Abdelali Dahrouch is a conceptual media artist who lives in Los Angeles, and works between the U.S., France, and Morocco. Born in Tangier, and raised between Morocco and France, Dahrouch emigrated to the U.S. in 1984 to pursue multimedia art as a vehicle to address the political and social issues in which he was immersed as an activist and writer. His work engages transnational migration and U.S./European imperialism largely in relation to the Middle East and North Africa.

Dahrouch graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with a Masters of Fine Arts. He was a fellow in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York; the Cultural Exchange Station at Tabor in the Czech Republic; the Cimelice Castle in Cimelice, Czech Republic; and the Metamedia Center for the Arts in Plasy, Czech Republic. In November 2003, he was a Visiting Artist at Home Works II-2003: A Forum on Cultural Practices in Beirut, Lebanon organized by Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Society of Plastic Arts, a non-profit arts organization, funded by the Ford Foundation. He received an “Intra-nation” BANFF Residency Fellowship in Banff, Canada in Summer 2004.

Dahrouch has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Portland (OR), Los Angeles, Seville (Spain), Sophia (Bulgaria), and Tabor, Cimelice, Plasy and Prague (Czech Republic). His most recent solo exhibition entitled, Desert Sin, Revisited was on view from August to October 2003 at Montgomery Art Museum, Pomona College in Claremont, California. Other work has recently been exhibited at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Athens, Georgia; the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University in Orange, California; and Liquidation Total Art Space in Madrid, Spain. His upcoming shows will be at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery at California Polytechnic University in Pomona; The University of Alabama; The Puffin Room in New York; the University of California at Berkeley; Darat Al Funun Art Center, Amman, Jordan; and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.