Marwa Arsanios (1978, US) currently lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon. Her work has been exhibited internationally at amongst others the Venice Biennial, Future Generation Art Prize, Venice (2013); Home Works 5 and 6, Beirut, Lebanon (2013 and 2010); the Jerusalem Show, Jerusalem (2012); Art Dubai in the Bidoun Lounge Art Park, Dubai (2009); the Berlinale’s Forum Expanded, Berlin, (2010); and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Marwa Arsanios is a founding member of the artistic organization and project space 98weeks Research Project that focuses its research on a new topic every 98 weeks. She is one of the organizers of the travelling project Platform Translation. She won the Sharjah Art Foundation’s Production Programme grant in 2014, and the Pinchuk Future Generation special prize in 2012. She has been granted several residencies, including the three months residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht) in 2011.