Artist's arttributes:
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Painting |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 59 |
| France | 14 |
| Italy | 10 |
| Germany | 10 |
| Switzerland | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Cheim & Read, USA |
5 |
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Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Switzerland |
4 |
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The Goodman Gallery, South Africa |
3 |
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA |
3 |
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Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1963 Born in Cairo (EG)
Lives and works in Paris (FR) and New York, NY (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 153 
Solo shows 27
2012
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| Ghada Amer - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
2011
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| Ghada Amer: 100 Words of Love - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Ghada Amer: Color Misbehavior - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
2009
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| GHADA AMER - Dirimart, Istanbul |
2008
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| Ghada Amer: Love Has No End - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Ghada Amer - Another Spring - Kukje Gallery, Seoul |
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| Ghada Amer - MACRO Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome |
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| Ghada Amer - Francesca Minini, Milan |
2006
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| Ghada Amer - Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch |
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| Ghada Amer - Breathe into me - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Ghada Amer - H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
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| The Reign of Terror - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
2004
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| Ghada Amer - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| Ghada Amer - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
2003
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| Ghada Amer - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
2002
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| Ghada Amer - Reading Between the Threads - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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| Ghada Amer - - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) (closed) |
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| Ghada Amer - Cinema Sounds Synergy - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Ghada Amer - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
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| Ghada Amer - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
2001
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| Ghada Amer - - Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
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| Ghada Amer: Pleasure - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Ghada Amer: Recent Work - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2000
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| Ghada Amer - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Ghada Amer - - Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
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| Ghada Amer - INOVA - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
Group shows 126
2012
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| Stretching The Limits: Fibers In Contemporary Painting - SCAD Museum of Art , Savannah, GA |
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| The Mediterranean Approach - SESC, São Paulo |
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| Le Corps découvert - Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris |
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| Prism: Drawing from 1990 to 2012 - The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo |
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| The Mediterranean Approach - MAC Musées d´Art Contemporain Marseille, Marseille |
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| Advance/...Notice - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
2011
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| Great Impressions Iii - Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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| El Espacio Intermedio - MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña |
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| The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
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| American Prints II - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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| Filament - Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva |
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| Skin - Gruppenausstellung - Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne |
2010
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| Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando? - Museo MAGA, Gallarte (VA) |
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| Abu Dhabi Artfair 2010 - Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi |
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| residua - Maraya Art Centre - Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah |
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| Winter Show - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| In Context - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| 20 Years Already! - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
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| I love you - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus |
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| Pandora's Box - Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON |
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| Wild is the Wind - Gutstein Gallery - Savannah College of Art And Design, Savannah, GA |
2009
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| GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| What Would the Community Think? - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Abu Dhabi Art 2009 - Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi |
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| In Stitches - Leila Heller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| PastPresentFuture - Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna |
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| 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| Abstractions by Gallery Artists - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
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| Who killed the Painting? - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
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| elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Antes de ayer y pasado mañana; o lo que puede ser pintura hoy - MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña |
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| Small Works from Private Collections - Grieder Contemporary Sils-Maria, Sils-Maria |
2008
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| Prospect.1 New Orleans - Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
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| „Who killed the painting?“ Werke aus der Sammlung Block im Neuen Museum in Nürnberg - Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg |
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| Under the Influence - Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA |
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| Feminae - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
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| The Future Must Be Sweet - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Pandora's Box - Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK |
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| les ateliers de rennes - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes |
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| Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings - Tina Kim Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh - STPI - Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore |
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| Far from Home - North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
2007
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| Ghada Amer, Reza Farkhondeh - Collaborative Drawings - Kukje Gallery, Seoul |
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| La parola nell'arte. Ricerche d'avanguardia nel '900. Dal Futurismo ad oggi attraverso le Collezioni del Mart - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| Pricked: Extreme Embroidery - Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY |
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| Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Global Feminism - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| Global Feminisms Remix - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Substance & Surface - Bortolami, New York City, NY |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg |
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| Commemorating 30 Years Part III: 1991-2007 - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Gender Stitchery - Perlman Teaching Museum, Northfield, MN |
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| Global Feminisms - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| What F Word? - - Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 2008) |
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| Great Impressions - Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Collective One - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
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| New Prints 2007/ Winter - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Trienal de Luanda 2007 - Trienal de Luanda, Luanda |
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| C'era una volta un re - ARCOS - Museo di Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento |
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| Alles klar? - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg |
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| The Grand Promenade - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| 15th Biennale of Sydney 2006 - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Without Boundary - Seventeen Ways of Looking - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Threads of memory - Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP), New York City, NY |
2005
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| Centre of Gravity - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| hanging by a thread - - The Moore Space, Miami, FL (closed, 2008) |
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| Pilar Albarracín - Here Comes the Sun - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Opus, nouvelle présentation des collections permanentes - LaM - Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
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| 51st International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - Always a little further - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Vertigo - Meadow Arts, Craven Arms, Shropshire (England) |
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| Identitá & Nomadismo - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
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| African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Beyond East and West - Seven Transnational Artists - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| Textures - Word & Symbol in Contemporary African Art - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
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| Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
2004
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| Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH |
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| De leur temps. Collections privées Francaises - MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing |
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| Looking Both Ways - Contemporary African Diaspora - Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
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| Artists' Favourites - act II - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| monument to now - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Le Opere e i Giorni - Certosa di Padula, Padula |
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| Looking Both Ways - Contemporary Artists from Africa - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
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| Kunst Stoff - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Beyond East And West - Seven Transnational Artists - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
2003
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| Reverie - Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| 2. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 - Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken |
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| Mani d’oro – arte e ricami nell’arte contemporanea - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| Veil - Institute of International Visual Arts - iniva, London (England) |
2002
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| Synopsis 2 - Theologies - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| Tania Bruguera–Ghada Amer - Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Doble Filo - Bilbao Arte, Bilbao |
2001
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| ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| The Short Century - Das kurze Jahrhundert der Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Sous- titrée X, la pornographie entre image et propos - Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes |
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| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
2000
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| Deitch/Steinberg Editions - - Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
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| PICAF 2000 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| 5e Biennale de Lyon - Partage d'exotismes - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Passé compose / Futur antérieur - Musse D’art Roger Quilliot, Clermont Ferrand |
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| Continental Shift - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| 3rd Gwangju Biennale - Man+Space - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Whitney Biennial 2000 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Greater New York: New Art in New York Now - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
1999
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| A girl like you - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
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| Skin - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Corps Social - École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris |
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| Third International Biennial Exhibition: Looking For A Place - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe's Third International Biennial - Looking for a place - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| L'envers du décor - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
1998
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| Echolot oder neun Fragen an die Peripherie - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
1997
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| French Kiss - Artspeak, Vancouver, BC |
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| French Kiss - CAG - Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Thread - Cristinerose Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Ceremonial - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Obcutek za red - Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana |
1995
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| 4. International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
1994
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| Bifurcations - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
Dealer Directory 8 |
Italy
Portugal
South Korea
Switzerland
| | Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva
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Tunisia
| | Galerie El Marsa, La Marsa
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USA
| | Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL
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| | Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
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| | Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
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Collections 8

France
| | Musée d'art moderne de Céret, Céret
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| | FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand
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| | FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
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| | CCC - Centre de Creation Contemporaine, Tours
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Israel
| | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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United Arab Emirates
| | Maraya Art Centre - Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah
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USA
| | Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
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| | Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
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