WALID RAAD
Walid Raad (b. 1967, Chbanieh, Lebanon) received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a master of arts degree and doctorate of philosophy from the University of Rochester; he currently lives and works in Beirut and New York. Raad’s conceptual practice explores issues of trauma, collective memory, and the representation of conflict. Illuminating the fraught contemporary history of his native country through the device of a fictional archive, Raad has exhibited, published, and lectured about a growing body of photographs, texts, films, and videos that purport to chronicle Lebanon’s protracted civil war of 1975-90.
His numerous prizes include the Alpert Award, presented by CalArts, Los Angeles (2007); First Prize, Vidarte Festival, Mexico City (2002); First Prize, Video Ex, Zurich (2001); Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival (2000); Special Jury Prize, Fifth Biennial for Arab Cinemas, Institut du monde Arabe, Paris (2000); Grand Prize at the Eighth Biennial of the Moving Image, Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Geneva (1999); and Best Short Film and Best Scenario for a Short Film, Beirut Film Festival (1999).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2008)
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence (2008)
Emory University, Atlanta (2007)
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2007)
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2006)
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006)
The Kitchen, New York (2006)
FACT, Liverpool (2005)
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2005)
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2004)
La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (2003)
Kampnagel, Hamburg
GROUP SHOWS
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2008-09)
Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York (2008)
Other Certainties, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, Bethel University (2008)
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008)
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York (2008)
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007-08)
15th Biennale of Sydney (2006)
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006)
Word into Art: Artists from the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London (2006)
New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005)
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2005)
Borrowed Time, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York (2005)
Do You Believe in Reality? Fourth Taipei Biennial (2004-05)
The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004-05)
Sixth International Photo Triennale, Esslingen, Germany (2004)
Witness, Barbican, London (2003)
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale (2003)
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2000)
