Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Lalla Essaydi. Falk Visiting Artist, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Lalla Essaydi: Conflicted Identities, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2022

Lalla Essaydi: Image and Text, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Lalla Essaydi: A New Gaze, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, United States of America
Lalla Essaydi: Un/Veiled, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

2021

Lalla Essaydi, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, Unite States of America
By Design: Theatre and Fashion in the Photography of Lalla Essaydi, Fairfield University Art Museum, Connecticut, United States of America

2020

Lalla Essaydi, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, USA

2019

Lalla Essaydi: From Converging Territories to Harem Revisited, Newport Art Museum, USA

2018

Truth and Beauty, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San José State University, San José, USA
Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette Art Galleries, Lafayette College, Easton, USA
The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA

2017

Still in Progress, Leila Heller Gallery, Al-Qoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2016

The Inscription of Gender and Power on Muslim Women’s Bodies, Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
The Harem: Essentialized Sensuality, Kwan Fong Gallery, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA
Lalla Essaydi: Arab Female Identity, Fitchburg State University Museum, Fitchburg, USA

2015

Lalla Essaydi, San Diego Museum of Art, California, United States of America
Lalla Essaydi, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Lalla Essaydi: Converging Territories, Francis T. Eck Exhibition Corridor, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, USA
The Dangerous Frontier, Kashya Hildebrand, London, United Kingdom

2014

New Beauty, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Writing the Self…Writing Others, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
Harem and Bullets Revisited, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
Women of the Arab World: The Works of Lalla Essaydi, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA

2013

Lalla Essaydi, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lalla Essaydi, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, United States of America
Boundries, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Central, Hong Kong, China
Poésie Lumière, Galerie Tindouf, Tangier, Morocco
Beyond Time and Beauty, The Baku Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
Beyond Beauty, Kashya Hildebrand, London, United Kingdom
Writing Femininity, Writing Pleasure, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, USA

2012

The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, USA
Revisions, National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
Les Femmes du Magreb, Orientalist Museum, Doha, Qatar 

2011

Recent Works, Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Les Femmes du Maroc, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Power of Writing, National Gallery of Art, Tangier, Morocco
Les Femmes du Maroc, National Gallery, Fes, Morocco
Power of Writing, Bab Rouah National Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Les Femmes du Maroc, Galerie Edwynn Houk, Zürich, Switzerland
Harem, L’Atelier 21, Casablanca, Morocco
Harem, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2010

Les Femmes du Maroc, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United State of America
Lalla Essaydi: L’Ecriture Feminine/ Le Corps Feminin, Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA
Photographs by Lalla Essaydi: L’Ecriture Feminine/ Le Corps Feminin, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

2009

Les Femmes du Maroc, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States of America
Les Femmes du Maroc, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA
Les Femmes du Maroc, Tindouf Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Les Femmes du Maroc, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait

2008

Lalla Essaydi, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Crossroads, Waterhouse & Dodd, London, United Kingdom
Indelible: The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA
Les Femmes du Maroc, Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Les Femmes du Maroc, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA

2007

Les Femmes du Maroc, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Les Femmes du Maroc, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, USA

2006

Transgressions, Williams College Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States of America
Converging Territories, Jackson Fine Art Photography Gallery, Atlanta, United States of America
Converging Territories, The New Britain Museum of Art, Britain, United kingdom
Converging Territories, Joel Soroka Gallery, Colorado, United States of America

2005

Converging Territories, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
Embodiments, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Converging Territories, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, USA
Converging Territories, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA

2004

Threshold, Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston, USA
Photographs: Behind Closed Doors – The Lives of Women in Morocco, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA

2003

Converging Territories, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, USA

2001

Photography, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Entangled Gaze, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Splendours Of The Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco’s Heritage, Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha, Qatar
Africa Rising: 21st-Century African Photography, Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Die Schrift ist weiblich. Bild und Text in der internationalen Kunst, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, Germany
Pov: in My Nasher Teen Era, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA

2023

Reigning Queens: Modern and Contemporary Representations of Women, Power, and Religion, Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska, USA
Site of a Dangerous Leap, UK Art Museum, Kentucky, USA
Reorientation: The Space In-Between, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore, Singapore
Framing The Female Gaze: Women Artists And The New Historicism, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
Together/Apart: Modern and Contemporary Art of the United States, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA

