Zoulikha Bouabdellah graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts de Cergy-Pontoise in Paris in 2002. She has won several prizes, including the Prix Meurice for Contemporary Art, Paris, France in 2008 with her sculpture The Kiss, the inaugural Abraaj Capital Prize, Dubai, UAE in 2009 with her installation Walking on the Sky, Pisces, the Algerian Prize for young Algerian creation and the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs (AFAA – Cape Town, South Africa). She has been shown all over the world in fairs, institutions and biennales such as the Venice Biennial, Aichi Triennial, Bamako Biennial, Mead Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, MoCADA, and the Brooklyn Museum, and has works in a number of notable public and private collections.