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MONA HATOUM MONA HATOUM

MONA HATOUM, Palestine (1952)

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Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952, to Palestinian refugees displaced during the Nakba in 1948. She began her higher education at the Beirut College for Women (later Beirut University...

Written by Alessandra Amin

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952, to Palestinian refugees displaced during the Nakba in 1948. She began her higher education at the Beirut College for Women (later Beirut University College; now part of the Lebanese American University), where she studied graphic design from 1970-1972. Like most Palestinians in Lebanon, Hatoum’s family was unable to obtain Lebanese citizenship, but her father’s former job as a civil servant under the British Mandate enabled them to obtain UK passports. During what had been intended as a short trip to London in 1975, the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War prevented the artist from returning to Beirut. Hatoum thus became the exiled daughter of exiles, an experience that would significantly impact her work both thematically and technically; she completed her arts education in London, first at the Byam Shaw School of Art (now Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design) from 1975-1979, and then at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1979-1981. 

Hatoum’s early work is characterized by aggressive, overtly political content and largely takes the form of performance and video art. An illustrative example is The Negotiating Table (1983), in which the artist lies motionless on a table, surrounded by empty chairs and dimly lit from above by a sole lightbulb. Her body is covered in blood and viscera, bundled in plastic, and her face is obscured by the surgical gauze that wraps her entire head. The piece was produced in direct response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, as is suggested by the sound clips accompanying Hatoum’s performance, which feature news reports on the war and speeches by Western leaders promising peace in the region. Evoking, at once, a sacrificial altar and an operating table, the work sends a powerful message about the inability of Lebanese civilians to “negotiate” for their lives through the uneven frameworks of power in which they find themselves.

By the mid-1990s, Mona Hatoum had shifted her focus to object-based pieces that strayed from direct engagement with political protest. Hatoum stated in a 1996 interview with Michael Archer, “I don’t think art is the best place to be didactic; I don’t think the language of visual art is the most suitable for presenting clear arguments, let alone for trying to convince, convert or teach.” Rather than taking on discrete political circumstances, Hatoum’s work of this period addresses various and multifaceted themes of nomadism and exile, recasting the stuff of everyday life in a disorienting, unstable light. Home (1999), for example, is an installation of metal kitchen appliances on a wooden tabletop. Wires wind menacingly through these utensils – which include a whisk, a colander, a ladle, a sieve, a pasta maker, presses, a pastry cutter, and several graters – and connect them with crocodile clips, conducting electricity through the metal objects. The electrical current thus transmitted, which is controlled by a software program, periodically lights up the installation from bulbs placed under an upright grater, the colander and the sieve, and a sound system amplifies the threatening crackle of electricity through the room. Home is characteristic of Hatoum’s work in the 1990s and early 2000s in its immediate juxtaposition of domesticity and danger. The transformation of ‘safe,’ quotidian objects into hazardous materials creates a palpable instability that inverts conceptions of domestic comfort, turning a kitchen table into a hostile and alien site – an allusion to the precarious nature of “home” for a person living in exile.

Mona Hatoum’s Witness (2009), currently in the Ramzi & Saeda Dalloul Collection, speaks to the direction of the artist’s work since the mid-2000s. This small sculpture, not quite 50cm in height, is a miniature ceramic replica of the Martyr’s Monument in downtown Beirut. The original monument, erected in 1960, was heavily damaged during the civil war, and the restorations it underwent in 1996 intentionally preserved the marks left on it by bullets and shells. Hatoum’s replica subtly emphasizes these holes, which appear in contrast to the smooth white of the ceramic. The original monument is centrally located in a public space, and its scars “bear witness” to a brutal conflict that touched virtually every family in the city. In shrinking it down to a miniature, Hatoum brings the statue down to a domestic scale, as though it is an object for personal contemplation – or even for mere decorative use. Here, Hatoum’s deliberate manipulation of boundaries between “the public” and “the private” prompts reflection on the very nature of commemoration itself. To what extent do monuments help us mourn our dead? To what extent do they glorify or sterilize the events they represent? In enshrining our losses, do we guard against the repetition of history, or do we nurture old grudges?

Hatoum, who is arguably the most internationally successful Palestinian artist working today, currently resides between London and Berlin.

Sources

Archer, Michael, Guy Brett, and Catherine de Zegher. Mona Hatoum. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.

Daftari, Fereshteh. “Home and Away,” MoMA 3, no. 8 (November 2000), pp. 2-5

Hatoum, Mona and Laura Steward Heon,eds. Mona Hatoum: Domestic Disturbance. North Adams, MA: Mass MoCA, 2001.

