Yasmina Alaoui was born in New York in 1977 of French and Moroccan descent. She started making art at the age of seven. To further to pursue her passion and talent for art, Alaoui studied Fine Arts at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris and earned a BA in Sculpture from the College of William and Mary.
Read MoreImmersed in a bicultural environment with a Moroccan father and a French mother, Yasmina Alaoui immediately asserted her refusal of every stereotype and finds inspiration into a large panel of artistic movements, allowing herself to incorporated into her art any subject that gets her attention.
The underlying themes behind all her works deal directly with her experiences of multicultural upbringing and aim to bridge extremes by embracing opposites: secular and holy, classical and contemporary, order and chaos, repulsion and attraction.
She is known to create complex and intricate visual works using a wide variety of techniques, which she combines in an authenticated manner. Her professional artistic career truly began with the collaboration she made with the photographer Marco Guerra and from which resulted in the 1001 Dreams series in 2003. Since then Yasmina Alaoui had diversified her projects, saying that her love for different media leads her to use all of them, constantly shifting between sculpture, painting, drawing, fashion and jewelry designing, film making and music composing.
More recently, the artist has started to explore new artistic horizons, producing large-framed works (panel paintings, triptychs and square formats) with abstract compositions evoking landscapes seen from the sky. She currently lives and works in New York. Her works have been collected and exhibited internationally since 2003.
