Yasmine Hadni | Artist

Yasmine Hadni is born in 1992 in Rabat, Morocco. Currently based in Casablanca, she received her art education across two continents, first earning a National Art Diploma from the Villa Arson in Nice, and later pursuing her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she obtained a Master of Fine Arts.

Although painting lies at the core of her practice, Yasmine Hadni incorporates a variety of media—including video, drawing, sound, and printmaking—within a transdisciplinary approach.

In 2017, her solo exhibition Back to the Roots at the Galerie Banque Populaire in Rabat highlighted her interest in family photo archives as a narrative and aesthetic starting point. She recontextualizes archival images through painted compositions that blend memory and fiction, personal introspection and social commentary, as well as cinematic and painterly references.

Her work, exhibited in venues such as the Artorium and at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, explores the emotional and social dynamics within Moroccan bourgeois families. Yasmine Hadni offers a complex and nuanced investigation of the human relationships that shape these familial spheres, through compositions that are both poetic and filled with ambiguity. Childhood emerges as a central lens, used as a recurring conceptual tool.

In 2024, she was awarded second place in the Mustaqbal Prize by the TGCC Foundation, a major distinction within the Moroccan art scene. This recognition led her to join the African Arty gallery the same year, cementing her position as one of the most promising emerging voices.