Kenza Ben Thami

Statement

A multidisciplinary visual artist born in Montréal of Moroccan heritage, I develop a practice rooted in memory, identities and cultural hybridity. Through varied forms, I create works that question erasure, transformation and the passages between worlds — between the visible and the invisible, roots and the reinvention of identity.

Biography

Born in Montréal of Moroccan heritage, Kenza Ben Thami is a visual artist and photographer. A graduate of the Bachelor’s program in Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she is now pursuing a Master’s in Visual and Media Arts there. Her practice — painting, installation, textile, objects, image transfer, printmaking and photography — explores memory, identities and cultural hybridity.

A member of UQAM’s Laboratoire d’art et de recherche décoloniaux (LabARD), she has shown her work at the Galerie de l’UQAM, Galerie POPOP, the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier and Art Mûr. In 2025, she curated the exhibition Souviens-toi de nous, quand tu regardes and gave the talk “Ni l’un, ni l’autre” at the symposium Espaces diasporiques : résistances et transformations décoloniales.