Mohamed Bourouissa (born 1978) is an Algeria-born French photographer, based in Paris. In 2020 Bourouissa won the

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and The Photographers' Gallery to a photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium i ...

. His work is held in the collection of the

Maison européenne de la photographie The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP; European house of photography), located in the historic heart of Paris, is a center for contemporary photographic art opened in February 1996. Location and activities The Hotel Henault de Cantobre, ...

, Paris.

Early life

Bourouissa was born in

Blida Blida ( ar, البليدة; Berber languages, Tamazight: Leblida) is a city in Algeria. It is the capital of Blida Province, and it is located about 45 km south-west of Algiers, the national capital. The name ''Blida'', i.e. ''bulaydah'' ...

, Algeria. He moved with his family to France when he was five years old and grew up in the suburbs of Paris.

Publications

*''Mohamed Bourouissa''. Paris: Kamel Mennour, 2017. . With texts by Marc Donnadieu, Anna Dezeuze, Amanda Hunt, and Michael Nairn, and a transcript of a conversation between Bourouissa and

Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lived in New York City and Munich. In 2014, he was ranked 24 in the ''ArtReview'' list of the 100 m ...

. In English and French. Exhibition catalogue. *''Périphérique''. London: Loose Joints, 2021. With essays in English and French by Taous R. Dahmani and Clément Chéroux. .

Exhibitions

*''Urban Riders'',

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (, Paris' Museum of Modern Art) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, and Henri ...

, Paris, 2018 *''Free Trade'', in a Monoprix supermarket,

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

, Arles, France, 2019. Included work from ''Périphérique'', ''Shoplifters'', and ''Nous Sommes Halles''. *

The Photographers' Gallery The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography. It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established in ...

, London, 2019/2020, as part of the

Awards

*2012: Shortlisted,

Prix Pictet The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its ...

, for ''Périphérique'' *2018: Shortlisted,

Marcel Duchamp Prize The Marcel Duchamp Prize (in French : ''Prix Marcel Duchamp'') is an annual award given to a young artist by the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français (ADIAF). The winner receives €35,000 personally and up to €30,000 ...

, France *2020: Winner,

2020, an award of £30,000, for his exhibition ''Free Trade'' at

. The other nominations were

Clare Strand Clare Strand (born 1973) is a British conceptual photographer based in Brighton and Hove in the UK. She makes, as David Campany puts it, "black-and-white photographs that would be equally at home in an art gallery, the offices of a scientific in ...

, Anton Kusters, and Mark Neville.

Collections

Bourouissa's work is held in the following permanent collection: *

, Paris

References

External links

Bourouissa at Kamel Mennour gallery
21st-century French photographers French people of Algerian descent People from Blida 1978 births Living people French contemporary artists Algerian contemporary artists {{Photographer-stub