Born in 1967, Lebanon
Lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon and New York, NY

EDUCATION
1996 Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1993 MA, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1989 BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010

• Walid Raad, Camera Austria, Austria

2009

• “Walid Raad, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow”, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
• “1_Chapter 1, Beirut 1992-2005, a project by Walid Raad”, RedCat, Los Angeles, CA; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy; Paula Cooper, New York, NY
• “The Atlas Group (1989- 2004), Un Proyecto de Walid Raad”, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2007 - 2009

• “Brave New Worlds”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2008

• “The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Selections from the Atlas Group Archive”, curated by Mary Leclère, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
• “A History of Contemporary and Modern Arab Art_Part 1: Lebanon 1992-2008”, Galerie Sfeir
  -Semler, Beirut, Lebanon
• “Walid Raad: The Atlas Group Documents”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
• “We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask”, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence RI

2007

• Sfeir -Semler, Hamburg, Germany; Beirut, Lebanon
• “The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad”, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; Culturgest, Lisbon
• “cross-Border:Photography and Video Art from the MUMOK Vienna”, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart
• “A Project by Walid Raad”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006

• Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
• National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
• Concordia Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada
• The Kitchen, New York, NY

2005

• Museum for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
• Gallery Reynolds, London, England
• Fact, Liverpool, Great Britain
• The Kitchen, New York, NY
• Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
• “Funny How Thin This Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive”, FACT, Liverpool, England
• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• “Mapping Sitting”, with the Arab Image Foundation, Grey Art Galler, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010

• “Pictures & Statues”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH

2008

• “Archive Fever”, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
• Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
• Montpellier Festival, Montpellier
• “Not Quite How I Remember It”, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
• “Deadpan: Photography and History”, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Centre, New York, NY
• Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
• “2Move: Irland, Belfast Exposed Photography and Solstice Art Centre”, Belfast- Navan
• “Curating Architecture”, The Showroom, London, England

2007

• “In The Poem About Love You Don`t Write The World Love”, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
• Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), Photographers Gallery, London, England; Deutsche Börse Group’s headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany; C/O Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• “Re-Thinking Beirut”, aMAZE cultural lab, Milan, Italy
• 6th Mercosur Biennial, (I Only Wish That I Could Weep), Porto Alegre, Brazil
• “No place”, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN
• “(We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.) A Project by Walid Raad”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
• “AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art”, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield, CT; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
• “The Screen eye or The New Image”, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg 3rd Auckland
• Triennial, Auckland
• “Her(his)tory”, N.P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
• “Documents, the Memory of the Future”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain: Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
• “Ah, les belles images!”, in Situ-Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
• “Distorted Fabric”, De Appel Museum, Amsterdam
• “CLUB VOYEUR: CORCORAN, Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics” Montevideo Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
• “(We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.)”
• “Under the Same Sky”, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen

2006

• “Video: an Art, a History”, Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami
• “Grey Flags”, Capc-Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
• “Ghost in the Machine”, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
• “Raw”, Olot, Barcelona, Spain
• “Video Sequence 2”, Maison des Arts, Malakoff
• “Faith”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
• “While we were sleeping”, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
• “Une vision du monde - la collection video d’ Jean-Conrad et Isabel Lemaitre”, La Maison Rouge, Paris,France (catalogue)
• “Out of Beirut”, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
• “Word into Art – Artists from the Modern Middle East”, British Museum, London, England
• “100 Tag =100 Videos”, Heidelberger Kunstverein e.V., Heidelberg
• Sydney Biennale
• “Seventeen days of Looking”, MOMA, New York, NY

2005

• “Flight 405”, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany; Beirut, Lebanon
  Kunstverein Bregenz
• Contemporary Feature and The Davies Foundation Galleries
• Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
• Le Magasin, Grenoble
• “In the Poem about Love you don’t write the word Love”, CCA, Glasgow
• “Information/Transformation”, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
• “Mirage”, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
• “Borrowed Time”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

2004

• House of World Culture, Berlin, GermanyPalais de Tokyo, Paris, France
• Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels
• Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
• “Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (with Rovner, Amer, Kami, Sikander, Al-Ani, Hatoum)”, touring to Hood Museum Dartmouth College, Williams College)
• University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, IL
• Sfeir Semmler, Hamburg, Germany