2022

Pedagogy, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, United States of America
Spring Group Show, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Portrait of a Lady, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
A Room of Her Own, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Photography, Jewels and Handbags, Sotheby's Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Letters From Overseas: Zooming Into The De Molina’s Collection, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, US

2021

ReOrienting the Gaze, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, United States of America
A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time & Place, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

2020

Sundaram Tagore Gallery Survey, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Inherent Beauty: Photographers Who Change How We See The World, Sundaram Tagore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Unapologetic: All Women, All Year, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

2019

Contextual: Visualizing Language, Cabrillo Gallery, California, United States of America
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, Carolina, United States of America
Uncovered, Bates College, Museum of Art, Lewiston, United States of America
WHO? A Brief History of Photography through Portraiture, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, United States of America

2018

Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family foundation, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette university, Oregon, United States of America
Summertime…, Jenkis Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Summer Show: A selection of gallery Artists and new acquisitions, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, United States of America
Spring Selection, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Convergence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, United States of America

2017

Alchemy: Transformation in Gold, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, United States of America
Immigrancy, Samson Projects, South End, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Revival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, United States of America
Feminine/Feminist, Cinnabar Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Embodied, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

2016

Director’s Pick, Jenkis Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America
Portraiture: A Group Photography Exhibition, Jenkis Johnson Gallery, San Francisco,California, United States of America
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., United States of America
Summertime…, Jenkis Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States of America
African Art Against the State, Museum of Art, Williams College, Massachusetts, United States of America

2015

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World,vCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Director’s Pick, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States of America

2014

Language as Inspiration: Works from deCordova’s Collection, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States of America
Look At Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, United States of America
Altered: Appropriation & Photography, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, United States of America
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, Unite States of America

2013

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Nomads: Traversing Adolescence, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

2011

25 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

2010

Art of Today, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, USA
Traversing Gender, Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett, USA
Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA

2009

Camouflage, La Casa Enciendida, Madrid, Spain
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
Ingres et les Modernes, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
A Complete Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, Center for the Arts, Towson University, Towson, USA
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Transitions: Painting at the (other) End of Art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
Decoding Identity: I Do It for My People, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA
Timbuktu to Cape Town, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Photographic Figures, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
25th Alexandria Biennial for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria, Egypt

2008

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Far from Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA

2007

ON THE WALL: Aperture Magazine 05/06, Aperture Foundation, New York, United States of America
NAZAR, The National Museum, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, United States of America

2006

Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States of America

2005

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, United States of America
NAZAR, Langhans Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
NAZAR, Aperture Foundation, Chelsea, New York, United States of America
In the Company of Women, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States of America

2004

8th International Photography Gathering, Le Pont Gallery, Aleppo, Syria
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Leewarden, Netherlands
Some of Their Parts, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, USA
The Melting: An Evolution of American Culture, Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, USA

2003

Sustaining Vision: 8th Annual Photography Competition Exhibition, Seattle, USA
Photography Center Northwest, Young Photography: Multiple Expressions, Anderson Gallery, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Young Photography: Multiple Expressions Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Young Photography: Multiple Expressions, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, USA
Images As Projections, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Sheherazade: Risking the Passage, The El Colegio Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art, Minneapolis, USA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, USA
A Polish Princess In America: Selections from the Private Art Collection of Princess Sophia Solar Michalski, McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, USA

2002

Almost Home, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Silence and Invisibility, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, USA
Regarding Beauty: Annual Juried Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, West Gallery, Texas Women’s University, Denton, USA
National Graduate Seminar Fellows Exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
Exposure, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, USA
Group Photography Show, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Input Output, Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, USA
Karsh Photography Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
The Boit, Grossman Gallery, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Projected Images: Visual to Political, J. Wayne Reitz Union, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

2001

Group Photography Show, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

2000

Two Women, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
Annual Juried Painting Exhibition, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Group Juried Photography Show, WGBH, Boston, MA WBZTV Gallery, Boston, USA

Awards and Honors

2012

Awarded a Medal Award by the School of the Museum of fine Arts (SMFA) in Boston on the occasion of Fine Arts Gala Celebration

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
The Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
The Brooks Museum of Arts, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
The Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States of America
The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, United States of America
The Colorado Museum of Art, Colorado, United States of America
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, Germany
The Kresge Art Museum, Michigan, United States of America