Hanifa Alizada is an artist born in 1989 in Afghanistan. She studied visual arts at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan, and began her photographic practice in 2010. She taught photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University, and was selected to represent South Asia in “Imagining our future together” art competition organized by the World Bank in 2012. In 2014, her work inspired the international art tour titled "1 in 3", to raise awareness against violence against women.

Her artistic work explores themes of identity, power, and marginalization, particularly in relation to Afghan women. She uses her own body as the main subject of her art to critique the instrumentalization of women's bodies in the Afghan context. Her works aim to deconstruct social and cultural norms that marginalize women and give voice to those who have been silenced.
Through her photographs and videos, Hanifa Alizada also addresses themes of exile, displacement, and nostalgia, linked to her personal experience as a migrant. She seeks to show that exile is not just a matter of physical location, but also a state of being that affects the soul. Her work is a declaration of resistance against the oppressive regime that controls women's bodies and seeks to redefine lost identities. She invites viewers, particularly women, to join her in questioning the social and cultural norms that oppress them.
Currently, Hanifa live and work in Bordeaux, France.