Hatoum, Mona, Edward W. Said, and Sheena Wagstaff, Mona Hatoum: The Entire World as a Foreign Land. London: Tate Britain, 2000.

Mansoor, Jaleh. “A Spectral Universality: Mona Hatoum’s Biopolitics of Abstraction.” October 133 (Summer 2010), pp. 49-79

Schulenberg, Anneke. “Sites and Senses: Mapping Palestinian Territories in Mona Hatoum’s Sculpture Present Tense,” in The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture, eds. Jeroen Goudeau et al., Leiden, Boston:  Brill, 2014, pp. 11-32.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019

Mona Hatoum, Remains To Be Seen, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
Mona Hatoum at ICA Boston, USA
Mona Hatoum, Galerie Chantal Croussel, Paris, France

2018

Displacements/Entourtungen: Ayşe Erkmen & Mona Hatoum, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
Terra Infirma, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2017

The 10th Hiroshima Art Prize,Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Terra Infirma, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Displacements/Entourtungen: Ayşe Erkmen & Mona Hatoum, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany 

2016

Mona Hatoum, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Mona Hatoum, Tate Modern, London, UK

2015

Twelve Windows, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Mona Hatoum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Mona Hatoum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2014

Turbulence, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Twelve Windows, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Mona Hatoum, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
Close Quarters, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium
Mona Hatoum, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Mona Hatoum, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2013

Mappings, Centre d’art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France
A Body of Work, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Mona Hatoum, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Reflection, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Mona Hatoum, Chapelle des Penitents Noirs, Aubagne, France

2012

You Are Still Here, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Projection, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Shift, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2011

Silver Lining, Hochschule der Künste, Bern, Switzerland
Bunker, White Cube, London,UK
Mona Hatoum: Bourj, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Mona Hatoum, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany 

2010

Mona Hatoum, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Suspendu, MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val–de–Marne, Vitry–sur–Seine, France
Witness, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Mona Hatoum, Käthe – Kollwitz Prize 2010, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Electrified, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Askeby, Sweden
Le Grand Monde, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
Keeping It Real: Act 3, Current Disturbance,Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2009

Mona Hatoum, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Measures of Entanglement, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CHINA
Hanging Garden, Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
Interior Landscape,Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Undercurrent (red), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Natura Morta, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
Mona Hatoum: Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada

2008

Mona Hatoum,Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
Mona Hatoum,Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Undercurrents, XIII Biennale Donna, Palazzo Massari PAC, Ferrara, Italy
Mona Hatoum, Unhomely, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Mona Hatoum-Hanging Garden, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Present Tense, Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK

2006

Kairotic, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Mona Hatoum, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Mona Hatoum, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Hot Spot, White Cube, London, UK

2005

Over My Dead Body,Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Mobile Home, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Mona Hatoum, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA

2004

Mona Hatoum, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Mona Hatoum, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada

2003

Mona Hatoum, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
Mona Hatoum, Exconvento de Conkal, Yucatan, Mexico
Mona HatoumPhoto and Video Works, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
Artist’s Choice: Mona Hatoum, Here Is Elsewhere, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2002

Mona Hatoum, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
Grater Divide, White Cube, London, UK
Mona Hatoum, Centro de Arte de Salamanca and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mona Hatoum, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

2001

Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezueala
Domestic Disturbance, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA

2000

The Entire World as a Foreign Land, Tate Britain, London, UK
Images from Elsewhere,fig–1, London, UK
Domestic Disturbance, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Le Creux de l’enfer, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Le Collège
, Frac Fonds régional d’art contemporain Champagne and, Ardenne, Reims, France

1999

Mona Hatoum, The Box, Turin, Italy
Mona Hatoum, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Mona Hatoum, ArtPace – A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
Mona HatoumLe Creux de l’enfer, Centre d’art contemporain, Thiers, France and
Mona Hatoum, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

1998

Mona Hatoum, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Measures of Distance, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Over My Dead Body, Der Standard, Museum in Progress, Vienna, Austria
Mona Hatoum, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Mona Hatoum, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK

1997

Mona Hatoum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago(MAC), Illinois, USA
Mona Hatoum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Mona Hatoum, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada

1996

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Present Tense, Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine
Current Disturbance, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
Quarters, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
Mona Hatoum, Craig Bell, Werner Feiersinger & Keiko Sato, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1995

Socle du Monde, White Cube, London, UK
Short Space, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

1994

Mona Hatoum, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
Mona Hatoum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
CRG Gallery, New York, USA

