 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography, Video, Conceptual photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 51 |
| Germany | 34 |
| United Kingdom | 20 |
| France | 14 |
| Austria | 11 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Paula Cooper Gallery, USA |
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Anthony Reynolds Gallery, United Kingdom |
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Biography: 
1967 Born in Chbanieh (LB)
Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad.
His works to date include video, photography and literary essays. All, in one way or another, deal with the contemporary history of Lebanon with particular emphasis on the wars in Lebanon between 1975 to 1991. The work is also often concerned with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions; and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence.[1] He is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation.
Raad received his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1989. He went on to complete his MA and Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual Studies at the University of Rochester in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
Awards 2011 Hasselblad Award
Lives and works in New York, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 215
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Solo shows 30
2013
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| Walid Raad - Préface à la première édition - Musée du Louvre, Paris |
2012
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| Walid Raad - Scratching on Things I Could Disavow - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Beirut, Beirut |
2011
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| Walid Raad - Hasselblad Award Winner 2011 - Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg |
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| Walid Raad - Miraculous Beginnings - Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich |
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| Walid Raad – Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World - T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna |
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| Walid Raad - Miracolous Beginnings - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
2010
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| Miraculous Beginnings - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| We Decided to Let Them Say 'We Are Convinced' Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Walid Raad - Camera Austria, Graz |
2009
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| Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Walid Raad - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Walid Raad- Scratching on Things I could Disavow: A history of Art in the Arab World _ Part I _ Volume 1 _ Chapter 1: - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Atlas Group (1989-2004) Un proyecto de Walid Raad - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World - REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA |
2008
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| The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Selections from The Atlas Group Archive - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| A History of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art _ Part I _ Chapter 1: Beirut 1992-2005 - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Beirut, Beirut |
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| Walid Raad - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
2007
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| The Atlas Group - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| Walid Raad - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Atlas Group (1989-2004) - A Project by Walid Raad - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
2006
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| We Decided To Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It was More Convincing This Way. - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Werkraum 21 - The Atlas Group - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
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| Walid Raad - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive in collaboration with Walid Raad - Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC |
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| Walid Raad / The Atlas Group - The Kitchen, New York City, NY |
2005
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| The Atlas Group - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England) |
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| I Feel A Great Desire To Meet The Masses Once Again: A project by Walid Raad and The Atlas Group - Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario |
2004
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| The Atlas Group and Walid Raad - AGYU / Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON |
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| The Atlas Group - Walid Raad - Institute of International Visual Arts - iniva, London (England) |
2003
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| The Atlas Group / Walid Raad - The Complete Fakhouri File - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 178
2013
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| Still Life/Work Life - Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg |
2012
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| Walid Raad & David Diao - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Documenta (13) - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Fotografie Total - Werke Aus Der Sammlung Des Mmk - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main |
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| All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism - QUAD Gallery, Derby (England) |
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| Fremde Überall – Foreigners Everywhere - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection - Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna |
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| Making History - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main |
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| Wunder - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
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| Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies - Tensta Konsthall, Spanga |
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| Group Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| The Collection in Action - Media works from Vito Acconci to Simon Starling - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| En Obras. Coleção Teixeira De Freitas. - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Situation Z - art-cade - Galerie des grands bains douches de la Plaine, Marseille |
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| Atlas. How to carry the world on one's back? - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Hauntings – Ghost Box Media - Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz |
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| Museum Show Part 1 - Arnolfini, Bristol (England) |
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| Wunder - Kunst, Wissenschaft Und Religion Vom 4. Jahrhundert Bis Zur Gegenwart. - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| In camera and in public - CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Wild Sky - Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg |
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| Image in the Aftermath - Beirut Art Center, Beirut |
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| El intervalo luminoso: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao |
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| Antiphotojournalism - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
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| SERIOUS GAMES - Krieg – Medien – Kunst - Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt |
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| Abstract Possible: The Tamayo Take - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| Sharjah Biennial 10 - Plot for a Biennial - Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah |
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| SORTING DAEMONS - Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control - Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON |
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| Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
2010
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| 21st Century: Art in the First Decade - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| ATLAS ¿Cómo llevar el mundo a cuestas? - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Ground Level - Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (Wales) |
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| LET’S TALK ABOUT HOUSES: When Art Speaks Architecture [Constructing, Deconstructing, Dwelling] / Floor 2, 2A and Sculptu - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
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| Ground Level - Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II - QUAD Gallery, Derby (England) |
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| The future of tradition – the tradition of future - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Watchmen, Liars, Dreamers (Erudition concrete 3) - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| The 6th Seoul International Biennale of Media Art - Media City Seoul - International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul |
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| Antifotoperiodismo - La Virreina - Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona |
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| Ground Level - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| Alles anders? - Kunsthalle wien project space karlsplatz, Vienna |
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| La revanche de l'archive photographique - Centre de la photographie, Geneva |
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| A Vernacular Of Violence - Invisible-Exports, New York City, NY |
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| E-Flux Video Rental - Fondazione Giuliani, Rome |
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| Reprise - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| In-Book/Out-Book/If-Book - Museo della Città, Perugia |
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| Substitute Teacher - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control - Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario |
2009
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| Assume the Position - Townhouse Gallery, Cairo |
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| Photography - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Taswir – Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| DARKSIDE II - Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| I Like The Truth, I Never Liked Fiction (and vice versa) - Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul |
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| Monument to Transformation 1989-2009 - City Gallery Prague / Galerie Hlavního Města Prahy, Prague |
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| Den Frie Forårsudstilling - Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| Traum und Wirklichkeit. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus dem Nahen Osten - Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
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| Commentary - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Essential Works - Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris |
2008
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| I Might Die Before I Get A Rifle - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
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| La vidéo, un art, une histoire 1965 - 2007 - Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Éclats de frontières - FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille |
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| Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art - U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| Summer Screen - Spacex, Exeter (England) |
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| Quiet Politics - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| OÙ ? Scènes du Sud – Volet 2 - Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes |
