This is a list of women artists who were born in
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
or whose artwork is closely associated with that country.
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Baya (1931–1998), painter, ceramist
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Souhila Belbahar (1934-2023), painter
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Myriam Ben (1928–2001), writer, painter
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Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Zaida Ben-Yusuf (November 21, 1869 – September 27, 1933) was an American portrait photographer based in New York. She was known for her artistic portraits of wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans during the turn of the 19th–20th century ...
(1869–1933), photographer
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Nadia Benbouta (born 1970), artist, combines unrelated elements
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Zohra Bensemra (born 1968), photographer
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Samta Benyahia (born 1950), plastic artist
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Zoulikha Bouabdellah
Zoulikha Bouabdellah (born 20 June 1977) is a Russian-born contemporary artist of Algerian descent. She lives and works in Casablanca and Paris.
Biography
The daughter of , a film director and author, and Malika Dorbani, former head of the N ...
(born 1977), plastic artist, videographer
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Aïcha Haddad Aïcha Haddad (; 1937 – February 24, 2005) was an Algerian visual artist. Known by the nickname Moudjahida, she combined Algerian miniaturist tradition with Western art movements like cubism, symbolism, and ''nouveau réalisme''.
Early life
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(1937–2005), visual artist
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Mimi Hafida (active since 2010), poet, visual artist
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech
Bettina Heinen-Ayech (3 September 1937 – 7 June 2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria.
Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes.
Heinen-Ayech died on 7 J ...
(1937–2020), painter
[Musée Public National Cirta: Bettina Heinen-Ayech, Le cinquantenaire de la peinture algerienne, Constantine, 2014]
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Katia Kameli
Katia Kameli (born 1973) is a French-Algerian visual artist who works mainly in film and video. Her primary artistic focus is the subject of Algeria, and she has used film to explore Algerian history, culture and politics. Kameli's solo exhibitio ...
(born 1973), visual artist
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Houria Niati
Houria Niati (born 1948) is an Algerian contemporary artist living in London. Niati specializes in mixed media installations that criticize Western representations and objectification of north African and Middle Eastern women. Her installations ...
(born 1948), installation artist
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Lydia Ourahmane (born 1992), visual and sound artist
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Zineb Sedira
Zineb Sedira (born April 1, 1963) is a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography.
Sedira was shortlisted for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Founda ...
(born 1963), photographer and video artist
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Fatma Zohra Zamoum
Fatma Zohra Zamoum (born 19 January 1967) is a Franco-Algerian writer, filmmaker and educator.
Biography
Zamoun was born in Bordj Menaïel in the north of Algeria, within a well-known family whose ancestors are Omar ben Zamoum and Mohamed ben ...
(born 1967), writer, filmmaker and educator
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Amina Zoubir (born 1983), contemporary artist, filmmaker
References
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artists
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
Artists
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...