Hicham Khalidi is currently the director of the Jan Van Eyck Academie.

Prior to this, he was an associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations (Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette) in Paris. In this capacity, he was involved in commissioning work in the disciplines of fine art, design and fashion. In the period 2013–15, he was responsible for programming exhibitions and the Artefact Festival at the STUK House for Dance, Image and Sound in Leuven. From 2003 to 2011 he was the artistic and general director of TAG, institute for contemporary art and music in The Hague. Khalidi was the curator of the ACT II group exhibition in the Beirut Sharjah Biennial in 2017, served as a cultural attaché to the Biennale of Sydney in 2016, and was chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014.

Yuri Pattison's work explores the multiple relationships between visual cultures, space, communication technologies and the circulation of information.

The artist covers the various media often juxtaposed or dispersed, uses data and metadata, along with a mixture of factual materials, archival sources and historical fragments.

Solo exhibitions include context, collapse, mother's tankstation project, London; Trusted Traveller, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (both 2017) and user, space, Chisenhale Gallery (2016).

Group exhibitions include The Center Cannot Hold, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, The Dutch Savannah, Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Museum De Domijnen; Territories of Complicity, transmediale 2018 face value, HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (all 2018); The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, Bonner Kunstverein; The Everywhere Studio, ICA Miami; STILL HUMAN, Rubell Family Collection/ Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami; and Extra Bodies, Migros Museum, Zurich (all 2017); British Art Show 8 (touring 2015-2017); Transparencies, Bielefelder Kunstverein / Kunstverein Nürnberg, The Weight of Data, Tate Britain (2015).

Yuri Pattison was the recipient of the 2016 Frieze Artist Award.