Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbaniyeh, Lebanon. He immigrated to the United States in 1982, fleeing the mounting violence of the Lebanese Civil War, and earned his BFA in photography in 1989...
WALID RAAD, Lebanon (1967)
Bio
Written by Wafa Roz & L’Or Imane Puymartin
Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbaniyeh, Lebanon. He immigrated to the United States in 1982, fleeing the mounting violence of the Lebanese Civil War, and earned his BFA in photography in 1989 from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. In 1996, the artist earned a PhD in cultural and visual studies from the University of Rochester. He is currently a professor at Cooper Union, an elite school of art in New York. Two years after the Lebanese civil war ended in 1990, Raad returned to Lebanon for one year and encountered the emerging postwar art scene. He collaborated with the Canadian-Lebanese artist Jace Salloum on the documentary Up to the South(1993), a 60-minute film investigating the modes in which local fighters, villagers and intellectuals expressed their opposition to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. He was also inspired by the work of writer and video artist Jalal Toufic, whose work reflects on trauma, memory, and the departure of culture. Toufic dedicated his celebrated book, The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009) to Raad.
His first major body of work, The Atlas Group(1989-2004) is indicative of Raad’s interests in exploiting the grey zone between certainty and doubt to explore historiography, trauma, and the absurdity of war. The Atlas Group is a fictional archive that researches, documents and reflects on the dynamics of the Lebanese war. This body of work includes both historical and reconstructed documents, notebooks, collages, photographs and films appropriated or produced by the artist himself. He used fiction and trickery in shaping his documents, yet their inauthenticity is not always apparent, drawing the viewer to productively question the authority of the archive and the place of truth in reflecting on past trauma. To further blur the line between fact and fiction, he re-dated and attributed his works to an array of fictitious characters such as the historian Dr. Fakhoury, the hostage Souheil Bachar, the artist Suha Traboulsi and others who in turn, supposedly, donated these works to “The Atlas Group.” These photographs and documents were later meticulously presented in multimedia installations, often followed by talks carefully prepared by the artist.
Departing from the Atlas Group, and reflecting on the idea of a surpassing disaster, Raad creates his second major body of work, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow(2007 - ongoing). It is a correlated series of photographs, videos, sculptures, installations, and performative presentations that investigate the infrastructure of art in the Arab world through the scope of political, social, economic, and military conflicts in the region. He illustrates how Arab art history is being forged within this infrastructure, questioning corporate and cultural investments in the category of “Arab art.” Scratching on Things I Could Disavowis marked by narratives of absence and withdrawal – ironically depicted in the disappearance and shrinking of art works. While this project has been considered to satirize the recent upcropping of (largely Western) museums in the Arab world, Scratching’s further objective is to ponder the supremacy and authority of ideologies created by a superstructure, asking how an idea becomes a ruling one through economic and socio-psychological channels. In this body of work, he produces theatrical installations, positing the “white cube” or neoclassical arena of the art museum as a stage for his presentations. The artist calls these lecture-performances “walkthroughs,” assuming what art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty has called a “para-fictional persona” as he educates his audience.
Raad’s performative and object-based work seeks to draw attention to the unnoticed, navigating between the public sphere of “found” facts and the private sphere of constructed ones to broaden his audience’s conception of truth. His works can be understood in relation to the oeuvres of conceptual artists such as Fred Wilson and Michael Asher, the postmodern appropriations of Sherrie Levine and Louise Lawler, and to the performative strategies of Joseph Beuys and Sophie Calle amongst others.
Raad lives and works in New York.
