Shani Ha (1987, Algerian, French) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her sculptures, performances, public art, photography, drawings and care practice investigate the somatic fragility of empathy, intimacy, otherness, and humanity at large. The experience of art is made interactive, reflexive and familiar through mouvement, perception and relation. 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.
Ha works in Paris (Seine-Saint-Denis) and New York (Brooklyn) since 2013. She holds a Master in Fine Arts (DNSEP) de l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans and a Diplôme Universitaire (DU) Art&Santé de la Faculté de médecine et maïeutique Lyon 1.
She exhibited internationally in galeries, artist-run spaces, museums and public place, 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), Fondation Fiminco, Jeune Création (Romainville, FR), 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 ChaSaMa Gallery (NY), Kunsthalle (Detroit, US), Art Helix Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), La Manufacture (Roubaix, FR), les Journées Nationales de l’Architecture (Ivry-Sur-Seine / Le Mans, FR), les Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Marseille Provence Capitale Européenne de la Culture (Marseille, FR). Her public artwork installed in Fontenay-Sous-Bois and Seine-Saint-Denis. is part of the collections of the city of Fontenay-Sous-Bois, Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis, le CNAP (Collection Nationale d’Art Plastique) and private collections. She was awarded with the prix de la folie numérique (jeune création + la folie numérique, résidence au parc de la villette) and curated entre corps & oeuvres, collection d’art aontemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis et citoyenneté jeunesse, collège Corot, le Raincy, France; invitation personnelle; consulat général de France, New York; photocopains photocopines, Shim Parlor, New York.