Meriem Bennani
Meriem Bennani uses video to re-teach simple, rarely tackled subjects like love, fashion and pop star fantasies.
From the documentary register to reality-TV scenarios, she leads her pieces towards a toned-down neo-mannerism of video effects and installations in relief. This affectionate overstatement gives everyday life the power of the most grandiloquent operas, even if we have never gone to the opera.
She was born in 1988 in Rabat (Morocco), and lives and works in New York (USA). She studied at the Cooper Union in New York and at ENSAD in Paris.
She is represented by SIGNAL in New York.
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2018
The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, SW, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Forthcoming)
SIGNAL, Brooklyn, NY (Forthcoming)
Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK, “Siham & Hafida”
2017
The Kitchen, New York, NY, “Siham & Hafida”
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE. “Ghariba / Stranger”
2016
MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, “FLY”
2015
SIGNAL, Brooklyn, NY, “Gradual Kingdom”
Stream Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Fardaous Funjab”
2014
SIGNAL, Brooklyn, NY, “Paste” (with Hayden Dunham)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
The Twentieth Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
Balice Hertling, Paris, FR, “ Ormai”
Lulu, Mexico City, MX, “The Lulennial II: A Low-Hanging Fruit”
Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, “Eye to Eye”
2017
Samsøñ Gallery, Boston, MA, “Immigrancy”
Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, “Sticky Fingers”
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, “alt-facts”
Public Art Fund, New York, NY, “Commercial Break”
2016
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN, “Flying House”
Frank F. Yang Art & Education Foundation, Shenzhen, CN, “Reality Bytes”
Flax Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, CA, “We Dance, We Smoke, We Kiss”
2015
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, “Unorthodox”
Nour Festival at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, “ARA-B- LESS ?”
SIGNAL, Brooklyn, NY, “Surface Support”
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, “Kick in the Door”
2014
SIGNAL, NEWD, Miami Art Basel 2014, Miami, FL, “In Light,” installation with Hayden Dunham
RESIDENCIES | PANELS | SCREENINGS
2018
Serpentine Galleries, London, UK, “Park Nights 2018”
2017
Public Art Fund, The New School, New York, NY, “Commercial Break: Artist Panel”
Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich, CH, “I Heard You Laughing,” Screening of “FLY (Single Channel)”
221A, Vancouver, CA, “Alternative Facts,” Screening of “FLY (Single Channel)”
KADIST, Paris, FR, “I Heard You Laughing,” Screening of “FLY (Single Channel)”
2016
Boston University, Visiting Artist Talk
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Visiting Artist Talk
KADIST, San Francsisco, CA, “I Heard You Laughing,” Screening of “FLY (Single Channel)”
2015
ESKFF Residency, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, “ Humain trop humain [Journée Thématique]” Screening of Sitting with
Hair Implants (2014), with Flavien Berger.
MoMA PS1 Printshop, Queens, NY, “Render Series” with Maggie Lee, and Liz Magic Laser
EDUCATION
2012 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2011 MFA in Animation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FR
OTHER PROJECTS
2013 “Other Travel,” publication with Hayden Dunham
