Mounira Al Solh (b.1978, Beirut, Lebanon) studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut, and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she was also resident at the Rijksakademie between 2006 and 2008. Al Solh's practices stretch across several mediums including videos, installations, photo-collages, paintings, and performances. Her work is set out to interrogate themes encompassing the social and the personal, where the autobiographical becomes universal. Drawing on various disciplines within the social sciences, Al Solh's art aspires to ask 'large questions in small places', operating according to Ginzburg's notion of microhistory. As the editor of NOA magazine (with Fadi Tofeili, among others), and NOA language school (with Angela Serino), Al Solh examines and explores topics such as treason, arrest, language, and schizophrenia in dialogue with artists and writers.

Her work has been displayed in solo exhibitions at Alt art space, Istanbul, Turkey (2016); Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (2014); at Kunsthalle Lisbon, Portugal (2014); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V., Berlin, Germany (2014); Art in General, New York (2012) as well as in group shows at Everything in Nature has a Lyrical Essence, a tragic fate, a comic existence, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2016); Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA The New Museum, New York (2014); Neighbors, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey (2013) Haus Der Kunst, Munich (2010); Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010); The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai (2010); Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2011); Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain (2010); the Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; and the 11th International Istanbul Biennial in 2009. Her video Rawane's Song received the 2007 jury prize at VideoBrasil. Her video installation As If I Don't Fit There was part of the first Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007.