Bouchra Khalili studied cinema at the Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle and visual arts at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris‑Cergy. Her work (film, video, installation, photography, and prints) articulates language, subjectivity, and transitional territories to investigate strategies and discourses of resistance as elaborated and narrated by members of minorities. Her work as shown in events such as the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); the Sharjah Biennial (2011, 2023); Documenta 14, Athens (2017); the Milano Triennale (2017); the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); La Triennale, Paris (2012); and the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). She has participated in numerous collective exhibitions such as the Kunsthaus Zurich (2015, 2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018, 2020); New Museum, New York (2014); Tropen Museum, Amsterdam (2013); Haus Der Welt, Berlin (2010, 2013); Beirut Art Center (2011); Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2011); Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2008). In 2023, she received the Sharjah Biennial Prize. A nominee of the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize (2018) and the Artes Mundi Prize (2018), she was also the recipient of the inaugural Terry Riley Humanitarian Award (2021); the Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2017-2018), the Ibsen Award (2017). She is a Professor of Contemporary Art at the Angewandte University in Vienna, and a founding member of La Cinémathèque de Tanger.