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Raad, Walid. “The Atlas Group.” The Atlas Group. Accessed September 7, 2017. http://www.theatlasgroup.org
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Walid Raad: Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut), UK Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Walid Raad: Another Festival of (In)gratitude, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Walid Raad: Cotton Under My Feet: The Zurich Chapter, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2023
Walid Raad: Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapte, Hamburger, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2022
Walid Raad: We have never been so populated, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Chelsea, USA
Walid Raad: We Lived So Well Together, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2021
WALID RAAD – WE CAN MAKE RAIN BUT NO ONE CAME TO ASK, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, La Maison des Arts, Schaerbeek, Belgium
Walid Raad: Cotton Under My Feet, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
2020
Sweet Talks, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Let’s be Honest, the Weather Helped, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Let’s be Honest, the Weather Helped, Stedejlik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Walid Raad, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
2018
Walid Raad: Selections from the Atlas Group, (screening), Bar Laika, Brooklyn, New York, US
2017
Yet Another Letter to the Reader, Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy
Walid Raad:Better be Watching the Clouds, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US; Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Walid Raad: SweetTalk: Commissions (Beirut 1994),Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2016
Walid Raad, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
Walid Raad, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Letter to the Reader, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Those did are near. Those that are far, SITU Studio at Stomein Synagogue, Germany
Walid Raad: Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
One Wall, One Work, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
2015
Walid Raad, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2014
Walid Raad. Carré d’Art, Musée d’art Contemporain, Nîmes, France
Walid Raad: Prefazione, Museo MADRE, Napoli, Italy
Walid Raad: Postface, University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Postface, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Preface to the First English Edition, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
31st Sao Paulo Biennial: How to Talk About Things That Don’t Exist, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
Préface à la Première Édition, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2012
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2011
Walid Raad – 2011 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Foundation, Hasselblad Center at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
2010
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow. A History of Art in the ArabWorld, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings, Kunsthalie Zürich, Switzerland
Miraculous Beginnings, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
SweetTalk: Commissions (Beirut), Camera, Austria
2009
The Atlas Group (1989-2004), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, Part 1_Volume 1_Chapter 1: Beirut (1992–2005), REDCAT, Los Angeles; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US; Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2008
A History of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art: Part I_Chapter 1: Beirut (1992-2005), Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
I Might Die Before I Get a Rifle, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany
We Can Make Rain But No One Came to Ask, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island, US
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Selections from the Atlas Group, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
2007
We Decided to Let Them Say "We are Convinced" Twice (It was More Convincing this Way), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
The Atlas Group (1989-2004): A Project by Walid Raad, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico-City, Mexico
2006
Let’s Be Honest, The Weather Helped, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
The Atlas Group (1989-2004): A Project by Walid Raad, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, The Kitchen, New York, US
We Can Make It Rain But No One Came to Ask: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
We Decided to Let Them Say "We are Convinced" Twice (It was More Convincing this Way), Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US
2005
I Was Overcome with a Momentary Panic, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Funny, How Thin the Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, FACT, Liverpool, UK
We Are A Fair People, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2004
My Neck is Thinner Than a Hair: Engines, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
I was Overcome with a Momentary Panic, AGYU, York University, Toronto, Canada
The Truth Will Be Known When the Last Witness is Dead: Documents from the Fakhouri File in the Atlas Group, Prefix Institute, Toronto, Canada; Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, US
2003
The Complete Fakhouri File, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
The Truth Will Be Known When the Last Witness is Dead: Documents from the Fakhouri File in the Atlas Group, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France
World Wide Solo: Walid Raad- The Atlas Group Project, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1985
Walid Raad: Photographs, Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Books, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
A Model: An exhibition in three parts, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Genossin Sonne, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
Collection Variable, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul, South Korea
For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960, The Warehouse, Texas, USA
The World We Live In, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid, Spain
Ashkal Alwan: Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut), Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
Tongues of Fire, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
The Circle Was A Point, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The Circle Was a Point, Foundry Downtown Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Normopathies. Works from the Es Baluard Museu Collectio, Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2023
To Your Eternity: The 4th Future Of Today Biennale, Today Art Museum, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
So It Appears, The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
60 Years of Collecting: An anniversary exhibition celebrating the UMCA Permanent Art Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Lines in Four Directions over 450 Years, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New acquisitions by the Photography Committee, Musée d'Art Moderne de, Paris, France
Water, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Contemporary Antiquity, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Homosphere, Homosphere, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art of Today, Mostyn, Wales, UK
Give and Take, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Exiled At Home, Vtape, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vedo Rosso, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland
Unruly Archives, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
2021
Sfeir-Semler Gallery presents Fleeting Matter, GB Agency, Paris, France
Carte Blanche: A Changing Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
