Nadia Benbouta (born 21 January 1970) is an Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. Born in

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

, she was educated at the and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Her art combines seemingly unrelated elements: found images from advertising, children's films and other sources, comic strip art, flags, weapons and decorative designs. Her work has been displayed in solo shows in France, Germany and the Ukraine. She has participated in group exhibitions in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Germany, Norway, Greece, Algeria and New York City. Benbouta received the Prix Albéric Rocheron in 1998 and the Prix Fenêtre des Arts Européens awarded by the

Sprengel Museum Sprengel Museum is a museum of modern art in Hanover, Lower Saxony, holding one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building situated adjacent to the Masch Lake (german: Maschsee) approximately south ...

in Hanover in 1999. Her work is held in the collections of the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

, the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the and the town of Bobigny.

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