Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952 to Palestinian parents and now lives and works in London and Berlin. Hatoum was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, and she has since held solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. Her work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Kunsthaus in Zürich, among others.