Yasmina Alaoui

Yasmine Alaoui is of French and Moroccan descent, born in New York in 1977. She studied Fine Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and earned a BA in Sculpture from the College of William and Mary.
She currently lives in Marrakech.
The underlying themes behind all her works deal directly with her experiences of multicultural upbringing and aims to bridge extremes by embracing opposites: secular and holy, classical and contemporary, order and chaos, repulsion and attraction. She creates complex and intricate visual works using a wide variety of techniques, which she combines in an authentic manner.
Yasmina has collaborated with photographer Marco Guerra on the Tales of beauty and 1001 Dreams series, which have been and collected and exhibited internationally since 2003. Since then, Alaoui has diversified her projects, stating that her love for different media leads her to use as many as she can, constantly shifting between sculpture, painting, drawing, film making and musical composition.
She was the recipient of the Award for Cultural Diversity at the 2018 Dakar Biennale.

SOLO SHOWS

2024:
“Sediment”, House of Beau Art House en collaboration avec le Fairmont La Marina – Rabat, Maroc
2023 :
“Binatna – Between us”, Comptoir des Mines Galerie – Marrakech, Maroc
2019 :
“1001 Dreams – Yasmina Alaoui & Marco Guerra”,Khalid Art Gallery – Marrakech, Morocco
Retrospective, Galerie Dar El Bacha – Marrakech, Morocco.
2017 :
Exposition individuelle « Sediments », Galerie Opera – New York, États-Unis.
Solo show « Sediments », Opera Gallery – Dubai DIFC – UAE.
2016 :
Public sculpture at Jardins des Arts of Marrakech – Morocco.
Solo show « Sediments », Galerie Opera – Paris, France.
2011 :
Solo show « Tales of Beauty » in collaboration with Marco Guerra, Opera Gallery – NYC, USA.
2010 :
Exposition individuelle avec la galerie Acte 2, 1ere édition de la Menasart Fair – Beirut /Paris.
2009 :
Solo show « Tales of Beauty » in collaboration with Marco Guerra, Opera Gallery – NYC, USA.

GROUP SHOWS

2022 :
« Femmes photographes », Musée national de la photographie – Rabat, Maroc
« Vague marocaine, entre maintenant et après »,Anna Marra Gallery – Rome, Italie
Exposition collective « Between now and then », commissariat Silvia Cirelli, Galleria Anna Mara – Rome, Italie
Exposition collective « Droit de vivre », Fondation TGCC – Casablanca, Maroc
2021 :
Exposition collective « Droit de vivre », Musée MACMA – Marrakech, Maroc
2019 :
Exposition rétrospective, Galerie Dar El Bacha – Marrakech, Maroc
Exposition collective « Material Insanity », MACAAL – Marrakech, Maroc
Open studio, 1 :54 African Art Fair – Marrakech, Maroc
2018 :
Exposition collective « Infinite Present », Leila Heller Gallery – New York, États-Unis
Biennale de Dakar, commissariat Simon Njami – Dakar, Sénégal
2017:
Exposition caritative, centre culturel “Les étoiles du détroit”, organisé par la fondation Ali Zaoua, en collaboration avec la TGCC et l’agence BDA – Tanger, Maroc
Exposition collective « Grisailles », Leila Heller Gallery – New York, États-Unis.

2012: “Summer group show”, David Bloch Gallery – Marrakech, Maroc

2016: “Not New Now”, commissaire Reem Fadda, Marrakech Biennale – Marrakech, Maroc
“Empreinte”, commissaire Mahi Binebine, Musée de la Palmeraie – Marrakech, Maroc
“Sans-titres”, L’Blassa, Marrakech, Maroc
“Étoiles et Toiles”, soutenu par la Fondation TGCC et en collaboration avec l’association Centre les Étoiles, Artorium – Casablanca, Maroc
2015 :
Americana Art Festival; Soho: Collection,Allouche Gallery East Hampton – New York, Etats Unis
Exposition collective « Grisailles », Leila Heller Gallery – New York, États-Unis.
Solo show « Sediments », Opera Gallery – Dubai DIFC – UAE.
2016 :
Public sculpture at Jardins des Arts of Marrakech – Morocco.
Letter « Je te pardonne », exhibit in tribute to Leila Alaoui, Galleria Continua – Les Moulins, France.
Biennale de Marrakech, curated by Reem Fada – Marrakech, Morocco.
Group show at Musée de la Palmeraie, curated by Mahi Binebine – Marrakech, Morocco.
Solo show « Sediments », Galerie Opera – Paris, France.
2014 :
Exposition collective, Leila Heller Gallery, New York – États-Unis.
Biennale de Marrakech – Morocco.
Inaugural exhibition, Musée de l’Art Contemporain Mohamed VI – Rabat, Morocco.
2013 :
Exposition collective « Calligrafitti », commissariat Jeffrey Deitch, Leila Heller Gallery – New York – États-Unis.
Group show « Jamm Arts », curated by Lulu Al Sbaha – Dubai, UAE.
Group show « Syriart », Institut du Monde Arabe – Paris, France.
2012 :
Biennale de Marrakech – Morocco.
Group show « Tools of thought », curated by Anne Huntington, Sotheby’s – NYC, USA.
Group show « Corps et Figures du Corps », Art Space of la Société Générale – Casablanca, Morocco.
2009 :
Solo show « Tales of Beauty » in collaboration with Marco Guerra, Opera Gallery – NYC, USA.
Group show « Endangered », Aicon Gallery – NYC, USA.
Projection during the World Economic Forum of Davos, curated by Nabil Ayouch.
2008 :
Biennale de Marrakech, Salon d’hiver – Marrakech, Morocco.