Performance Installation / Durational / 2010
Conceived and Performed by Anida Yoeu Ali




















Very pleased to report that the Cambodian artist Anida Yoeu Ali has agreed to join us as part of our MfA International Advisory Panel. Our panel plays an important role in the life of the MfA through advice, critical comment and (when finances permit) joining us to run classes or workshops. Anida will join Hanspeter Amman and Gerard Mermoz.

"Anida Yoeu Ali is an artist whose works span performance, installation, video, poetry, public encounters, and political agitation. She is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. After residing for over three decades outside of Cambodia, Ali returned to work in Phnom Penh as part of her 2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to artmaking, her installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. Her pioneering work with the critically acclaimed group “I Was Born With Two Tongues (1998-2003)” is archived with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program. Her artistic work has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Anida earned her B.F.A. from University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and an M.F.A. from School of the Art Institute Chicago. She is a collaborative partner with Studio Revolt, an independent artist run media lab in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where she currently resides."

For more information visit the website www.studio-revolt.com