Nathalie Muchamad

Nathalie Muchamad is a French visual artist, born in Nouméa, New Caledonia. She now lives and works in Mayotte, a French territory in the Comoros archipelago.

Using textiles, smell, video, drawing, text, and installation as her mediums, Nathalie Muchamad explores the notion of multiplicity in a connected and multipolar world. Her work focuses on the role of the European slave trade in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and her family history marked by displacement linked to colonisation and contract labour on coffee plantations.

She received an honourable mention from the Climavore organisation for the Food Action Award 2025 for her research project on breadfruit in collaboration with the Food Art Research Network, an international network of artists involved in the political and aesthetic issues of food. Her work has also been presented at THAILAND Biennal, curated by David Teh and Arin Rungjang; LASALLE Singapore A taste of Justice in 2025; at the Asian Art Biennial 2024 How to Hold Your Breath (Taiwan); at the Busan Biennale 2024 Seeing in the Dark (South Korea); at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire (India).