collab. Yasmina Hilal

Yasmina Hilal (b.1996, Lebanon) is a visual artist and photographer whose practice moves fluidly between image making, experimentation, and emotional storytelling.

She holds a BA in Visual Media Arts, with a minor in Photography, from Emerson College in the United States. During her studies, she developed a deep interest in alternative darkroom processes, exploring unconventional
approaches to scanning, printing, and manipulating images. These investigations continue to shape her work, inviting viewers to pause, linger, and engage with its visual and emotional layers as they move between stillness and motion, the intimate and the expansive.

Exhibitions & Awards

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2023
I See Me in You, Zalfa Halabi Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

Seeing Double, Zalfa Halabi Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

 

2022
Trial and Error, Zalfa Halabi Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2026
Fabric of Time – Chapter 2, Difaf Gallery in collaboration with no/mad utopia, Beirut, Lebanon

What Touches the Scalp is Close to the Bone, curated by Christina Shoucair, organized by Hunna Art × Hayaty Diaries, Paris, France

Moments for Lebanon — Fragments of Memorabilia, Galerie Au Roi, Paris, France

 

2025

Middle East Archive, presented during Paris Photo, Paris, France

Material Conversations, curated by Hanna Ter Meulen, Dazed Club × Mason & Fifth, London, UK
Culminating exhibition of the Dazed Club × Mason & Fifth Artist Residency

 

2024
The Material Woman, Soho Revue, London, UK

Hope in an Age of Dystopia, Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

 

2022
Dear Moon, Zalfa Halabi Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

Pop Up Exhibition, 389 La Boutique, Paris, France

The Cutting Studios Annual Exhibition, Doha, Qatar

 

2021
The Chemistry of Feeling, Gulf Photo Plus / Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

A Complex Embodiment, Los Angeles, USA

 

2018
Absolut Vodka × Beirut Design Week — Civil Love, Beirut, Lebanon

 

 

ART FAIRS

 

2023
MENART Fair, presented by Zalfa Halabi Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

RESIDENCIES

 

2025
Dazed Club × Mason & Fifth Artist Residency, London, UK
Selected from more than 800 applicants; one of eight international artists selected for the two-month residency.

 

2025
Mediterrani Expandit, Konvent Puntzero, Catalonia, Spain
Two-week residency bringing together ten artists from Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia and Algeria to develop photographic and visual projects around the Mediterranean. Hilal developed 99 / ٩٩, a project exploring prayer beads, meditation, spirituality and memory.

 

 

BIENNALE PROGRAMME

 

2025
Diriyah Biennale Foundation Programme, Workshop leader, Saudi Arabia

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

 

 

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

 

2026
Canvas : Skin Deep: Group Show with Hunna Art and Hayaty Diaries in Paris, by Sarah Moroz

The Sandy Times : Overcoming Nightmares Of Life. Interview With Artist Yasmina Hilal, by Alexandra Mansilla

 

2024
1854 Photography : For Yasmina Hilal, Photography Is Just One Piece of the Puzzle, by Dalia Al-Dujaili

 

2023
GQ Middle East : The Captivating Artistry of Yasmina Hilal’s “I See Me in You” Exhibition

L’Orient-Le Jour : Couper, coller, construire : le si beau photomontage de Yasmina Hilal, by Danny Mallat

 

2021
It’s Nice That : Beirut-Born Yasmina Hilal Organically Creates Mixed Media Collages – Cutting, Gluing and Sewing Away from Digital Manipulation, by Dalia Al-Dujaili

 

2019
Konbini : Rencontre : Entre Photo et Collage, Yasmina Hilal Expérimente à l’infini, by Lise Lanot

 

2018
Mille World : Yasmina Hilal is the 21-year-old switching up the game