One of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists, her work investigates various historical events in a political context, such as the history of the cotton trade, the salt trade and the life of Egyptian Greek poet Constantine P.
[1] Her work frequently takes the form of vast installations composed of painted figures that are arranged to fill rooms.
[2] After a showing at the 2012 edition of Documenta, Boghiguian won the Golden Lion for her Armenian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
[1] In 2017, she had solo exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli and Index—The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.
[5] In 2023, Boghiguian was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, granted by the Museum Ludwig.