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| Not Quite How I Remember It - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| 2MOVE: Ireland - Belfast Exposed, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| nothing to declare - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz |
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| Nothing to declare - 4. Triennale zeitgenössischer Kunst Oberschwaben - Triennale zeitgenössischer Kunst Oberschwaben, Friedrichshafen |
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| 2MOVE / Migratory Aesthetics - Stenersenmuseet, Oslo |
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| Art Now in Lebanon - Darat al Funum, Amman |
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| Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Esto no es una exposición - Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte |
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| Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East - British Museum, London (England) |
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| Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Car Culture - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Lügen.nirgends - Kunsthalle Münster, Münster |
2007
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| In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen |
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| Centre Pompidou Novos Media 1965-2003 - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
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| Brave New Worlds - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 100 Tage 100 Videos - Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen |
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| 6ª Bienal do Mercosul: A Terceira Margem do Rio - Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre |
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| Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| shooting back - T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna |
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| Her(his)tory - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens |
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| Forschen unf Erfinden - Die Recherche mit Bildern in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| In the Poem about love you don´t write the word love - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
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| The Shapes of Space - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Last News - LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk |
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| Cross-Border. Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| 3rd Auckland Triennial - Auckland Triennial, Auckland |
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| 2move. Movimiento Doble: Estéticas migratorias - Sala Verónicas, Murcia |
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| Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 07 - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
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| System error - War is a force that gives us meaning - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
2006
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| Drapeaux gris - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Centre Pompidou Video Art - 1965-2005 - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| Ah, les belles images - in SITU/FABIENNE LECLERC, Paris |
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| In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
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| Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography - Perlman Teaching Museum, Northfield, MN |
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| Ghosts In The Machine - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
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| DEFINING THE CONTEMPORARY - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Video: An Art, A History 1965 - 2005 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| 100 Tage=100 Videos - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
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| Territory - Artspeak, Vancouver, BC |
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| Why Pictures Now - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Photo-Trafic - - Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève, Geneva (closed, 2008) |
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| Biennale of Sydney, Zones of Contact - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| 15th Biennale of Sydney 2006 - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Word into Art - ArtSchool Palestine, London (England) |
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| Out of Beirut - Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (England) |
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| Grey Flags - SculptureCenter, New York City, NY |
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| NEW MEDIA 1965-2005 Selected works from Centre - Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei |
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| Arquivar Tormentas - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| SNAFU - Medien, Mythen, Mind Control - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Vidéos Séquence 2 - Maison des Arts de Malakoff , Malakoff |
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| When Artists Say We - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
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| Without Boundary - Seventeen Ways of Looking - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Neo-Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Une vision du monde - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Sichtbarkeiten - Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg |
2005
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| Screening War - Zur Repräsentation von Krieg in der Videokunst - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Faith - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
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| Tiempos de Vídeo 1965-2005 - Colección Nouveaux Médias del Centre Pompidou - CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| Information/Transformation - Extra City - Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Mapping Sitting - On Portraiture and Photography - The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR |
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| Go Between - Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz |
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| In Absentia - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest |
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| Mirage - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| On Difference #1 - Lokale Kontexte - Hybride Räume - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
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| Reprocessing Reality - Château de Nyon, Nyon |
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| What’s New Pussycat? - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main |
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| Greater New York 2005 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Interessi Zero - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento |
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| RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture - Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Beyond East and West - Seven Transnational Artists - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| Incorporated - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Truer Than The Truth - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England) |
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| Mapping Sitting - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Tapei Biennial 2004 - Do you believe in reality? - Taipei Biennial, Taipei |
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| The Young Artists’ Biennial - Images of Violence/ Violence of Images - The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest |
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| Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH |
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| Minority Report - Aarhus Festival of Contemporary Art, Aarhus |
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| Transcultures - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| Mapping Sitting - On portraiture and photography - - Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève, Geneva (closed, 2008) |
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| Je m'installe aux Abattoirs - La collection d'art contemporain d'Agnès b. - les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse |
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| The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Documentary - Fictions - CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| Beyond East And West - Seven Transnational Artists - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
2003
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| Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen - Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover |
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| Synopsis 3-Testimonies: Between Fiction and Reality - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| A Short History of Performance - Part II - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| X- Lands/Extended - - Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig (closed, 2004) |
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| Fresh Meat - Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Haupt-und Nebenwege - Galerie Christian Nagel - Köln, Cologne |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| a respeito de SITUAÇÕES REAIS - Paço das Artes, São Paulo |
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| DisORIENTation - Contemporary Arab Artists from the Middle East - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Contemporary Arab Representations: Beirut/Lebanon - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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| Substream - Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo |
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| M_ARS - Art and War - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
2002
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| This is Then - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
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| images/codes - Medienkunstpreis 2002 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
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| Documenta 11 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Whitney Biennial 2002 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
2001
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| 9e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement - Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva |
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| Rhethorics of surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| 4e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique - champ libre, Montreal, QC |
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| D>Art.01 - dLux media arts, Sydney, NSW |
2000
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| Whitney Biennial 2000 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Mediterranean Metaphors III - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006) |
| Dealer Directory 4 |
Germany
| | Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg
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Lebanon
| | Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Beirut, Beirut
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United Kingdom
| | Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 8
Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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Greece
| | National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
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Italy
| | MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
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Sweden
| | Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Apexart, New York City, NY
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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