1993

Recent Work,Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Le Socle du Monde, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Positionings/Transpositions (with Barbara Steinman), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1992

Mona Hatoum, Mario Flecha Gallery, London, UK
Dissected Space, Chapter, Cardiff, UK

1989

Mind the Gap (performance), A Space, Toronto, Canada 
The Light at the End, The Showroom, London, UK
The Light at the End, Oboro, Montreal, Canada
Galerie Obscure, Quebec, Canada
Forest City Gallery, London, Canada

1986

911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington, USA

1985

Between the Lines(performance), The Orchard Gallery, Derry, UK 
Variation on Discord and Divisions (performance), Articule, Montreal, Canada

1984

Variation on Discord and Divisions (performance), ABC No Rio, New York and AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, and Western Front, Vancouver, Canada 
The Negotiating Table (Performance)Franklin Furnace, New York, USA

1983

The Negotiating Table (Performance),SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada and Niagara Artists, Centre, St Catharines, Canada, and The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

Momentum, Voorlinden museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands 

2019

Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture 1950 – Present, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
100 Artists in the City, Montpellier, France
Stance & Fall – A Wavering World, Marta Herford, Germany
Heart of Darkness, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin (co-organised by Castello di Rivoli)
Times of Upheaval, Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Spain
There will never be a door. You are inside.Works from Coleção Teixeira de Freitas,
Santander Fundación, Madrid, Spain
Tomorrow is the Question, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Collection of Foundation Louis Vuitton: Selected Works, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
Vern Volume, 22nd Contemporary Art Biennale, Cultural Center of Vern-sur-Seiche, France
Walking through Walls, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
The Everyday and Extraordinary, Towner ArtGallery, Eastbourne, UK

2018

Hope is Strong, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Visions of the Earth / The planned world, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Atlas, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Walls, Museum of Fine Arts Caen, France
No Place Like Home, Museu Colecao Berardo, Lisbon
MoMA AT NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Dime-Store Alchemy, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
The Everyday and Extraordinary, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK 
Herstory: Women Artists from the Collection of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Touchstones Rochdale, UK
Motive/Motif: Artists Commemorate the Suffragettes, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, UK
Memory Palace,White Cube, London, UK
Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives, White Cube Hong Kong, China
Women House, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Motherland in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland
Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund,The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition,Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Ways of Seeing, NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey, Lévy Gorvy, New York, USA
The Precious Clay: Porcelain in Contemporary Art, Museum of Royal Worcester, UK
Open Works, Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
Catastrophe and Reconstruction, Mori Art Museum, Japan
Soundlines Of Contemporary Art: International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cafesjian Center For The Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
Persona Grata, MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-surSeine, France
Revolution Generations, MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Women Power Protest, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, The National Gallery of Singapore and ArtScience Museum, Singapore

2017

Inaugural exhibition of the Palestinian Museum, the Palestinian Museum Birzeit, , Occupied Palestine
Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions in Glass, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
The Place Is Here, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
The Place Is Here, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
The Place Is Here, South London Gallery, UK
Meret Oppenheim: Opere in dialogo da Max Ernst a Mona Hatoum/Meret Oppenheim: Works in Conversation from Max Ernst to Mona Hatoum, Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Italy
No Place Like Home, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine
No Place Like Home, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Tous des sang – mêlés,MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val–de–Marne, Vitry–sur–Seine, France
La Terra Inquieta/The Restless Earth, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy 
Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Affective Operations in Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Gray Matters,Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Ruptures, The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Documenta 14, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece and Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, UK
Jerusalem Lives,The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Occupied palestine
Palestine Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope,Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
In Rebellion. Female Narratives in the Arab World, Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
Arte Povera and British Artists, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK
Sanctuary, Fort Mason Chapel, San Francisco, USA
Age of Terror: Art since 9/11,Imperial War Museum, London, UK
From Me to Us: the City without Borders,Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
Like a Moth to a Flame, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy
HomeBeirut: Sounding the Neighbours,National Museum of the XXI Century (MAXXI), Rome, Italy
Welcome to Jerusalem,Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany 
Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago(MAC), Illinois, USA

