Bissane Al Charif is a scenographer and installation artist. She studied architecture at the University of Damascus and scenography at the School of Architecture in Nantes. She worked at the Damascus Opera, as well as in cinema and theatre. 

In 2012, she moved to France, where she continues working as an independent artist and developing research in digital art. She created the scenography for While I Was Waiting (Avignon Festival, 2017) and The Factory by Omar Abusaada (Volksbühne, Berlin, 2018). 

In 2015, she was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for Memory(s) of Women, an installation telling the stories of eight Syrian refuge women. Her project Sham, showing Damascus through the eyes of children, was presented at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris (2017). In 2019, In a Garden I Entered (with Chrystèle Khodr) was shown in Brussels, Beirut, Naples, and Groningen.