About

EDUCATION

1992 - 1995

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence – USA
Degree: Bachelor of fine art (BFA): Studies in Painting & Filmmaking

1990 - 1992

École de Communication Visuelle, Paris

1989 - 1990

École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques, Paris

EXHIBITIONS SOLO

2017

Marfa’ Gallery, Beirut. Under-Writing Beirut
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University

2016

Nicéphore Niepce Museum. And the living is easy –Variations on a film
TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Lamia Joreige. Memory and representation, Lebanon

2015

Taymour Grahne gallery, New York City. Records for Uncertain Times

2013

Art Factum gallery, Beirut. Records for Uncertain Times

2009

Tanit gallery, Munich. A Strange Feeling of Familiarity

2007

Espace Kettaneh, Beirut. A Strange Feeling of Familiarity

2006

Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria. Time and the Other

2005

Townhouse gallery, Cairo. Time and the Other

2004

Janine Rubeiz gallery, Beirut. Time and the Other

2003

Nicéphore Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône. Ici et peut-être ailleurs

2001

Janine Rubeiz gallery, Beirut. Lamia Joreige (Painting & Drawings)

2000

Janine Rubeiz gallery, Beirut. Le déplacement
Nikki Marquardt gallery, Paris. Le déplacement & Objets de Guerre

1999

Janine Rubeiz gallery, Beirut. Lamia Joreige (Painting & Drawings)

1997

French Cultural Center, Beirut. Surfaces

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2018

Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Austria. Camera Austria. 

LIVERPOOL Biennial. U.K Beautiful world, where are you?Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino. Statues also die
Oslo Kunstforening Norway. Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout

2017

MAXXI, Rome. Home Beirut – Sounding Neighbors
Marta Herford museum, Germany. Suspended Territories
Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE. Tamawuj

2016

Cardiff National Museum, UK. Artes Mundi 7 exhibition.
Círculo de Artes plásticas de Coimbra. Suspended spaces – Sair do livro!

2015

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna , Too Early, Too Late
SMFA, Boston. Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict”

2014

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (Permanent collection)
104, Paris. Passé simple, futurs composés
New Museum, New York City. Here and Elsewhere
M Museum, Leuven. Ravaged

2013

Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Neighbours
Sharjah Biennial 11, UAE

 

2012

SF MOMA, San Francisco. 6 lines of flight
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Arab Express

 

2012 - 2011

Tate Modern, London (Permanent collection :Objects of War)

2011

Meeting Point 6, Beirut & Brussels.
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. Beirut.

2010

Harvard University, Carpenter Visual Art Center, The Image in Question
Mathaf, Doha, Qatar, Told, Untold, Retold
MOMA, New York City. Small scale, big change
Parsons The New School, NYC. The Storyteller

National museum and Art Center Reina Sofia, Madrid. The Storyteller

2009

Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris. Usages du document
Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan
Sharjah Biennial 09, UAE

2008

Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC. Zones of Conflicts
International Center of Photography, New York City. Archive Fever

2007

4th Gotheburg Biennial, Sweden
Venice Biennial, Italy. In Foreword, The Lebanese pavilion.

 

2006

2nd Seville Biennial, Spain
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul. Rumor as Media
Roskilde Contemporary Art museum, Denmark. Coding Decoding
Modern Art Oxford, U.K. Out of Beirut

2004

The Bargehouse in LIFT, London. Laughter
Cetinje Biennale V, Cetinje, Montenegro

2003

SESC Pompeia in Videobrasil, Sao Paulo. Possible narratives
House of World Cultures, Berlin. DisOrientations