2016

Life Is Not a Beach, Alexander Tutsek–Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Do It, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain
Earth and Ever After, 21, 39, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Not New Now, Marrakech Biennale 6, Morocco
The 1980s: Today’s Beginnings?, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
The House of Impressions: Classic and Contemporary Media Art, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Found,Foundling Museum, London, UK
Sans papiers – Das Leben ist eine Reise, Kurt–Kurt, Berlin, Germany
The Dark Side of the Moon, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
What Is Left?, frei_raum Q21, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria
Hinter dem Vorhang. Verhullung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance: Von Tizian bis Christo/Behind the Curtain: Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance: From Titian to Christo,Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Uncertain States: Künstlerisches Handeln in Ausnahmezuständen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Vivre!!, Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
Political Intent and Beyond Limits, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Desperate Housewives? Künstlerinnen räumen auf, Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Germany
Desperate Housewives? Künstlerinnen räumen auf, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany 
Desperate Housewives? Künstlerinnen räumen auf, Städtische Galerie Villengen–Schwenningen, Germany
Desperate Housewives? Künstlerinnen räumen auf, Staatliches Textil und Industriemuseum, Germany 
Home Ground, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

2015

Into Dust: Traces of the Fragile in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy 
Schlaflos: Das Bett in Geschichte und Gegenwartskunt/Sleepless: Beds in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now,The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA and The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Lest the Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Rastros y Vestigios: indagaciones sobre el presente, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Rastros y Vestigios: indagaciones sobre el presente, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Rastros y Vestigios: indagaciones sobre el presente, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico 
Arts & Foods Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy 
Under the Clouds: from Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Museu Serralves, Porto, Italy
Desperate Housewives? Künstlerinnen räumen auf, Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany
Global Imaginations,De Meelfabriek, Leiden, Netherlands
2050: Une brève histoire de l’avenir,Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Like a Prayer, Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now,Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Stance or Distance?,Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Museo Riso and Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo, Italy
How Space Turns, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany

2014

Neighbours: Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond,Istanbul Modern, Turkey
Lens – Based Sculpture: The Transformation of the Concept of Sculpture through Photography,Akademie der Künste, Berlin, FGermany and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Ravage: Kunst en erfgoed in tijden van conflict/Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict, M – Museum Leuven, Belgium
La disparition des lucioles, Prison Saint–Anne, Avignon, France
Les désastres de la guerre 1800–2014, Louvre – Lens, Pas–de–Calais, France
Mind the Map, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
Good Morning Mr. Orwell, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin–si, South Korea
Ombra, Polvere e Una Promessa di Futuro/Shadow, Dust and a Promise of Future, Sale di Complesso di Sant’Agostino and Piazza del Duomo, Pietrasanta, Italy
Zeichen gegen den Krieg: Antikriegsplastik von Lehmbruck bis heute,Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Synthesis, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Mark the Line, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dead Reckoning: Whorled Explorations, Kochi–Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
Kunst & Textil – Stoff als Material und Idee in der Moderne von Klimt bis heute/Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950,Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

2013

Ici, ailleurs/Here, elsewhere, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille , France
Homelands, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi, India
Homelands,The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Calcutta, India
Homelands, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
Homelands, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore, India(British Council touring exhibition)
Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain, Institute of International Visual Arts, London and Tate Liverpool, UK
Fragile?, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
So Much I Want to Say: From Annemiek to Mother Courage, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Material World, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Le pont,Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Glasstress: White Light/White Heat,Palazzo Cavalli–Franchetti, Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA (co – organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
When Now Is Minimal: Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Neues Museum, Nuremburg, Germany
Drone: The Automated Image, Le Mois de la photo à Montreal, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada
Iskele 2: The Unanswered Question, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and TANAS, Berlin, Germany
More Light, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia
De Anatomische Les: Van Rembrandt tot Damien Hirst/Anatomy Lesson: From Rembrandt to Damien Hirst, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Kunst & Textil – Stoff als Material und Idee in der Moderne von Klimt bis heute/Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
Le Surréalisme et l’objet, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Remember Everything: 40 Years, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, France
Wall Works, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
In Order to Join, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Lines of Control, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Gnadenlos: Witz Ironie Satire Sarkasmus– Künstlerinnen und das Komische/Merciless: Wit Irony Satire Sarcasm– Female Artists and the ComicalPaula Modersohn – Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany 

2012

Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Rasterfahndung, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
ZOO,Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
La vie des formes, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society in the Middle East, Princeton University, Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (organised by the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers University)
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium
The Unexpected Guest, 7th Liverpool Biennial, UK
Double Take, 2nd Mardin Biennale, Turkey
Gnadenlos: Witz Ironie Satire Sarkasmus– Künstlerinnen und das Komische/Merciless: Wit Irony Satire Sarcasm– Female Artists and the Comical, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece 
Medals of Dishonour, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2011

