Meriem Bennani

 

 

Meriem Bennani is known, among other things, for her zany Instagram art; for her recent solo show at MoMA PS1 (featuring a multi-channel Moroccan travelogue told from the point of view of an animated fly); and for gawky sculptural video installations featuring interviews with Moroccan teenagers that were featured as part of the Whitney Biennial.

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Originally from Rabat, Morocco, Meriem Bennani earned her BFA at Cooper Union in New York and her MFA from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She currently lives and works in New York and exhibits internationally.

Party on the Caps, Installation view of Meriem Bennani.  Image: Ben Davis

Read a review of her 2020 Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

See a short video on her retrospective follow this line.

 

Read about her and see images of her work.

Artnet recaps her life and career.

View large-scale installations on her website.