Anahi Alviso-Marino is a political scientist focusing on visual arts and cultural production in the Arabian Peninsula. Grounded in research-creation, her current research examines monuments, public art and urban memory. She holds degrees from Complutense University Madrid (BA), Columbia University New York (MA), and a PhD from Sorbonne University-Paris 1 and University of Lausanne, where she proposed a political sociology of visual arts in Yemen.
She is a research associate at the French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula (CEFREPA, Kuwait) and at the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo, Jordan), and a coordinator member at the Global (De)Centre. Her research-creation contributions include exhibitions (Villa Vassilieff 2017, Palais de Tokyo 2018, CAP Kuwait 2025), films (Monumenting, 2024), and game-type protocols (Alserkal Arts Foundation 2022, CEFREPA 2023). She is currently finishing a monograph on art and politics in Yemen and between 2026-2028, she will be the research-creation lead at Al-'Ula Urban Observatory (CEFREPA/Villa Hegra).