Crisisss… América Latina, arte y confrontación 1910–2010, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Heroínas/Heroines,Museo Thyssen – Bornemisza y Fundación Caja Madrid, Spain
L’art de Menjar (Eating Art),La Pedrera, Barcelona (organised by Fundació Caixa Catalunya), Spain
The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Women War Artists, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, Meeting Points 6, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, MAKAN, Amman, Jordan
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
The Future of a Promise,Magazzini del Sale, Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
Disquieting Muses, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki – State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece
Beirut, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
Jean Genet, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Erre, variations labyrinthiques, Centre Pompidou – Metz, France
Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Voyage en Orient, from Pierre Loti to Nan Goldin, Galerie d’art du conseil général des Bouches–du–Rhône, Aix–en–Provence, France
Dance/Draw, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dance/Draw, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
On/Off Language, The Jerusalem Show V (organised by Al – Ma’mal Foundation), Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine
Le Retour, 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algiers, Musée d’art moderne d’Alger, Algiers

2010

The Visceral Body, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
A Feast for the Eyes: Food in Still Life, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Che cosa sono le nuvole? Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Fall Out: War and Conflict in the British Council Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Glück happens, Kunstpalais, Stadt Erlangen, Germany
Tutto è connesso/Everything is connected, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Hope!,Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The New Décor, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Mona Hatoum, Stefan Kürten and Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Yesterday Will Be Better: Taking Memory into the Future, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Contemporary Art in Patios of Quito, Convento San Agustin, Quito, Ecuador
Terre Vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Il Coraggio: Arte contemporanea dalla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Centro Saint – Bénin, Aosta, Italy

2009

The Power of Ornament, Orangerie, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Accrochage,Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Pot Luck, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; Aberystwyth Art Centre and Pisthanger Manor Gallery & House, London, UK
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
REBELLE: Art and Feminism 1969–2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
Glasstress, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti – Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
Surrealism and Contemporary Art: Subversive Spaces, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Surrealism and Contemporary Art: Subversive Spaces, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Medals of Dishonour, British Museum, London, UK
Platform in KIMUSA: Void of Memory, Platform 2009, The Old DSC (Defense Security Command) Site, Seoul
British Subjects: Identity and Self – Fashioning 1967–2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, USA
Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded,Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
The Sky Within My House: Contemporary Art in Patios of Cordoba, Patio de la Cancela, Cordoba, Spain
Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin – Gropius – Bau, Berlin, Germany
Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Barock, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
Twelve Travels British Art in Sensibility and Experience, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Political/Minimal, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

2008

Genesis: The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee in BernMartian Museum of
Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Twelve Travels British Art in Sensibility and Experience, Tochigi Prefectural, Japan
Twelve Travels British Art in Sensibility and Experience, Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Twelve Travels British Art in Sensibility and Experience, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Twelve Travels British Art in Sensibility and Experience, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Morning After: Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Being Here: Mapping the Contemporary, Bucharest Biennale 3, Romania
Ekko Echo Ecco, U – TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Close – Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Never – Part: Histories of Palestine, BOZAR – Palais des Beaux–Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The Impossible Prison, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham UK (organised by Nottingham Contemporary)
Depletion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Occupied Palestine
Heavy Metal: On the Inexplicable Lightness of a Material, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Political/Minimal, Kunst – Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Canada

2007

2Move, Sala Verónicas y Centro Párraga, Murcia, Spain
2Move, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, Netherlands
2Move, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
2Move, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County Meath, Ireland
2Move, Belfast Exposed, Ireland
Turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
L’emprise du lieu, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
STILL LIFE: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennale 8, United Arab Emirates
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, DC, USA
Capricci: Possibilités d’autres mondes, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Dialogues méditerranéens à Saint–Tropez, Parcours artistiques de l’été culturel, Citadelle de Saint–Tropez, France
Border Jam: La Cuadratura del Cono, Museo de Bellas Artes Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay; Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; La Moneda Palace Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile
There is no border...,Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Annisettanta: Il decennio lungo del secolo breve, La Triennale di Milano, Italy
Gehen bleiben: Bewgung, Körper, Ort in der Kunst der Ggenwart/Going Staying: Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Timer 01 Intimità/Intimacy, Fondazione Triennale di Milano, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
D’ombra, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
D’ombra, Compton Verney, UK
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990–2006, Capital Museum, Beijing, China (British Council touring exhibition) 
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures,Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, DC, USA
New Media/New Materials - Highlights in Contemporary Art from the Fabric, Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

