Myriam Ben Salah

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Myriam Ben Salah is a Tunisian curator based in Paris. [1] [2]

She became the editor-in-chief of Kaleidoscope Magazine in 2016. [3] Prior, she coordinated special projects and public programs at the Palais de Tokyo from 2009 to 2016. [3]

In 2017, Ben Salah curated I Heard You Laughing at the Gregor Staiger Gallery. [4] She was the curator of the 10th edition of the Abraaj Group Art Prize. [1] [5] Ben Salah curated a collection called The Pain of Others at the Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles in 2018. [6] She also edits the magazine F.A.Q. [4]

In April 2020, it was announced that Ben Salah would become the next executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. [7] [8]

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