Zoulikha Bouabdellah is the daughter of Hassen Bouabdellah, a film director and Algerian writer, and Malika Dorbani, ex-head of the Algiers Fine Art Museum. Following her birth in Moscow in 1977, Zoulikha Bouabdellah grew up in the Algerian capital until the age of 16. In 1993, while the civil war was raging her family chose to leavie Algeria and settle in France where she still resides. Zoulikha graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Cergy-Pontoise in 2002 in Paris. Favoring video in her debut, she now works in a multitude of media challenging cultural dualities and imbalances, as well as cultural fusion and the ability to transcend borders.
Read MoreZoulikha Bouabdellah has won several prizes, including recipient of the The Prix Meurice for Contemporary Art, Paris, France in 2008 with her sculpture The Kiss, one of the three winners of the inaugural Abraaj Capital Prize, Dubaï, UAE in 2009 with her installation, Walking on the Sky, Pisces, Algerian Prize for young Algerian creation and Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (AFAA - Cape Town, South Africa). She has been shown all over the world in fairs, institutions and biennales such as the Venice Biennial, Art Dubai, FIAC, Art Brussels, Aichi Triennial, Bamako Biennial, Mead Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, MoCADA, Brooklyn Museum, etc. She has also completed several residencies, most recently at the Art School Palestine in Ramallah, but also at Amherst College in the Massachussetts and in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2010, a bilingual monograph SOFTTRANSGRESSION was published by Gold Digger, Editions La B.A.N.K.
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