No More Than Three Other Times, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Chelsea, USA
Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, Tai Kwun, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
Artists’ Library: 1989–2021, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Low Visibility, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Precaution, ARTER, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
The Real and the Record. Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2021, MOMus Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin, Germany
2020
A Bottomless Silence, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
Biennial Of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Walid Raad, Etel Adnan & Rayyane Tabet: A Sun Yellow With Anger, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Collection: From The Post-war Period To The Contemporary Era, Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2019
Time, Forward!V-A-C Zattere, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
Konkrete Gegenwart, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Conspiratorial Aesthetics, Cressmen Center for Visual Arts, Kentucky, US
Dot, Point, Period., Castelli Gallery, New York, US
Where the Oceans Meet, Museum of Art and Design, Miami, US
Home is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, the Met Breuer, New York, US
Non-Vicious Circle, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
2018
Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
Camera Austria International. Laboratory for Photography and Theory, Camera Austria, Mönchsberg, Austria
Revolution Generations, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
SHINE ON ME. We and the sun, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Acts of Translation, Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan
The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale, South Korea
Ausstellen des Ausstellens, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Statues Also Die, Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino, Italy
Mobile Worlds On the Migration of Things in Transcultural SocietiesMuseum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
General Rehearsal: A Show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Turbulencias, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
Debt, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Occupied Palestine
Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print, James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, US
2017
Mario Merz Award Shortlist (with Suha Traboulsi), Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
What We Know that We Don't Know, Kadist, San Fransisco, US
The Principle of Uncertainty, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
Ways of Seeing, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey
Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors, MAXXI Rome, Italy
Many Tongues: Art, Language, and Revolution in the Middle East and South Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Works from the Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Field Guide, Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada
Hämatli & Patrice, MUSEION of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Manipulate the World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, Bard College, New York, US
Inaugural Exhibition, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, US
2016
The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Question the Wall Itself, Walker Arts Center, Minnesota, US
Transcultural Flux, TrAP, Oslo, Norway
WITNESS, Kent Fine Art, New York, US
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, US
Centennial Exhibition: The Arts Club of Chicago at 100, Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois, US
Nothing but blue skies, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
Those that are near. Those that are far, with Situ Studio, Stommeln Synagogue, Pulheim, Germany
The Time is Out of Joint, Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out, Denver Art Museum, US
2015
An Imagined Museum Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, France
Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
A Republic of Art – French Regional Collections of Contemporary Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
How to (...) things that don’t exist, Serralves Museu De Arte Contemporãnea, Porto, Portugal
Future Light: Escaping Transparency, MAK, Vienna, Austria
The Biography of Things, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Conflict, Time, Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Dissolving Margins, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Lest The Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
On Remote Control 1, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany
2014
Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, US
Histories: Works from the Serralves Collection, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
A Guest Without a Host is a Ghost, The Kadist Collection in Residency, Cairo, Egypt
La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France
Blue Times, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
Art/Histories, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Switzerland
Someone Like Me, Murray Guy, New York, US
Une Histoire, Art, Architecture et Design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Memory Palace, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Where are we Now? Biennial 5, Morocco
2013
Jonathan Borofsky, Sam Durant, Charles Gaines, Liz Glynn, Wayne Gonzales, Hans Haacke, Walid Raad, Carey Young, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Living with War, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Document, Peninsula Arts, Devon, UK
Reality is Not Enough, CAC Media Artlab, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Speak, Memory, The Wallach Art Gallery, New York, US
Doris Duke’s Shangri La, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, US
In progress - Works from the MUMOK Collection, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Home Works 6, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
A Different Kind of Order, The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, US
Reality Fiction, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Still Life/Work Life: From the Hasselblad Foundation Collection, Hasselblad Center, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Méchaniques des Fluides (Naviguer, Transporter, Filmer), Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Resurrection, Aichi Triennial 2013, Japan
2012
The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook, MoMA, New York, US
MoMA Media Lounge, MoMA, New York, US
dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
Ray: Making History, MMK Frankfurt, Germany
Springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
Walid Raad and David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Fremde überall- Foreigners everywhere, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Austria
Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
_RAY: MAKING HISTORY_, MMK Frankfurt, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany
Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
The Curator’s Egg, Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Sophie Calle, Christian Marclay, Paul Pleiffer, Walid Raad, Michael Sailstorfer, Carey Young, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Mind the Gap, Kent Fine Art, New York, US
Amman Journal: Public, Space, Art.,Forum Schlossplatz Aarau, Switzerland
2011
ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in collaboration with Sammlung Falckenberg, Spain
The Uncanny Familiar. Images of Terror, C/O Berlin, Germany
Wunder Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4, Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Art Festival Krems, Austria
Wild Sky, Edith Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain Collection, Spain
Art Festival of the Arts / Hall of the Schaerbeck, Brussels, Belgium
Until It Makes Sense, Kadist, Paris, France
