Oussama Tabti studied Fine Arts at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Algiers, and has a Masters in Fine Arts from the École Supérieure d'Art, Aix-en-Provence, and a post-graduate degree from Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Using the language of installation (installation, sound and video) and performance, Tabti focuses on the limits and prejudices that drive cultures apart. Critical of the hermetic geopolitics that reinforce the differences and abuses of power, in his work Tabti analyses a world made up of impassable borders and cultures closed in on themselves. The terrible educational system in which he was brought up, the fear of the outsider and of difference, political censorship and the prejudices that are still alive today, are at the core of his projects, together with the visible and invisible norms governing language.

Solo exhibitions include Institut Français, Oran (2013), La Baignoire d'Algiers, Algeria (2017), and Moussem Nomadic Art Centre, Brussels (2017). He has taken part in the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje, Macedonia (2009), Dak'Art Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2012), Mediterranea, Ancona (2013), Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe Contemporain, Paris (2017), Biennale Internationale de Casablanca (2018), and Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge (2019/2021). In 2019, he represented Algeria at the Venice Biennale. His work is included in the collections of GLUON Platform for Art, Science and Technology; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France; and MACBA, Barcelona.