Sirine Fattouh is a Lebanese artist and researcher born in 1980 and living between Paris and Beirut. Interested by histories from below, her work, as an artist and researcher consists of examining the consequences of violence and displacements on people’s identities.
Fattouh holds a PhD in Visual Arts and Aesthetics from the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (UFR04) and a Master degree from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts of Paris Clergy (ENSAPC). She taught Visual Arts at the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and is affiliated with the Research Center in Visual Arts (Institut ACTE UMR 8218). In 2011, she was assistant curator for Middle Eastern Art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
She has exhibited her work in group shows and solo exhibitions such as Centre Pompidou (Metz, France), MAXXI Museum (Rome, Italy), Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard (Paris, France), Kaaï Studio (Brussels, Belgium), Beirut Art Center (Beirut, Lebanon), Mucem (Marseille, France), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), The Empty Quarter Gallery (Dubaï, U.A.E.), La Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier (Poissy, France), l'Institut du monde arabe (Paris, France), l'Institut des Cultures d'Islam (Paris, France) and the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece).