Contact:
Maryamtouzani@icloud.com
Bio:
MAryam Touzani, born in 1997 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is a image based artist whose work explores themes of diaspora, identity, and existential rootlessness. Navigating her Dutch and Moroccan Amazigh heritage, she examines the spaces where cultures overlap, conflict, and fracture, uncovering hidden narratives of belonging and erasure. Her practice uses photography and archival material to question how histories are preserved or silenced, while creating new visual languages that embrace absence, resilience, and survival.
In 2023, Touzani graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation during Rencontres d’Arles (2024), and she has been selected as a FOAM Talent for 2024–2025.
Since 2024, Touzani has also been working as a picture editor at the Dutch daily newspaper NRC, an experience that has sharpened her eye for visual storytelling and deepened her interest in the editorial power of images — how they can both reinforce and resist dominant narratives.
Contact:
Maryamtouzani@icloud.com
Exhibitions
2025
Foam Talent 2024-2025, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, (Frankfurt,Germany)
Arles x Bordeauxs, Fotohaus Hors Les Murs Ausser Cimetière de la Chartreuse, (Bordeaux, France)
2024
Wild summer of art, Group show, Brutus (Rotterdam, NL)
Group Exhibition at Les Rencontres: the Foundation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz: July (Arles France)
FOAM: Talent February (Amsterdam, NL)
2023
PCP’s Collective: The Perth Centre for Photography December(Perth, Australia)
Art The Hague October (The Hague, NL)
ARTY PARTY: PHOTOGRAPHY GRADUATES Melkweg, Septemver(Amsterdam, NL)
Graduation show Royal Academy of Art, The Hague july 2023
2022
‘Unfolding territories’ - Group Exhbition, The Grey Space in The Middle (The Hague, NL)
‘Claim Your Space’ - Alien-Mag, NS16 (Tilburg, NL)
Publishing
2023
Maktub [Dummy]
2022
Argania, Photobook, self-published (Edition of 20)
2021
I tried to walk seven times to the east, self-published
Awards
Maktub Dummy Award 2024, (Cologne Germany)
Features
Der Greif Artist blog
Fisheye Magazine
Photo31
FOAM Talent Magazine #65
Der Greif Guest Room: “Poetics of Counter-Archives”
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Art-s Cool
Den Haag cenrtaal
Rabobank magazine
Alien-mag
Symposiums/Lectures
2024
Discussion "Caught Up in Distinct Narration" avec Institute Contemporary & Allianz.
Pakhuis de Zwijger: Fotokroniek Young talents presented
2023
Lecture st.joost , Breda
Guest Lecture Royal academy of Arts, The hague
2021
The Undisciplining Photography - Photography and Society and Nederlands Foto museum