Mario Merz Prize

Edition 1

Art

Lida Abdul

Lida Abdul (Kabul 1973) lives and works in Kabul and Los Angeles

She was the first Afghan artist to represent her country at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Her work has been shown in several biennials and International art exhibitions such as, San Paulo Biennial 2006, Gwangju Biennial 2006, Moscow Biennial 2007, Sharjah Biennial 2007 and dOCUMENTA XIII in 2012.