2003

• Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
• Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany
• La Gallerie Noisy le Sec.
• Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
• Global Priority, University of Massachussetts, MA
• Musee Niepce, Chalon sur Soane_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
• Video Brasil, Sao Paolo
• Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
• 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice
• Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
• Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
• Witness, Barbican Centre, London, England

2002

• Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
• Documenta11, Kassel
• Witte de With, Rotterdam
• Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. _Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
• Watson Insitute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
• Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
• Migros Museum for Contemporary Arts, Zurich
• “What, A Tale of Images”, Memling Museum, Brugge
• Atlanta Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
• Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam
• “Negation and Consumption”, Ocularis Cinema, Williamsburg, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006

• Siddiqui, Yasmeen and Hrag Vartanian. Walid Raad / The Atlas Group.” The Brooklyn Rail . March 2006: 20-21.

2005

• Jones, Caroline. “Doubt Fear.” Art Papers . January/February 2005: 24-35.

2004

• Carlotti, Roberto. “Beirut, la Guerra in autobomba.” Il Manifesto. 16 june 2004: 16.
• Kaplan, Janet. “Flirtations With Evidence.” Art in America . October 2004: 134-139.
• Milroy, Sarah. “What’s Wrong With This Picture.” Globe and Mail . 30 September 2004: 20.
• Searle, Adrian. “The Atlas Group.” T h e Guardia n . 8 June 2004: 24.
• Wallach, Amei. “The Fine Art of Car Bombing.” The New York Times . 20 June 2004: 30.
• Whitehead, Frederika. “Transcultures” C o ntemporary . (66) 2004:69.
• Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. “Atlas Group Brings War Documents Home.” The Daily Star. 8 May 2004: 12.

2003

• Root, Deborah. “Mapping the disaster.” Prefix Photo . May 2003 (7): 30-41
• Smith, Lee. “Missing in Action.” A r tforum . February 2003 (6): 124-129.
• Anton, Saul. “A Secret History.” F r ieze . January/February 2003 (72): 68-69

2002

• Al-Kassim, Dina. “Crisis of the Unseen.” Parachute . October 2002 (108): 146-163.
• Gilbert, Alan. “Walid Raad.” Bomb . Fall 2002: 38-45.
• Rogers, Sarah. “Forging History, Performing Memory.”
• Parachute . October 2002 (108): 68-79.

PERFORMANCE
2003

• Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
• Spiel Art, Munich, Germany
• Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
• Experimenta 03, Cardiff
• Kampnagel, Hamburg
• Belluard Theater Festival, FribourgNew York University, New York, NY
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• Columbia University, New York, PA
• In Transit, House of World Cultures, Berlin, PA

2002

• Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
• Documenta11, Kassel, Germany
• MEMEAC, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
• Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
• Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain
• Migros Museum for Contemporary Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
• Eurokaz Festival, Zagreb
• 2002 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
• Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
• Foundation Cartier, Paris, France

SELECTED AWARD/LECTURES
2007

• Alpert Award, presented by CalArts, Los Angeles, CA

2003

• Rockefeller Fellowship
• Production Grant, Caisse des Depots, Paris, France

2002

• First Prize, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
• First Prize, Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
• First Prize, Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
• Media Arts Award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Second Prize, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ

2001

• First Prize, Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland
• Rhineland Award, Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany
• Professional Staff Congress, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY

2000

• Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
• Special Jury Prize, 5th Biennial for Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
• First Prize, Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland
• NYSCA Distribution Grant, New York, NY
• Professional Staff Congress, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
• Mellon Fellowship, AUB, Lebanon

1999

• Grand Prize, 8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Switzerland
• Best Short Film and Best Scenario For a Short Film, Beirut Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
• Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ
• Media Production Grant, Jerome Foundation, New York, NY
• Scholar Incentive Award, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
• Massachusetts Media Fellowship, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, MA
• BFVF Production Grant, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, MA
• Professional Staff Congress, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY

1998

• Award of Accomplishment, Missouri Film Festival, St. Louis, MO
• MacArthur Development Grant (with Joan Braderman and Jackie Hayden), Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

1997

• Best Conceptual Innovation Award, New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA

1995

• Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
• Experimental Television Center Residency, Newark Valley, NY
• Rush Rhees Doctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

1993

• Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY