Ziad Antar is a artist who lives in Saida, in Lebanon, and in Paris. He was a resident at the Pavillon du Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, in 2003, as well as in the La Seine programme (École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris). He has taken part in many shows, in particular at the Centre Pompidou (2007), at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2009), at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Amirates (2009), at the Taipei Biennial in Taiwan (2009) and at the Witte de With museum in Rotterdam (2010).