10 Theses of Architecture, Pacific Meridian: International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries, Vladivostok, Russia
Museum Show: Part 1, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Unheimlich vertraut, Bilder vom Terror, Berlin, Germany
Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Politics is Personal 2011,Stonescape, Calistoga, US
Antiphotojournalism, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Show: David Austen, Mark Wallinger, Walid Raad, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthali, Spanga, Sweden
All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism, Derby QUAD, London, UK
Alias, Krakow Photomonth Festival 2011, Poland
BLINK! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, US
4thMoscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Plot for a Biennale, Sharjah Biennale 10, Sharjah, UAE
2010
Festival d’Automne, Paris, France
Told | Untold | Retold, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Social Documents the Ethics of Encounter, Stills: Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland
From Aniconism to Bliss: Media art shows its Islamic roots, DIM Cinema, Pacific Cinematheque Theater, Vancouver, Canada
Media City Seoul 2010 (The 6thSeoul International Media Art Biennale): Trust, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Art of War, CEPA Gallery, New York, US
Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Ohio, US
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum (An Anniversary Benefit Exhibition), Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Ground Level: Curatorial Open II_, Hayward Touring Exhibition, UK
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/ Video/ Performance, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, US
Reprise, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
A Vernicular of Violence: Eric Baudelaire, Rita Sobral Campos, Claire Fontaine, Lisa Krik, Sylvère Lotringer, and Walid Raad, Invisible Exports, US
Màrgenes de Silencio, Centro de Artes Visuales de Càceres, Fundaciòn Helga de Alvear, Spain
The Future of Tradition- the Tradition of Future 100 years after the Exhibition “Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art”, Munich, Germany
The Lucid Evidence. Fotographie aus der Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Modern Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany
2009
Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Berliner Festspiele, Germany
Darkside II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Commentary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
Suns Neither Rise Nor Set, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2008
Art Now in Lebanon, Amman, Jordan
Car Culture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, US
Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, US
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard Galleries and the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
Other Certainties, Bethel University’s New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, US
Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US
Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Brave New Worlds, organized by Walker Art Center, Fudación Colección Jimex, Mexico
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York, US
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada; Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal; The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Lügen.nirgends. Zwischen Fiktion, Dokumentation und Wirklichkeit, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Münster, Germany
Nichs zu deklararien, 4 Triennale Zeitgenössische Kunst, Oberschwaben, Germany
Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics., The Amy and Tom James Gallery, New York, US
Scène du Sud II. Méditérannée Orientale, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art Contemporain, Nîmes, France
Mediterraneo 2008, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy
U-Turn: Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Nikolaj Kunsthallen, Copenhangen, Denmark
Éclats de frontières, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur, France
Curating Architecture, The Showroom, London, UK
2Move: Migratory Aesthetics, Solstice Arts Center, Navan; Belfast, Ireland
2007
Photographs, New Acquisitions, 2003-2007, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Deutsche Borse Photography Prize,The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, US; Fundacion Coleccion Jimex, Mexico
Distorted Fabric, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Documentos. La memoria del futuro, San Sebastian; Museo de Arte Contemporeano de Vigo, Spain
System Error: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
2Move: Estéticas Migratorias, Sala Verònicas and Centre Párraga, Murcia, Spain; Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhizen, The Netherlands
2Move: Moviemento Doble, Estéticas Migratorias, Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
Turbulence: 3rdAuckland Triennial 2007, New Zealand
Cross-border. Fotograpahie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
L’oeil-écran ou la nouvelle image. 100 vidéos pour repenser le monde. Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Re-Thinking Beirut, aMAZE Cultural Lab, Milan, Italy
Last News, Centrum Sztuki Wspotczesnej Lazn, Gdansk, Poland
The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, US
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Research and Invention-Investigations with Images in Contemporary Photography. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
6thMercosul Biennal, Porto Alegre, Brazil
AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art,Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; University of Hertfordshire, UK
2006
Une Vision du Monde- La Collection video d’Jean-Conrad et Isabel Lemaître, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
No Place: Artists Explore Utopia, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, US
Centre Pompidou Video Art: 1965-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia
Ah, Les Belles Images, in Situ, Paris, France
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Artists Space, New York, US
Video: An Art, A History 1965-2005, Miami Art Central, Miami, US
100 Tage-100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstveriein, Heidelberg, Germany
Territory, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
Why Pictures Now, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna, Austria
Photo-Traffic, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais Gèneve, Geneva, Switzerland
Zones of Contact, 2006 Biennial of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Under the Same Sky, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ghost in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, US
Raw, Olot, Barcelona, Spain
Nohelia, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK
Grey Flags, Sculpture Center, New York, US
Sichtbarkeiten, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Video Sequence 2, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, US
New Media 1965-2005, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
While we were Sleeping, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
SNAFU: Medien, Mythen, Mind Control, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Word into Art: Artists from the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London, UK
Neo-Sincerity, Apex Art, New York, US
Out of Beirut, Modern Art Museum, Oxford, UK
Dataesthetics, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
2005
New Work/New Acquisitions, MoMA, New York, US
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
Information/Transformation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Identity, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
20 years, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Greater New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, US
Mirage, Alexander and BoninGallery, New York, US
Flight 405, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, Lebanon
Risk: Creative Action in Political Culture, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