2006

Kairotic: Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Karim Rashid,Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Conversations = Hadith, Sfeir – Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon 
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference,Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK (Hayward Touring exhibition)
Around the World in Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Into Me/Out of Me, MoMA PS1, New York, USA; Kunst – Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Polemos,Forte di Gavi, Gavi, Italy
Drei Farben – BLAU, XIII Rohkunstbau, Wasserschloss Groß Leuthen, Groß Leuthen, Germany
Out of Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Confini, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
D’ombra, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books, and Multiples, 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Diagnosis [Art]: Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
The 80s: A Topology, Museu Serralves, Porto, Lisbon
Super Vision,Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990–2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures,Tufts University Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Massachusetts, USA

2005

Desenhos: A – Z/Drawings: A – Z, Porta 33, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
The Body: Art & Science, National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm
Some Stories: Women Artists from Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Algeria, and Palestine,Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna and Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria
Works on Paper,Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
The Treason of Sculpture,Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal
Always a little Further, 51st Venice Biennial, Italy
Panopticon: The Architecture and Theatre of Prison, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
The Real Me. London in Six Easy Steps: Six Curators, Six Weeks, Six Perspectives, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA and McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
On Both Sides of the Rhine – Movement, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Guardami. Percezione del Video, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Non Toccare la Donna Bianca – Arte Contemporanea fra diversità e liberazione, Castel dell’Ovo Museum, Naples, Italy

2004

Made in Mexico/Hecho en Mexico, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, USA; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Das große Fressen: Von Pop bis heute, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Laocoon Devoured: Art. Politics. Violence, Artium, Centro – Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria–Gasteiz, Spain; Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain and DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Transcultures, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Love It or Leave It, Cetinje Biennial V, Montenegro, Uruguay
Non Toccare la Donna Bianca – Arte Contemporanea fra diversità e liberazione, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Cordially Invited, Basis voor actuele kunst and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
From Moore to Hirst: Sixty Years of British Sculpture, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
Incommunicado, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK (Hayward Touring exhibition)
Incommunicado, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Hayward Touring exhibition)

2003

M_ARS: Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Micro/Macro: British Art, 1996–2002 ,Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Banquete: Metabolism and Communication, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
Il Racconto del filo: Ricamo e cucito nell’arte contemporanea, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
©EUROPE EXISTS, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Migration,Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Incommunicado, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (Hayward Touring exhibition)
Flesh Art, Abattoir of Prato Cultural Centre, Italy
Images of Society, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

2002

Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Another World: 12 Bedroom Stories, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
40 Jahre: Fluxus und Die Folgen, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
The Benefit of Art: Postfeminist Positions from the Goetz Collection, Kunsthalle Baden–Baden, Germany
Sculpture, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Comer o no comer/To eat or not to eat,Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
Imagine, you are standing here in front of me,Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 
In weiter Ferne, so nah, neue palästinensische kunst, IFA – Galerie Berlin, Germany
Minimal Maximal, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Material World:From Lichtenstein to Viola, 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Australia

2001

El Instante Eterno/The Eternal Instant: Art and Spirituality at the Change of the Millennium, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain
Field Day: Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
(Self) Portraits, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
El Mundo Nuevo/The New World, Bienal de Valencia, Spain
The Mediterranean: A New Wall?, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
In weiter Ferne, so nah, neue palästinensische kunst, IFA – Galerie Bonn and IFA – Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
Il Dono: Offerta Ospitalita Insidia/The Gift: Generous OfferingsThreatening Hospitality,Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy and Centro Cultural Candiani, Mestre, Italy
Minimal Maximal, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
Minimal Maximal, National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2001; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant – Garde, 1801–2001, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain

2000

Sincerely Yours, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Friends and Neighbours, 4th EV+A Biennial, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Out There,White Cube, London, UK
Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London, UK
Orbis Terrarum, Antwerpen Open, Museum Plantin – Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
La forma del mondo/la fine del mondo, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Vision and Reality,Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
MAN: Body in Art from 1950–2000,Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
No es solò lo que ves. Pervirtiendo el minimalismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant – Garde, 1801–2001, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900–2000, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland

1999

Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant – Garde, 1801–2001, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore,Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria 
Looking for a Place,SITE Santa Fe Biennial III, New Mexico, USA
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900–2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Das XX. Jahrhundert: ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland,Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
Art Worlds in Dialogue: From Gauguin to the Global Present, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
54 x 54 x 54, Financial Times Building, London, UK
Real/Life: New British Art, Ashiya City Museum of Art History, Japan
Minimal Maximal,Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection,Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA 

1998

Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Close Echoes, Public Body & Artificial Eye,GHMP Gallery Prague City Gallery, Czech Republic
Close Echoes, Public Body & Artificial Eye,Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Real/Life: New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan; Fukuoka City Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Traversées/Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Fundacao Biennial São Paulo, Brazil
Minimal Maximal, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden–Baden, Germany
Emotion: Young British and American Artists from the Goetz Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
7th International Cairo Biennale, Egypt
Engel: Engel, The Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

