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.
2022 : Group show « Between now and then », curated by commissariat Silvia Cirelli, Galleria Anna Mara – Rome, Italy.
Group show « Droit de vivre », Fondation TGCC – Casablanca, Morocco.
2021 : Group show « Droit de vivre », Museum MACMA – Marrakech, Morocco.
2019 : Retrospective, Galerie Dar El Bacha – Marrakech, Morocco.
Group show « Material Insanity », MACAAL – Marrakech, Morocco.
Open studio, 1 :54 African Art Fair – Marrakech, Morocco.
2018 : Exposition collective « Infinite Present », Leila Heller Gallery – New York, États-Unis.
Biennale de Dakar, curated by Simon Njami – Dakar, Senegal.
2017 : Exposition individuelle « Sediments », Galerie Opera – New York, États-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.
2011 : Solo show « Tales of Beauty » in collaboration with Marco Guerra, Opera Gallery – NYC, USA.
2010 : Solo show with the Galerie Acte 2, 1st edition of Menasart Fair – Beirut – Lebanon/ Paris- France.
Beirut/Paris.
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.