Interessi Zero, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Incorporated: A Recent (Incomplete) History of Infiltrations, Actions and Propositions Utilizing Contemporary Art, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, US
Truer than the Truth, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Borrowed Time, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, US
The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade, Apexart, New York, US
Screening War – Zur Repräsentation von Krieg in der Videokunst, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Tiempos de Video 1965-2005: Colección Nouveau Médias del Centre Pompidou, Fundación La Caixa, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
On Difference #1 – Lokale Kontexte – Hybride Räume, Württenbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
What’s New Pussycat?, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
In Absentia, Passerelle Centre d’art Contemporain, Brest, France
Reprocessing Reality, Château de Nyon, Switzerland
Go Between, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
2004
The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, UK
Ethnic Marketing, Center d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland
Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens, Greece
Heroes, MARTa, Hertford, Germany
How Can you Resist, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
The Loudest Muttering is Over, Riverside Studios, London, UK
6th International Photo Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
Laughter, LIFT, London, UK
Párpados y Labios, Antigua Fabrica de Tabacos, Photo Espanã, Madrid, Spain
Do You Believe in Reality, Taipei Biennial 2004, Taipei, Taiwan
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, US
Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Proof: The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes, Australian Centre for the moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Synopsis 3 Testimonies: Between Fiction and Reality,National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Truer than True, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
A Short History of Performance – Part II, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Haupt-und Nebenwege, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
Global Priority, UMass Amherst, Amherst, The Netherlands
Dreams and Conflicts, 50th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Witness, Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK
DisORIENTation, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon, Bildmuseet, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
MARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Art of the Encyclopedic, Carnegie Art Center, New York, US
A Respeito de Situaçoiōes Reais, Saö Paolo, Brazil
Fresh Meat, CEPA Gallery, New York, US
2002
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, US
Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, Palais des Beaux Arts, Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contemporary Arab Representations, Umea, Sweden
Representacions Arabs Contemporanies. Beirut/Liban,Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Weep, Watson Institute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island, US
What, A Tale in Free Images, Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium
Paradise in Search of a Future, Atlanta Center for the Arts, Atlanta, US
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
This is Then, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, US
Crisis, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, US
The Perplexities of Security, Watson Institute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island, US
Bilder Codes: Internationaler Medien Kunstpreis, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001
24 Episodes about Life Today, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Paradise in Search of a Future, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US
D>Art.01, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, Australia
19th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000
Stand der Dinge, KunstWerke Ins, Berlin, Germany
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Mediterranean Metaphors II, Borusan Arts and Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
1997
Pioneer Valley Videos: Video Art from Western New England, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, US
1996
…East of Here…(Re)Imagining the ‘Orient’,YVZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada
1995
Image/Quest- A Film and Video Exhibition,Théatre de Beyrouth, Beirut, Lebanon
1994
Visual Sights/Visual Signs, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, US
Awards and Prizes
2019
Aachen Art Prize, Aachen, Germany
2016
Infinity Award: Art, The International Center of Photography, New York, US
2011
Hasselblad Award,Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
2007
The Alpert Award in the Arts (First Prize), California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, US
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (First Prize), The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
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
Special Prize Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Second Prize, Black Maria Festival, New Jersey, US
2001
First Prize, Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland
Rhineland Award, Film and VideoFest, Germany
2000
Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival, US
Special Jury Prize, 5th Biennal of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
First Prize, Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Grand Prize, 8th Biennal 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, New Jersey, US
1998
Award of Accomplishment, Missouri Film Festival, St. Louis, Missouri, US
1997
Best Conceptual Innovation Award, New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, US
Collections
MoMA, New York, US
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
FNAC, Paris, France
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
TATE Modern, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Athena, Greece
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
IFEMA, Madrid, Spain
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisia
Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
Ramzi & Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Darat El Funun, Amman, Jordan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Carré d’Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Nîmes, Nîmes, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC, US
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museion, Bolzano, Italy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
The Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The British Museum, London, UK
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
Walker Art Center, Minnesota, US
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Catalogs and Books
2020
Let’s be honest, the weather helped. Amsterdam (Netherlands): Moderna Museet and Roma Publications.
2019
Better be watching the clouds. Amsterdam (Netherlands): Stedelijk and RomaPublications.
2016
Those who are far. Those who are near. Pulheim (Germany): Synagoge Stommlen.
2015
Walid Raad. Ed. Eva Respini. New York (USA): MOMA Publications.
2014
Walkthrough. London (UK): Black Dog Publications
2012
Preface to the third edition Paris (France) Louvre Publications, 2012.
2011
I might die before I get a rifle: Hasselblad Award 2011. Gottingen (Germany): Steidl.
2010
Miraculous Beginnings. London (UK): Whitechapel Books.
Oh God, He Said, Talking to a Tree. Paris (France): Editions 591.
2009
Scratching on things I could disavow: A history of art in the Arab world _ Part I _ Volume I _ Chapter I. Los Angeles (USA): REDCAT.
2007
Scratching on things I could disavow. Köln (Germany): Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Let's be honest, the weather helped. Köln (Germany): Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
2006
Between Artists: Silvia Kolbowski and Walid Raad. New York (USA): A.R.T. Press.
