Meriem Bennani

Artist

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