Taysir Batniji

Taysir Batniji (; born 1966) is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist, living in Paris. He is known primarily as a photographer, and video artist; and in his early career he worked as an installation artist, sculptor, and painter. His work addresses issues of the psychological effects of conflict. Batniji's work has been shown widely in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, including at the Venice Biennale. He has lived in France since 1994.

Batniji studied fine art and painting at An-Najah National University in Nablus. In 1994, he was awarded a fellowship to study at the (ENSA; English: School of Fine Arts of Bourges) in Bourges, France. He obtained French nationality in 2012.

Career Batniji's artwork is often displaying personal history, and the ongoing conflicts in Gaza. In 2012, he was awarded the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, for the To My Brother series. The Disruptions series was published in 2024 as an art book, with all of the profits going to the British medical charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians. the V&A Museum in London; the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar; and the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) in Valencia, Spain.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Diplopie (2016), solo exhibition, Espace d’Art Contemporain André Malraux, Colmar, France Home Away From Home* (2018), solo exhibition, Aperture Foundation, New York City, New York, USA Suspended Time (2019), solo exhibition, Prefix Institut of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada No Condition Is Permanent (2022–2023), solo retrospective exhibition, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar

Group exhibitions The Future of a Promise (2011) group exhibition, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Rights of Future Generation (2019) group exhibition, 1st Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah, UAE 14th Fellbach Triennial (2019) group exhibition, Fellbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 7th Yokohama Triennale (2020) group exhibition, Yokohama, Japan 12th Berlin Biennale (2022) group exhibition, Berlin, Germany