1997

De – Genderism: détruire dit – elle/il, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN
Artistes Palestiniens contemporains, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 80s and 90s, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
A Quality of Light,Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK (organised by Iniva, initiated by St Ives International)
Engel: Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Changing Spaces: Artists’ Projects from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; CU Galleries, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado; City Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, and Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
The Quiet in the Land, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Oregon and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 
Unmapping the Earth, 2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea 
Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Trash: Quando i rifiuti diventano arte, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy 
Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art from the UK: Part 1, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Rachel Whiteread, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Inside the Visible, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

1996

Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA
Inside the Visible, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Maps Elsewhere, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
Feed and Greed, Östereichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Dimensions, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Fremdkörper/Corps étranger/Foreign Body, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
The Art Embodied, Musée d’art contemporain de Marseille, France
Toyama Now ’96, The Sixth International Contemporary Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Sabbathday Lake Shaker community, Maine, USA
Shopping, Soho Art Festival, Jerry’s restaurant, New York, USA 
Inclusion: Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst ’96, Graz, Austria 
Life/Live: La scène artistique au Royaume – Uni en 1996, de nouvelles aventures, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France and Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal 
Inside the Visible: Begin the Beguine in Flanders, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 60s and 90s, Brighton University, UK; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)

1995

ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Körper formen, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany
Identity and Alterity, Italian Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennial, Italy
Rites of Passage, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Here and Now: Twenty – Five Years of British Sculpture from 1970 to the Present,Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Fémininmasculin, le sexe de l’art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Turner Prize 1995, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Orient/ation, 4th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Forces of Change: Artists of the Arab World, Wolfson Gallery and Central Gallery, Miami Dade College, Florida, USA and Gwinnett Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

1994

Forces of Change: Artists of the Arab World, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA; Dudley House, Lehman Hall, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Espacios Fragmentados, 5th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Le Saut dans le Vide, TsDKh Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Inside the Visible: Begin the Beguine in Flanders, Beguinage of Saint Elizabeth, Kortrijk, Belgium
Sense and Sensibility: Women and Minimalism in the Nineties, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Ik + de Ander: Art and the Human Condition, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Super Suburb, Museum City Tenjin ’94, Fukuoka, Japan
Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo,Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, USA
Le Shuttle,Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 60s and 90s, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Humanism and Technology, 600 Seoul International Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Heart of Darkness, Kröller – Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1993

Four Rooms, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Grazer Combustion, Steirischer Herbst ’93 Festival, Graz, Austria
Witness,Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Oakville Galleries; Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
Eros, c’est la vie, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Tyne International 1993, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Shifting Paradigms/Modèles Mouvants: Contemporary Canadian Video Art, V Tape Video and Orality, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Andrea Fisher and Mona Hatoum: Hard Furnishing, South London Gallery, London, UK

1992

Pour la Suite du Monde, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Manifeste, 30 ans de création en perspective 1960–1990, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fine Material for a Dream...?Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK; Ferons Museum and Art Gallery, Hull, UK; Oldham Art Gallery, UK
Brit Art, 11 Britische Künstler, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Who Do You Take Me For?,Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Cutting Edge, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Interrogating Identity, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Madison Art Centre, Wisconsin, USA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Passages de l’image, San Francisco Modern Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

1991

4th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Shocks to the System, Foyer Galleries, Royal Festival Hall, London; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK; Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, UK (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)
Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York, USA and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The Interrupted Life, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
The Hybrid State, Exit Art, New York, USA
Passages de l’image, Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
Passages de l’image, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, USA
Passages de l’image, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Intimate Distance: Five Female Artists, Cambridge Darkroom, UK and Bluecoat Gallery, and Liverpool, UK

1990

Video and Myth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 
The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Changing the Subject, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
New Art for Newcastle, Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle upon Tyne (TSWA Four Cities Project), UK 
Passages de l’image, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Disrupted Identities, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA 
Territories of Distance, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
Intimate Distance: Five Female Artists, Plymouth Arts Centre; Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton, UK, and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK

1989

Intimate Distance: Five Female Artists,The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK and Wigan Arts College, UK
Uprising, Artists Space, New York, USA
The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, Manchester City Art Gallery, UK, and Conerhouse, Manchester, UK 
Rétrospective Mona Hatoum, 5e Festival International de Films et Vidéos de Femmes de Montréal, Canada 
3rd Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, UK,; Greenwich Citizen’s Gallery, London, UK

