings of systems and topologies through careful study of specific events in manifold perspective.

Ziou Ziou, Abdeslam

Ziou Ziou, Abdeslam

Art Professional

Abdeslam Ziou Ziou is an independent researcher and art consultant whose research focuses on collective art practices and dynamics, pedagogical experiments and the development of the art world in post-colonial Morocco since the 1960s.

Żmijewski, Artur

Żmijewski, Artur

Artist

Artur Żmijewski creates installations, objects, photographs that explore human behaviour and physicality as a form of social activism.

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