Minia Biabiany

Born in 1988. She works and lives in Guadeloupe.

Minia Biabiany’s work explores Caribbean narratives, decolonization processes, and the connections between language, body, and territory, drawing on a practice that combines installations, videos, and pedagogy.

Her work is rooted in a reflection on perception and displacement, in which language and the body become vehicles for transmission. Drawing on poetry and sensorial experience, she creates spaces where history and ancestral knowledge engage in dialogue with the present.

Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, notably at the São Paulo Biennial, the Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, Brazil, 2025), Musarth (Guadeloupe, France, 2025), KunstMeran (Merano, Italy, 2025), Frac Poitou-Charentes (Angoulême, France, 2025), WIELS (Brussels, Belgium, 2025), the Mercosur Biennial, Semillero Caribe x Persona Curada (ENSAD, Paris, France, 2025), Dlo a rasin at James Madison University (Virginia, United States, 2024), TEOR/éTica (San José, Costa Rica, 2023), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 2022), La Verrière (Brussels, Belgium, 2020), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., United States, 2019), Mémorial ACTe (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France, 2017), the 10th Berlin Biennale, Centro León (Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, 2018), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2016), as well as Cráter Invertido (Mexico City, Mexico, 2016) and SIGNAL Centre for Contemporary Art (Malmö, Sweden, 2016).

Her works are currently on view at Musarth in Guadeloupe. She will also take part, in June, in an exhibition at the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, followed by another group exhibition at the Harvard Alain Locke Gallery of African and African American Art beginning in September.

In 2016, she initiated the collective project Semillero Caribe in Mexico City and continues her pedagogical research through Doukou, an experimental platform exploring the concepts of Caribbean authors through the body and sensory experience.

She was also awarded the Sciences Po Contemporary Art Prize in 2019.

Her works are included in numerous collections, notably those of MAC Martinique, Frac Pays de la Loire, Frac Grand Large, Frac Bretagne, Centro León, the Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Kadist, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, as well as Frac Île-de-France, Frac Lorraine and Fac Guadeloupe.