2001

Townhouse gallery, Cairo. Missing links

2000

Cinema Colisée, Beirut in Ashkal Alwan Hamra Street project

SELECTED FILM & VIDEO FESTIVALS & VENUES

CVES, Harvard University, USA | VideoEx, Zurich 2016 | Homeworks (Ashkal Alwan), Beirut 2015 |Medfilm festival, Rome (Awarded Best film) 2015 | FID Marseille. Premiere inthe International Competition 2015 | Silk Road festival, China 2015 | U.C. Santa Cruz, USA 2013 | Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley 2012 | Cinéma 61 (by J.M Frodon), Paris 2012 | New Museum, NYC 2011 | My World Images, Copenhagen 2010 | Les Rencontres Internationales Paris /Berlin, 2009 & 2008 & 2002 | Ashkal Alwan: Homeworks 2, 4 & 7 Beirut, 2003, 2008 & 2015 & Vidéo Avril, 2007 | Paris Cinéma 2007 | . . né . à Beyrouth festival, 2007, 2004, 2003 | Barbican museum (Palestinian festival),London 2007 | San Francisco Arab Film Festival 2007 | Images festival, Toronto 2006 | Lightcone show, Paris 2006 | Festival Côté court, Pantin 2006 | Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’yia, Beirut 2004 & 2006 | Pesaro Signali luminosi Festival 2005 | The Photographers’ gallery, London 2005 |Centre pour l’image contemporaine Genève 2004 | Cinémathèque de Paris (Avant Garde Arab cinema) 2004| Caixa foundation, Barcelona 2003 | Al-Ma’mal, Jerusalem 2003 |Video Lisboa, 2003 | Videobrasil, Sao Paulo 2003 | The Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2003 | Video EX, Zürich 2003 | NBK, Berlin 2003 | Festival de Cinema Mediterranéen Montpellier 2002 & 2003 | Impakt Festival, Utrecht 2002

MULTIMEDIA WORKS & VIDEOS

2017

Under-Writing Beirut —Ouzai | Multimedia installation

2016

And the living is easy – Variations on a film | Multimedia Installation
After the river | Video installation

1999 - Ongoing

Objects of War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Multimedia installation, ongoing

 

2014

And the living is easy | Feature film, video, 75 minutes

 

2013

Under-Writing Beirut— Mathaf | Multimedia installation
The river. Video | 4 minutes
One Night of Sleep | Series of photograms)

2010

Beirut, autopsy of a city | Multimedia installation
Tyre 1,2,3,4,5 Portrait of a housing cooperative | Video installation

2009

3 Triptychs | Interactive multimedia installation
Nights and Days | Essay film, video, 17 minutes
Nights and Days | Series of prints
Full Moon | Video, 23, minutes
The end of… | Series of prints
… and the living is easy | With Rabih Mroué, multimedia installation

2006 - 2007

Je d’histoires | Interactive video installation

2006

A Journey | Video, 41 minutes

2004

Embrace | Video, 4.30 minutes
Sleep | Video, 7 minutes

2003

Here and Perhaps Elsewhere | Video, 54 minutes

1997 - 2003

Untitled 1997-2003 | Video installation

2002

Replay (bis) | Video, 9 minutes

2000

Replay | Multimedia installation

1998 - 2000

The Displacement | Video-stills installation

PUBLICATIONS (SOLO)

2017

Lamia Joreige. Works 1994-2017. Kaph Books. Beirut

2015

Records for Uncertain Times, Lamia Joreige. Taymour Grahne Gallery,

2013

Under-Writing Beirut —Mathaf, Lamia Joreige. Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE

2009

Here and Perhaps Elsewhere, Lamia Joreige. www.hereandperhapselsewhere.com

2004

Time and the Other, Lamia Joreige. Alarm Editions, Beirut

2003

Ici et peut-être ailleurs, Lamia Joreige. Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

SELECTED ART PERIODICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

2015

TDR, MIT press Journal (in Provocations – Volume 59 Issue 3- T227. Fall 2015)
Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Projects) View

2013

Apexart, Life between borders

2009

Afterall online magazine.
View

2007

Sarai Reader 7
Art Journal (Summer)

2006

Art Forum, (October)

2002

Camera Austria no.78

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | Tate Modern, London | Sharjah Art Foundation &
Barjeel Foundation, Sharjah; Koç Foundation, Turkey | Saradar Collection, Beirut |
MATHAF, Doha | Ars Aevi collection for Sarajevo Contemporary Art Museum | Nicéphore
Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-saône | Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain, Bretagne,
France | Banque Audi and Banque Libano Française, Lebanon.

OTHER

Lamia Joreige was nominated among 7 artists for Artes Mundi, the leading UK prize and biennial exhibition in 2017.
She has been appointed as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for advanced studies at Harvard University for the year 2016-2017. (Visual arts)
She is co-founder & board member of Beirut Art Center, a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in Lebanon. She co-directed BAC from January 2009 to March 2014.