Shani Ha (1987, Algerian, French) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her sculptures, performances, public art, photography and drawings investigate the somatic fragility of empathy, intimacy, otherness, and humanity at large.
From individual to collective, singular to universal, ephemeral to permanent, contemplation to action, the abstraction and fluidity of space in her work has been central to her practices.
The experience of art is made interactive, reflexive and familiar through mouvement, perception and relation.
Shani Ha received a MFA from l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans in 2012, she works in New York (Brooklyn) and Paris (Seine-Saint-Denis) since 2013. Her work was exhibited internationally in galeries, artist-run spaces, museums and public places. She has presented her pluridisciplinary practice in international places such as the Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY), Central Park with NYC Arts in Parks (New York, NY), Pace Gallery for Torkwase Dyson’s Pace Live pluridisciplinary perfomances (Pace Gallery, New York, NY / London, UK), La Fondation Fiminco for Jeune Création (Romainville, FR), the General Consulates Greece and of France in New York (New York, NY), Grand Palais (Bern, CH), Manifesta biennale in Marseille (Aix-En-Provence, FR), Le Port des créateurs (Toulon, FR), Darling Greene curated space at ChaSaMa Gallery (NY), Kunsthalle (Detroit, US), Shim gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Art Helix Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Odetta Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), La Manufacture (Roubaix, FR),Les Journées Nationales de l’Architecture (Ivry-Sur-Seine / Le Mans, FR) Journées Européennes du Patrimoine pour Marseille Provence Capitale Européenne de la Culture (Marseille, FR), L’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans (Le Mans, FR). Her permanent public artworks are installed in Fontenay-Sous-Bois and Drancy and part of the collections of Fontenay-Sous-Bois, Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis, le CNAP (Collection Nationale d’Art Plastique) alongside private collections internationally. Ha was awarded with le Prix de la Folie Numérique (Jeune Création + La Folie Numérique, Parc de la Villette) and residency, she curated Entre Corps & Oeuvres avec La Collection d’Art Contemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis et Citoyenneté Jeunesse in le collège Corot, Le Raincy, Invitation Personnelle at the Consulat Général de France à New York.