Taysir Batniji (b.1966 in Gaza Palestine) lives and works between Paris and Palestine.

Batniji first left Gaza at 25 years old, and has traveled 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. He has become one of Palestine’s leading conceptual artists.

He received his BFA from Al Najah University. He went on to study in Italy and France. The artist has had solo exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, New York (2018); Contemporary Art Space André Malraux, France (2016); 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).

Batniji has been included in group shows at Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels (2018); the La Kunsthalle Mulhouse - Center for Contemporary Art, France (2017); Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany (2017); Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Spain (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2012); Villa Medici (Rome, 2012) CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2012); Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2009); as well as the Venice Biennial (2003, 2009 & 2011) and the Istanbul Biennial (2012). His work is also a part of major collections such as Georges Pompidou, FNAC, France, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Fondation Louis Vuitton, among others.