Anida Yoeu Ali (1974, Battambang, Cambodia) lives in Seattle, Washington, and works between the Asia-Pacific and the the USA. Ali is an artist, educator and global agitator. Her multi-disciplinary practices include performance, installation, videos, images, public encounters and political agitation. She is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Utilising an interdisciplinary approach to art-making, Ali’s installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. Ali’s works have been exhibited widely in including installations and performances at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Palais de Tokyo, and the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.  In 2014, Ali won the top prize of the Sovereign Art Prize, Hong Kong. Ali earned her B.F.A. from University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and an M.F.A. from School of the Art Institute Chicago. She is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington Bothell where she teaches art, performance and global studies courses. Ali resides in Tacoma, Washington and spends much of her time traveling and working between the Asia-Pacific region and the USA.