The Atlas Group (1989-2004). Köln (Germany): Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
2005
My neck is thinner than a hair. Köln (Germany): Verlag der Buchhandlung
2004
The Fakhouri Files. Köln (Germany): Verlag de Buchhandlung Walther König, 2004
Artist Talks
2017
Walid Raad in Conversation with Jayce Salloum on Beirut, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; School of the Art Institute, Chicago, US
2010
Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York, US
2009
The loudest muttering is over: documents from the Atlas Group Archive,
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy
2008
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
2007
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
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Documents
15 INVITAIONS 15 YEARS WALID RAAD JUN SEP 16 - Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi
Walid Raad edited by Ingrid Chu
Asia Art Archive, English, 2017
Walid Raad - MoMA
Eva Respini- with a contribution by Walid Raad and an essay by Finbarr Barry Flood
MoMA - Printed and bound by Ofset Yapimevi,Istanbul,Turkey, English, 2017
Exhibition / performance - “Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World“ by Walid Raad at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
ed. Eva Ebersberger und and Daniela Zyman
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, English, 2011
Catalog - TEXT
Mapping The Atlas Group Archive
Adrienne Connelly
Concordia University, English, 2012
Paper
Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part One: Historiography as Process
Alain Gilbert
e-flux, English, 2016
Paper
Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part Two: Testimony of Ghosts
Alain Gilbert
e-flux, English, 2016
Paper
Autodestruction in Lebanon: The Testimonial Uncanny and the Birth of Knowledge in Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group
Julia Emberly
University of Toronto Press, English/French, 2018
Paper
Contemporary Artworks as Platform of Memory. From Analogue Resources of Memory to Digital Art Display: Walid Raad.
Domingo Martinez
Academia - Universidad Politecnica of Valencia, Spain, English, 2015
Paper
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group: the art of ‘truth’
Emmi Nevalainen
Academia, English
Paper
Heterodox mediations. Notes on Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group
Stephanie Baumann
Research Gate - University of Lisbon,Portugal, English, 2019
Paper
Personal and Institutional Practices in the work of The Atlas Group
José Tomás Giraldo
Academia - Lund University, English, 2011
Paper
The Lure of the Archive: The Atlas Project of Walid Raad
Jeffrey Wallen
Edinburgh University Press, English, 2011
Paper
L'Artiste comme archiviste : Walid Raad et l'Atlas Group
Mathilde Rouxel
Academia - Universite Paris III - Sorbonne, English, 2015
Paper
In search of a lost reality or playing with illusion ((On Rimini Protokoll, Walid Raad and others)
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll (Frankfurt am Main)
Academia - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, English
Paper
Double Trouble: Parafictional Personas and Contemporary Art
Kate Warren
Research Gate, English, 2016
Paper
Labyrinth and Rhizome : On the Work of Walid Raad
Christoph Chwatal
Stedelijk Studies, English
Paper
Walid Raad and the Atlas Group: The Photograph and the Archive in Experimental Documentary (2013)
Tess Takahashi (York University - Faculty Member )
Academia - York University Ontario, English, 2013
Paper
The Atlas Group / Zeina Traboulsi / Walid Raad : Sweet Talk or Photographic Documents of Beirut
Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic
Camera Austria International Magazine (no.80), English/German, 2002
Essay
Walid Raad By Alain Gilbert
Alain Gilbert
BOMB magazine, English, 2002
Article / Interview
Walid Raad and the Atlas Group
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Bidoun, English, 2004
Article
ART; The Fine Art of Car Bombings
Amei Wallach
Saradar/ The New York Times, English, 2004
Article
Afterword
Gunilla Knape
Saradar / Hasselblad Foundation, English
Article
War, There, Over There.
Hélène Chouteau-Matikian
Saradar / I Might Die Before I Get a Rifle Gunilla Knape Editor, English, 2011
Paper
Walid Raad : " Scratching on Things I Could Disavow : A History of Art in the Arab World "
Irene Penzani
Saradar / Marges, French, 2010
Paper
Anywhere or Not at All - Philosophy of Contemporary Art
Peter Osborne
Saradar / Verso , Excerpts chapters 3,5,&7, English
Essays
Mixing Fact and Fiction to Open Up Larger Reality
Roberta Smith
Saradar/ The New York Times, English, 2006
Article
The Atlas of Explosions
Vojtech Marc
Saradar/ Fotograf Magazine, English, 2015
Article
The Documentary Turn: Surpassing Tradtion in the Work of Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari
Suzanne Cotter
Saradar / Contemporary Art in the Middle East by Black Dog Publishing, English, 2009
Paper
Archives of Dread Colors : Conversation Between Walid Raad and Helene Chouteau-Matikian
Hélène Chouteau-Matikian
Saradar / Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, English
Paper
Index XXVI - Artists
Walid Raad
Saradar / Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, English, 2011
Text
Index XXVI - Red
Walid Raad
Saradar/ e-flux no.54, English, 2014
A Project By Suheil Bachar : Civilizationally We do Not Dig Holes to Burry Ourselves
Walid Raad
Saradar/ Exhib Catalog Tamass Contemporary Arab Representations , Beirut,Lebanon 1, English
Interview / Essay
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Press
Walid Raad – The Atlas Group: Fact or Fantasy?
