Born in Algiers and raised in Paris, Sounia Khadraoui is a curatorial researcher working at the intersection of visual culture, representation, and decolonial inquiry. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a Master’s degree in Research Communication. A communications practitioner by training, she is reorienting her practice toward curatorial research and exhibition development, with a focus on questions of hybridity, cultural translation, and diasporic artistic practices.

Sounia is currently completing a second Master’s degree in Religious Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her research examines religious imagery, symbolism, and visual representation across transregional traditions, including studies on the construction of yogic imagery during the Mughal Empire. Her broader scholarly inquiry includes research on the instrumentalization of Ma Kālī under British rule in West Bengal, a project informed by postcolonial frameworks engaging Homi K. Bhabha’s theories of hybridity and mimicry alongside Frantz Fanon’s analysis of power, identity, and resistance. This work garnered academic distinction and was supported by research funding to further develop her study of religious symbolism, political interpretation, and visual representation within colonial contexts.

Her work is informed by her French-Algerian background and sustained engagement with postcolonial thought, reflecting a practice grounded in critical interpretation, narrative construction, and the reframing of dominant representational frameworks.