Lalla Essaydi

Lalla Essaydi's exhibition L'invisible dévoilé is on view at the Musée des Confluences Dar El Bacha in Marrakech, in the same historic palace where the series Harem was made in 2009.

Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi appropriates traditionally male Islamic art practices and motifs with European Orientalist paintings to illuminate an otherwise stagnant image of the exotified...

On View 7 May — 7 August 2022 Lalla Essaydi creates meticulously staged photographs that deconstruct and reimagine stereotypes of Arab women. Her subjects’ bodies...

A woman reclines, her body twisted away from us, face turned towards the lens. To those with a background knowledge of European art history, her...

Lalla Essaydi’s “A New Gaze,” on show at Edwynn Houk Gallery, also ambitions to break away from externally-imposed constraints. In her body of work, Essaydi...

“We live in a city that is filled with artists and talent and creativity, and we wanted to harness that in our home,” the owner of a Carnegie Hill apartment says.

The work of artist Lalla Essaydi has been acclaimed across the globe.

“Women Take the Floor,” an exhibition at the MFA Boston through May 3, 2021, features 200 mixed-media works by more than 100 women over the past century.

In the photography gallery, rotating works by the Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi incorporate Islamic calligraphy, a sacred art form dominated by men in part because...

Inspired by the east: how the Islamic world influenced western art charts the long and complex cultural interactions between Europe and North America in the...

A panel discussion at The New York Times Art for Tomorrow conference in Doha explored the subject of how Arab women are portrayed in art, with Lalla Essaydi, an artist who lives and works in New York and Marrakesh, and Touria El Glaoui, the founder of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair and the daughter of the renowned Moroccan painter Hassan El Glaoui.

Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East is indeed about beauty. It's also about values, religion and a clash of cultures. And its provocative, dramatic, powerful images linger in the mind.

“She Who Tells a Story,” which includes work by women artists from the Middle Eastern region including by Lalla Essaydi, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this week.

“My message would be: Arab women are not so much oppressed as the Western World thinks. We are women incredibly engaged in our lives, to have a better life,”artist Lalla Essaydi said Tuesday, as she toured her exhibit, “Lalla Essaydi: Revisions,” which opened Wednesday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art.

Lalla Essaydi, one of today’s most provocative and engaging visual artists, is the focus of a multimedia exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art.

“Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,” an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, draws attention to one of the most interesting if puzzling developments in contemporary art: a revival of exotic, often historical imagery of people from faraway places in the name of a critique of exoticism.

Lalla Essaydi published in Aperture Magazine.