Iman Issa is a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and she lives and works between Berlin and Vienna. Her work, rooted in philosophical inquiry, transforms objects and text into poetic juxtapositions that question how knowledge and history are constructed.

She has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; 21er Haus, Vienna; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Pérez Art Museum Miami; M HKA, Antwerp; Tensta Konsthall, Spanga; New Museum, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; as well as the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019), the 12th Sharjah Biennial, and the 8th Berlin Biennial. Her solo exhibitions include Heritage Studies at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Her works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others