Houda Terjuman, a Syrian/Swiss/Moroccan artist based in Barcelona, explores themes of identity, displacement, and the search for stability through her surrealist-inspired paintings and floating sculptures. Her work, often featuring motifs like uprooted trees and homely furniture, reflects her multicultural experiences and the complex, de-territorialized world we live in. Houda Terjuman's artistic practice is deeply shaped by her hybrid migrant identity, a condition often associated with second-generation migrants. With a Syrian father, a Swiss mother, and having been born in Morocco, she identifies as African. The transient nature of both her personal and artistic evolution has opened up compelling ways to engage with representation in art. As a first-generation migrant, Terjuman’s father often emphasized the necessity of integration, asserting that there was no safety net. However, rather than adopting the concept of assimilation, she embraced hybridity—seeing it as a rich intersection of backgrounds, voices, and belongings. Despite an enduring sense of foreignness and potential displacement, Terjuman has gained immense strength from the power of mobility and the freedom derived from multiple roots, languages, and cultures. It is precisely within the delicate space between the promise of a new life in a new place and the nostalgia and loss inherent in migration that her practice is situated. Through this lens, her work explores feelings of floating freedom alongside fear and insecurity.Her sculptures and paintings serve as small, familiar objects that weave narratives. These objects act as carriers of hope and bridges between cultures. An empty chair symbolizes what has been left behind, maintaining a connection to one’s roots. A solitary boat embodies hope, while a floating bridge invites the viewer to forge connections and cultivate empathy toward the unknown. Solo show2024/2025 | Vetrina Piazza del Duomo Pietrasanta 2025 | West Palm Beach Salon 2024 | Echos de Terres Evanescentes, African Arty Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco2023 | "Glide through evanescent lands" Berlin Germany Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery2022 | "When hope smells like petrichor" Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK2020 | Galerie GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco2019 | Galerie Siniya 28 Untold stories, Marrakech, Morocco2019 | Artistic research project "Because these wings are no longer wings to fly" with ArtsCabinet, London, UK2019 | Art Research and Migration Workshop- Goldsmiths College, London, UK2018 | Performance Art live at l’Institut du Monde Arabe during la Nuit Blanche "un œil ouvertsur le monde arabe" with the collaboration of creative Paris2018 | Casa Arabenovember, Madrid, Spain2018 | Collaboration with Alex Hammersly and Hollandridge Group, London, UK2013 | Voice Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco2011 | Galerie d'art Espace Expressions CDG, Rabat, Morocco Collections| SUSU Collection| The Bunker Artspace Museum| Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France| Musée d’Art Contemporain Mohammed VI, Rabat, Morocco| Foundation Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy Group show2024 | Not a Museum, Lisbonne2023 | Contemporary dilemmas eternal displacements Rofa projects, USA Potomac2022 | Group show Orlando museum of art "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From"2022 | Re-Composing Art Exhibition Palazzo Bembo Venice2022 | "Don't ask me where I'm from" Aga Khan Museum Alberta Art gallery2022 | Touring exhibition Aga Khan Museum Imago Mundi at the Alberta Art Gallery of Edmonton, Canada2021 | "Thinking out loud" Pulpo gallery Murnau am staffelsee, Germany2021 | Kristin Hjellegjerde at schloss goerne, Germany2021 | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery London "The Devil's on the detail2021 | Galerie Géraldine zberro, Paris, France2020 | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK2020 | Group exhibition "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From" Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada2019/2020 | Touring exhibition with the Aga Khan Museum and Imago Mundi " Hybridmigrant " Treviso Toronto Vancouver Houston Dallas , Paris London, Lisbon and Dubaï2019 | "Wondrous Worlds" Gallery Michael Haas Berlin Germany2019 | "Œuvres et recherches" galerie GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco2018 | Galerie 21, Geneva, Switzerland2018 | 15 September BLACK SPHINX II Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland2018 | GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco2018 | Primo Marella Gallery "La Sfinge Nera II" Milan Italy2016 | Exposition collective Musée Mohammed VI Rabat Morocco2016 | "Merchants of dreams" Brandts13 Denmark2016 | "Merchants of dreams" Viborg Kunsthal Denmark2015 | Musée Mohammed VI d’art contemporain, Rabat, Morocco2015 | "Luxury of dirt" Voice gallery, Marrakech, Morocco2015 | "Femmes et religion" Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc, Rabat, MoroccoArt Fairs2024 | Luxembourg Art week2024 | 1:54 African Art Fair London, represented by TAAH2024 | Arco Lisboa2023 | Menart Fair Palais Iena, Paris, France2023 | 1:54 Art Fair, London, UK 2023 | Art Dubaï2022 | Art Dubaï2021 | Art Miami - Art Winwood2020 | Intersect Chicago, USA2020 | SWAB Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain2020 | 1:54 African Contemporary Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco2019 | Art Nocturne Knocke Art Fair, Belgium2019 | Art Bodense, Dornbin, Austria2018 | VOLTA SHOW 14, Basel, Switzerland2017 | AKAA Art Fair, Paris, France2016 | 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK2016 | AKAA also known as Africa2015 | 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK2014 | ARTISSIMA Art Fair Turin