Linda Dounia is a Senegalese Lebanese artist and designer.

She specializes in visual design, interaction design, and design research. She is most interested in how technology can adequately represent and empower people, no matter who they are. She has managed design teams that leverage the power of play, co-creation, and prototyping with communities to better understand systemic inequality, and to make technologymore accessible and useful to them.

In 2023, Linda was recognized on the TIMEA100 list of most influential people in AI for her work on speculative archiving — building AI models that help us remember what is lost. In 2024, she was also the recipient of Mozilla’s RISE25 award for her work in AI.


linda.rebeiz@gmail.com

    ABOUT

    WORK

    WORK EXPERIENCE— 2014 TO 2025

    ARTIST
        SELF-EMPLOYED 
    03.2021 - NOW

    EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
       ZEERA (FORMERLY REAL)
    03.2021 - 10.2021

    IINTERACTION DESIGN LEAD 
       IDEO.ORG
    08.2020 - 02.2021

    SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER
       IDEO.ORG
    01.2019 - 07.2020
    PRODUCT & LEARNING LEAD 
        ENEZA
    03.2018 - 12.2018

    UX RESEARCHER  
        AFRICAN LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY 
    01.2017 - 12.2017

    LEARNING EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
        AFRICAN LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY 
    01.2015 - 12.2016

    ASSOCIATE
       DALBERG
    06.2013 - 12.2013

    ASSOCIATE  
        GOOGLE 
    01.14 – 01.15



    SELECTED CLIENTS— 2018 TO 2025

    ALIGHT (FORMERLY AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE)
    ANO CULTURAL INSTITUTE
    THE ATLANTIC X GOOGLE
    BILLION GIRLS COLAB
    CHANEL’S 19M
    THE EASTERN AFRICA GRAIN COUNCIL
    FERAL FILE
    THE FLIP
    FP2030
    THE GATES FOUNDATION
    GHANA’S MUSEUM BOARD
    THE HILTON FOUNDATION
    IBM
    MOZILLA x SKILLSHARE
    MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES
    ONE ACRE FUND
    OPENIDEO
    PREVENTIVE CARE INTERNATIONAL
    THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
    SAFRAN
    SUPERRARE
    VLISCO




    EXHIBITIONS
    — 2021 - 2025

               2025
    • Le Monde Selon l’IA, Jeu de Paume, Paris
    • Augmented Intelligence, Christie’s, New York
    • AI Action Summit: L’Elysée’s Official Curation, Grand Palais, Paris
    • The Light Within, United Nations Foundation + ArtRepublic, New York

      2024

    • World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project, California African American Museum, PST ART, Los Angeles
    • The Wake/Xall Wi, Dak’art Biennale Special Project, Something Art, Dakar
    • Desert Threads: Weaving Tradition and Technology, Trame, Marfa
    • True/False, KIKK Festival Special Project, Namur
    • Ce qui nous rassemble: langues, languages, et imaginaires, Sommet de la Francophonie, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris
    • Once Upon A Garden: The Complete Series, Fellowship, Online
    • Sunu Diggante, La Galerie Du 19m, Dakar
    • Art on Stax: Tongues, Ledger, Online
    • Once Upon A Flower, The Digital Art Mile, Cinello, Basel
    • The Awakening is Afropolitan, Dak’art Biennale OFF, Vlisco, Dakar
    • Faux Letters, Avant Arte, Online
    • Beyond AI: Resistance & Coexistence, M.Bassy, Hamburg
    • Flore Perdue, Bright Moments, Paris
    • Creating Connections: Digital Art For Connectivity, UNICEF + Giga + Christie’s, Online
    • SMALL V01CE, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles

      2023

    • MOMA Postcard: The First 15, Museum Of Modern Art, Online
    • Eroding Memories, Biennal Sur, Institut Francais Au Senegal, Dakar
    • Cartography Of The Soul, Multidisciplinary Association for
    • Psychedelic Studies + Christie’s, New York
    • Liminal Space, Unit London, Online
    • Tomorrow X Tomorrow, Larsen Warner Galery, Stockholm
    • Female Future Forward, Art Dubai, Afrofutourism, Dubai
    • Excavating Ex Machina, Frieze, Lume Studios, New York
    • Proof Of People, Vertical + Refraction, New York
    • In/Visible, Feral File, Online
    • Computational Realism, Vertical, New York

      2022

    • About Now #2, Cecile Fakhoury Gallery, Abidjan
    • Femgen, Miami Art Week, Vertical, Miami
    • Bauhaus’ Puzzle, Mono, Tunis
    • Future Of Cities, Miami Art Week, Refraction, Miami
    • Tales Of Togethernes, KIKK Festival, Namur
    • Guy Gi, Partcours, Yennenga Center + Alt Del, Dakar
    • Once Upon A Garden, ARTXLAGOS Special Project, Lagos
    • In Touch, Tezos Foundation X Vertical, Berlin
    • Spannungsbogen, Quantum Gallery, Los Angeles
    • Sparrows Do Not Fear The Sun, Iconic + White House Historical Association, Online

      2021

    • The Digital Roots, Vertical + Lume Studios, New York
    • 22 For 2022, Artsy Online
    • Sacred Roots, Art Dubai, Cyber Baat, Dubai
    • Humans + Machines, Miami Art Week, Tezos Foundation, Miami
    • Reloading, ARTXLAGOS, Lagos
    • Biennal, Museum Of Newfangled Art, New York


    SELECTED FEATURES — 2021 - 2025

    Neo Botanica – An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora
       VETRO

    The Art of Intelligence
        THE ATLANTIC

    AI tools paint a blurry picture of our current reality – so what do these biases mean for our future?
        IT’S NICE THAT 

    Time 100 AI: Linda Dounia Rebeiz
        TIME 

    Artists Who Were Using Artificial Intelligence Before ChatGPT
        ARTSY 

    Linda Dounia on Memory Machines
        LE RANDOM

    Exploring small AI and shifting realities
        AIxDESIGN 

    Even By Design
       FIGMA / CONFIG

    Regaining power over AI
         SORBONNE UNIVERSITY x MICROSOFT RESEARCH   

    From Ink to Algorithms
        ARTXCODE JOURNAL

    Amplifying the self   
        AVANT ARTE INSIGHTS

    Conversational Technologies
        LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ART 

    The Future Of Living
    Bozar x EUNIC Brussels 

    Ghana appoints experts to draw up 'radical' new plan for museums and monuments
        THE ART NEWSPAPER