Lalla Essaydi
Born in 1956 outside of Marrakech, Essaydi was raised in Morocco and moved to Saudi Arabia in her early 20s. Since 2001, she has lived in the U.S., first in Boston, where she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and now in New York. Essaydi's work is represented in a number of collections including the Williams College Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the North Carolina Museum of Art; the Neuberger Museum; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Louvre Museum, Paris.
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