Ayla Hibri (b.1987 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a visual artist with a BA from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) followed by a degree in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). For the last decade Hibri has been in constant travel, shifting environments to maintain a continuum of displacement and discovery. Through the act of walking, exploring, and active observation, she has collected an expansive archive of visual data on the psychogeography of places and aspects of the human condition. These gather the shapes of universal truths which traverse the boundaries of the political and geographical.
She has published two books, A Palm Tree Bows To The Moon (2019- published by Kaph Books) and The Real Prince (2016- published by OODEE) and has exhibited widely in several galleries, institutions and festivals worldwide in Lebanon, France, Tunisia, Brazil, Jordan, Turkey, UAE, Greece and more. Her photographic series have also been featured in different publications including The Guardian, The Wire, Brownbook Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Kaleidoscope and more.