Shani Ha is a French-Algerian 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 movements, sensoriality and shared moments.
Shani Ha (b.1987) 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). Ha exhibited internationally in galeries, artist-run spaces, museums and public places. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Art and Design (New York, US), Central Park with NYC Arts in Parks (New York, US), Pace Gallery for Torkwase Dyson’s Pace Live perfomances (New York,US and London, UK), La Fondation Fiminco for Jeune Création (Romainville, FR), the General Consulates of France and Greece in New York (New York, US), Grand Palais (Berne, CH), Manifesta biennale in Marseille (Aix-En-Provence, FR), Darling Greene curated space at ChaSaMa Gallery (NY), Kunsthalle (Detroit, US), Shim gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Art Helix Gallery (Brooklyn, US), Odetta Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), La Manufacture (Roubaix, 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 in France. Her work is part of the CNAP collection and private collections internationally. Ha was awarded with le Prix de la Folie Numérique (Jeune Création + La Folie Numérique, Parc de la Villette); she curated Entre Corps & Oeuvres avec La Collection d’Art Contemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis et Citoyenneté Jeunesse in Le Raincy and Invitation Personnelle at the Consulat Général de France à New York for Occupy #3 in New York.