Saodat Ismailova (b. 1981, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) studied film and video direction at the State Institute of Arts in Tashkent. In recent years, she has exhibited at Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), documenta fifteen (2022), and in solo exhibitions at Swiss Institute, NY, 2026, Portikus, Frankfurt 2026, Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan (2023 /24), Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam (2023), Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing (2023), Center for Contemporaray Arts, Tashkent, 2019 among others. . Her works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern, London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the FRAC in France, Pinault Collection, France, the Almaty Museum of Arts, and Tselinny Temporary in Almaty among others.