Alia Ali (b. 1985, Austria) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multimedia artist whose work explores cultural binaries and confronts conflicted notions surrounding gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Working between language, photography, sculpture, video, and installation, Alia’s art addresses the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism, through projects that take pattern as their primary motif. Ali is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in political science and studio art, and the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied photography and media, and she is a Nikon Ambassador. Her work has integrated the permanent collections of The British Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP), the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), and the Princeton University Art Museum, among others. Her monument al-Falak was funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and now sits at the Arab American National Museum. Her work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Architectural Digest, and the Financial Times. Ali works and lives in and between New Orleans, Paris, Marrakech, and Jaipur.