Neïla Czermak Ichti was born in Bondy in 1996 and lives and works in Marseille.

Her practice unfolds at the intersection of fiction and personal narrative. Scenes that appear everyday and mundane are imbued with hidden, magical, and invisible dimensions. Through drawing and painting, she depicts the figures that shape her life—chosen and biological families, friends, as well as creatures drawn from ancestral beliefs, horror cinema, and fantasy films.

In her work, monsters and hybrid beings populate a universe in which they act as protective figures, symbols of transition, and carriers of the unspoken. Neïla explores inner journeys, solitude, and stories and traumas passed down from one generation to the next.

A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille in 2021, her work has been shown at Villa Arson in Nice, MO.CO. Montpellier, and CAC Brétigny, as well as in the exhibition Désolé at Galerie Édouard-Manet in Gennevilliers, curated by Mohamed Bourouissa. At the invitation of Anna Labouze and Keimis Henni, Neïla Czermak Ichti took part in the exhibition Après l’éclipse at Les Magasins Généraux in Pantin, and in 2024 presented a duo show with the artist Baya at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes as part of the triennial La Contemporaine. That same year, her work was presented at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in AraboFuturs, Science-fiction et Nouveaux imaginaires.