V.W.Cooks
Ina Copntemporary Art, English, 2020
Atelier du regard #03 – Walid Raad / Frank Smith
Frank Smith
La Vie manifeste, French
Walid Raad, Inside Information
Antoine Marchand
Zero Deux, English/French
Walid Ra’ad by Alan Gilbert
Alain Gilbert
Bomb Magazine, English, 2002
Civilizationally We Do Not Dig Holes to Bury Ourselves
Walid Raad
Bomb Magazine, English, 2002
Fotoarbeiten ausgewählt für "Das imaginäre Museum“
Martina mettner
The 30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Right Now: Part One
Alyssa Buffenstein
Art net, English, 2015
Gangwon International Biennale tackles social evil
Kwon Mee-yoo
Korea Times, English, 2018
Lebanon's 10 Best Contemporary Artists And Where To Find Them
C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia
The Culture Trip, English, 2016
On Walid Raad’s Practice: The Capital of Preserving and The Freedom of Destroying
Mislan Adnan
Arte East, English, 2015
How to Support Artists and Galleries Impacted by the Beirut Explosion
Sam Gaskin
Ocula, English, 2020
Lebanon Solidarity Fund launched to help save arts community affected by Beirut blast
Alexandra Chaves
The National News, English, 2020
The winners of the Mario Merz Prize - Second Edition
Ilic Londra, 2017
Walid Raad: Hasselblad Award Winner 2011
Hasselblad Foundation, 2011
Alumnus Walid Raad Receives 2011 Hasselblad Award in Photography
Rochester edu, 2011
Fondazione Merz- Mario Merz Prize. The finalists of the 2nd edition (Suha Traboulsi)
e-flux, 2017
walid raad: 2011 hasselblad award winner
Jinathan db
design boom, 2011
German Museum Will Give Artist Walid Raad Prize Despite City’s Objection
Hakim Bishara
Hyperallergic, English, 2019
Walid Raad Denied Art Prize for Refusing to Denounce BDS Movement
Christian
e-flux conversation, 2020
German City Withdraws Art Prize for Walid Raad Over Artist’s Alleged Support of BDS Movement
Alex Greenberger
Art news, 2019
أرشيف للحرب والعنف في معرض الفنان اللبناني وليد رعد بلندن
هناء مال الله
Archive Aawsat, Arabic, 2010
عمال الفنان اللبناني وليد رعد في متحف اللوفر بناء على دعوة من قسم فنون الاسلام
Naharnet, Arabic, 2013
وليد رعد... التأريخ بالصور المفخّخة
حازم سليمان
alakhbar, Arabic, 2011
معرض وليد رعد في متحف اللوفر بنكهة التاريخ
djazairess, Arabic, 2013
وليد رعد عارضاً في الرد كات بلوس انجيليس طبيعة صامتة اختفت في المسفة بين مدينتين
بلال خبيز
almustaqbal, Arabic, 2009
افتتح معرضه "بدايات عجائبیة" في لندن. ولید رعد "الكاذب الجمیل"
تانیا خوري
daharchives - alhayat, Arabic, 2011
وليد رعد... خدش السياسي ومشاكسته بالفنّ
ابتسام عازم
alaraby, Arabic
الفن والسياسة مواقف عربية في معرض دوكومنتا الثالث عشر
ترجمة: أحمد فاروق
Gothe Institute - fikrun wa fan, Arabic, 2012
من وليد رعد وسها طرابلسي: "رسالة إلى القارئ"
alaraby, Arabic, 2017
حوار غير رسمي بين وليد رعد و عادلة العايدي-هنية
sharjah art, Arabic, 2009
Festival d'Automne Paris - Programme Novembre 2010
tout pour les femmes, 2010
WALID RAAD Scratching on things I could disavow
festival d'automne, English, 2010
DIM Cinema | Sept 20 | From Aniconism to Bliss: Media art shows its Islamic roots
dim cinema, English, 2010
From Aniconism to Bliss: Media Art shows its Islamic roots
dim cinema, 2010
The Lucid Evidence - Works from the Phootographic Collection of MMK
photography now, English, 2010
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Ekaterina Degot
Art Forum, English, 2011
The Main Exhibition Features 64 Individual Artists And 16 Groups Of Artists From 33 Countries, And Is Curated By Peter Weibel, Director Of The ZKM In Karlsruhe, Germany
Biennial Foundation, English, 2011
Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Rewriting Worlds
Photography Now, 2011
Fourth Moscow Biennale all about new media art – review round up
Brittney
Art radar journal, 2011
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
bridge to moscow, 2011
A dazzling new exhibit
Sonya Ellingboe
Goldentranscript, English, 2011
With the tech-y Blink!, curator Jill Desmond makes sense of the nonsensical
Michael Paglia
Westword, English, 2011
“Blink!” a charged body of work
Kyle Mac Millian
Denver Post, 2011
Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss Electronic Art at Denver Art Museum!
