Born 1966 in Gaza, Palestine. Lives and works between Paris and Palestine.

The Gazan born artist, Taysir Batniji, has become one of Palestine’s leading conceptual artists. Batniji first left Gaza at 25 years old, and has travelled intermittently between his current home of Paris and his native Palestine. His displacement between two cities and two cultures has a strong influence on his work and artistic identity – a person and a practice within and without a country, a conflict, and a memory.

Batniji received his BFA from Al Najah University. He went on to study in Italy and France. He participated in the Venice Biennale (2003, 2009 & 2011), the Istanbul Biennial (2012), along with solo exhibitions at Espace Culturel Robert de Lamanon (Marseille, 2013), La BF15 (Lyon, 2012), Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva, 2007) , and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 2004). He has been included in group shows at the Fotohof (Salzburg, 2013), Villa Medici (Rome, 2012) CCA Wattis (San Francisco, 2012), Kunstwerke (Berlin, 2011), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, 2009), and many others. His work was acquired by the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, FNAC, France, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Fondation Louis Vuitton, among others.