Lydia Ourahmane

Lydia Ourahmane (b. 1992 Saïda, Algeria) lives in London and works between the UK and Algeria. She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London and her artistic practice spans new media, video, public interventions, lecture-performance, sculptures and found objects. Ourahmane’s work explores youth and transitional existences, surveillance and complex social and political structures. She has presented works at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and World Museum, Liverpool, John Jones Project Space, London Delfina Foundation, London, Ellis King Gallery, Dublin among others. Her work will be included in the group exhibition Territoires Arabes at Constantine Capital of Arab Culture 2015 and group exhibition Natural Instincts at the Espace Arlaud in Lausanne, Switzerland - curated by Samuel Leuenberger. Ourahmane was awarded The Nicholas and Andrei Tooth Travelling Scholarship 2014.

In 2016, she was one of the participating artists in A.i.R. Dubai, an initiative by Art Dubai in partnership with Tashkeel and the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority,