The Tunisian-French curator and writer has served as director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago since 2020, during which time she has curated exhibitions by artists including Aria Dean, Meriem Bennani, Ghislaine Leung, Lydia Ourahmane and Neïl Beloufa. She co-curated the acclaimed 2020 edition of the biennial ‘Made in LA’ at the Hammer Museum and the Huntington Library, which brought to wide public attention artists including Brandon Landers and Sabrina Tarasoff. Ben Salah has recently been chosen as the curator of the French pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, which will display the work of the French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada. Before joining the Renaissance Society, Ben Salah was editor-in-chief of Kaleidoscope magazine from 2016–20, and served as curator of special projects and public programs at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris from 2009–16.