1988

The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Gallery, London, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK; Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK; Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton, UK; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, UK
Nationalism: Women and the State(performance), A Space, Toronto, Canada
Siting Technology, McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Metro Billboard Project ’88, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK UK; Manchester, UK; Sheffield, UK; Leeds, UK; London, and Derry (Projects UK touring exhibition)
EDGE ’88, International Experiment in Art, Clerkenwell, London, UK
Installations, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK and Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
In an Unsafe Light, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Along the Lines of Resistance, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, UK, Rochdale Art Gallery, UK

1987

Forced Flight(performance), Chisenhale Dance Space,London, UK
At the Edge, Air Gallery, London, UK
Figures (performance), Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, Milton Keynes Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre, UK
Confrontations: The Role of Controversy in Art, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, and the Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
Trans – Positions, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
A Week of Performance (performance), Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, UK 
National Review of Live Art (performance), Riverside Studios, London, UK
New Work: No Definition (performance), Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK
Siting Technology, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
The Elusive Sign: British Avant – Garde Film and Video 1977–1987, Tate Gallery, London, UK and international tour 
Dislocations (performance), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

1986

Position Suspended (Performance), New Work, Newcastle 86Projects UK, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK  
On Target(performance), Live Video, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands         
Streets alive,performance festival in the streets of Sheffield, UK
Identity/Desire, Representing the Body, (Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition); Collins Gallery; University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum; Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, and Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, UK
Conceptual Clothing (performance), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
Next: Tomorrow, Cambridge Darkroom and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK 
Third World Within,Brixton art Gallery, London, UK
Je est un autre, Galerij van de Akademie, Waasmunster, Belgium 
Tara Babel, Carly Reedy and Mona Hatoum: Three Women Performance Artists (performance), Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK 
Live Video(performance), Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

1985

Dazzling Phrases, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
Real Time(performance), organized by Audio Arts, The Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Roadworks, a series of performances in the streets of Brixton, London, UK
Art and Research Exchange(performance), Belfast, UK            
Kunst Mit Eigen-Sinn, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1984

2nd International Festival of Performance, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK 
Women’s Performance(performance), Rochdale Art Gallery, UK 

1983

Bridewell Studios (performance) , Liverpool, UK
The Radiator (performance), Manchester, UK
Blind Dates (performance), The Blackie, Liverpool, UK 
Wiencouver IV, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

1982

Woman Live (performance),London Filmmakers Co-op, London, UK
Reflections (performance), London Musicians Collective, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK  

1981

Gender Views (performance), C London Filmmakers’ Co–op, London, UK
New Contemporaries ’81(performance), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK 
Basement Gallery (performance), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
Summer Show ’81, London Filmmakers’ Co–op, UK

1980

Coventry Events Week (with Paul Jackson), Lanchester Gallery, University of Coventry, UK
Five Days at Battersea, (performance), Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK
Summer Show ’80, (performance), London Film – Makers’ Co – op, UK

1979

Three Slade Performances: Paul Jackson, Mona Hatoum, David O’Connor, (performance), Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
White Room (performance), Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Selected Awards

2018

Art Icon 2018, Whitechapel Gallery, London; 1st Trobades Albert Camus Award, Sant Lluís, Spain; 4th Ruth Baumgarte Award, Bielefeld, Germany 

2017

10th Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 2016: School of the Museum of Fine Arts Medal Award, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2011

Joan Miró Prize, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

2010

Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters), University of Southampton; Käthe – Kollwitz – Preis 2010, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2009

Creative Arts Fellowship, Bellagio Center – The Rockefeller Foundation, Lake Como, Italy 

2008

Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters), American University of Beirut; Rolf Schock Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Ismail Shammout Prize, Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine 

2007

Honorary Fellowship, University of the Arts London, UK

2004

Sonning Prize, University of Copenhagen; Roswitha Haftmann Stiftung Prize, Zurich 

2000

George Maciunas Prize, Wiesbaden, Germany

1997

Honorary Fellowship, Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK 

1995

Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, UK

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Saradar Collection, Beirut, Lebanon
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
The Birzeit University collection, Ramallah, Occupied Palestine
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Darat El Funun, Amman, Jordan
British Museum, London, UK
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
The British Council Collection, UK
Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Fondazione Querini Onlus, Venice, Italy
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Pays de Loire, France
Musée national d’art moderne, (Centre Georges Pompidou), Paris, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Gugenheim, New York, USA
The Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, USA
Museum of fine arts, Boston, USA
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Museum of Modern Art Toyama, Japan
Collection De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisia

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