Leanne Goebel
Adobeairstream, English, 2011
DAM: Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image
Ken Hamel
Denver Arts, English, 2011
FREMDE ÜBERALL. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der POMERANZ COLLECTION
JMW, 2012
Fremde Überall - Foreigners Everywhere | POMERANZ COLLECTION
Pomeranz, 2012
‘More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness’ Debuts at SITE Santa Fe
Huff Post, English, 2012
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness
SITE Santa-Fe, English, 2012
Sophie Calle, Christian Marclay, Paul Pfeiffer, Walid Raad, Michael Sailstorfer and Carey Young Exhibition
NY Art Beat
Enduring Value - Coopeartion Springerin and Kunsthaus Bregenz
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Yvonne Rainer in Bregenz - Enduring Value? Cooperation ›springerin‹
e-flux, 2012
Art Basel 2013: Art Unlimited (VIDEO)
Heinrich Schmidt
Huff post, English, 2013
5 Highlights From Art Basel 2013
Alex Moshakis
W Magazine, English, 2013
AO Recap – Art Basel 2013 in Basel Switzerland, June 13th-16th, 2013
Art Observed, English
Basel, Switzerland: Art Basel 2013 Preview, June 13th-16th, 2013
Art Observed, English, 2013
Spotlight on Art Basel 2013
Katie Harell
News Artnet, English, 2013
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at Villa Schöningen, Berlin, Germany
Christopher Grimes Gallery, 2013
THE SERRALVES FOUNDATION CELEBRATES TWO MAJOR ANNIVERSARIES
Black Tie Magazine, English, 2014
The Serralves Foundation in Portugal celebrates two major anniversaries in 2014
Vitru Vius, English, 2014
La disparition des lucioles. Exposition à la prison Sainte-Anne
Eric Mezil
Paris Art, French
La disparition des lucioles ("The Disappearance of the Fireflies")
APT (Artist Pension Trust), French, 2014
La disparition des lucioles, lumières à la Collection Lambert, Avignon
Vincent Laganier
Light Zoom Lumiere, French, 2014
Review of The 5th Marrakech Biennale
Aesthetica Magazine, English, 2014
5th Marakech Biennale - A Quest for Location
Lucrezia Cippitelli
Universes in Universe - Nafas, English, 2014
Marrakech Biennale 5: Where are we now?
Contemporary and, English, 2014
Where Are We Now ? Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King
Daniella Rose King
Ibrazz, English, 2014
How to (…) Things That Don’t Exist [Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto]
Galit Eilats
Galit Eilat, 2015
Audacious:Contemporary Artists Speak Out
Denver Art Museum, 2016
Audaciou: Contemporary Artists Speak Out
Long March space, 2016
Acts of Translation, MMAG Foundation. Art Destination Jordan
Universes in Universe, English, 2018
Statues also Die. Conflict and Heritage between Ancient and Contemporary
Museo Gizio, English, 2018
Statues die too. Destruction and Preservation in Ancient and Modern Times
Centro Scavi, English, 2018
Statues die too. Conflict and Heritage between Ancient and Contemporary
Anno Europeo, 2018
"Gangwon International Biennale opens with the theme of ‘The Dictionary of Evil' - a provocative theme against the backdrop of PyeongChang 2018"
English, 2018
Turbulencias. Colección "la Caixa" de Arte Contemporáneo | Exposiciones | Caixa Fórum Barcelona
Caxia Forum, Spanish, 2018
Turbulencias Colección ”la Caixa” de Arte Contemporáneo. Caixa Fórum Barcelona
El Catalan, 2018
Asi es 'Turbulencias', la nueva exposición de CaixaForum Barcelona
Jose Carlos Naranjo
Cronica Global, Spanish, 2018
MANY TONGUES: ART, LANGUAGE, AND REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA
one art nation, English, 2019
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
tba 21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art), English, 2019
Atlas Group (1989-2004). A project by Walid Raad
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, English, 2006
Walid Raad: We can make it rain but no one came to ask
Brown, English, 2008
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow. A History of Art in the Arab World
e-flux, English, 2011
Preface to the First Edition
Saranna Biel-Cohen
Saffron Art, English, 2013
Walid Raad. Preface to the first English edition
Wall Street International Magazine, 2014
Walid Raad - Preface to the first English edition
Invagination, 2014
Walid Raad: Postface - Public Lecture by the Artist
Fine Arts Center-University of Massachusetts, English, 2014
Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi | Walid Raad - Asia Art Archive
Arts & Culture, 2016
Walid Raad: Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi | Theme-based tours
Asia Art Archive, 2016
Walid Raad | Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi
Asia Art Archive, 2016
One Wall, One Work: Walid Raad
Krakow Witkin Gallery, English, 2016
One Wall, One Work: Walid Raad
Mira Dayal
Arteidolia, English, 2016
Bar Laika presents: Walid Raad, Selections from The Atlas Group
e-flux, English, 2018
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Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World / Part I_Volume 1_Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World / Part 1_Volume 1_Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)
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