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Meriem Bennani

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Meriem Bennani (born 1988) is a Moroccan artist currently based in New York City. Bennani was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012, and an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Bennani works in video, sculpture, multimedia installation, drawing, and Instagram. She is known for her playful and humorous use of digital technologies such as 3D animation, projection mapping, and motion capture.[4][5][6][7][8] She often publishes her work on social media such as Instagram and Snapchat, having over thirty-seven-thousand followers on the latter as of July 2020. Bennani was one of the four artists featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial who formally requested that their work be removed via a collective letter which was also published on Artforum. In 2020 Bennani collaborated with Orian Barki on a series entitled 2 Lizards. The subject of the series is life in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 8 short videos are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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She was the winner of the 2019 Eye Art & Film Prize.

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