Mona Hatoum has worked across a diverse range of media, including performance, video, photography, sculpture, installation and works on paper. Her work addresses issues of displacement, marginalisation, exclusion and systems of social and political control.
Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952. While on a short visit to London in 1975, the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War prevented her from returning home. She has lived in London ever since.
Recent solo exhibitions include a major survey organised by Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015) that toured to Tate Modern, London and KIASMA, Helsinki (2016), and a US survey at the Menil Collection, Houston (2017), travelling to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis (2018). In September 2022, Hatoum held three simultaneous solo exhibitions in Berlin: n.b.k., Georg Kolbe Museum and KINDL. An extensive solo exhibition was held at KAdE, Amersfoort (2025), and her work was paired with Giacometti’s at the Barbican, London (2025). In early 2026, she created a site-specific installation for the Cisterna building at Fondazione Prada.
International group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale (1995, 2005), Istanbul Biennial (1995, 2011), Documenta, Kassel (2002, 2017), Biennale of Sydney (2006), Sharjah Biennial (2007, 2023), and Taipei Biennial (2025).
