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The Atlas Group/Walid Raad Biography
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Born in Chbanieh, Lebanon
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1984 - 1985 |
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Boston University
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1985 - 1989 |
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Rochester Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Education, Fine Arts (Photography). Rochester, NY.
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1993 |
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University of Rochester, MA in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY
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1996 |
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University of Rochester, Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY
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1999 |
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The Atlas Group was founded in New York, USA by Walid Raad as an imaginary foundation to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group documents are organized and preserved in The Atlas Group Archive. The archive contains authored, found, and newly produced files.
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As a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Walid Raad has co-curated with Akram Zaatari the installation titled, “Mapping Sitting”.
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Lives in Beirut and New York
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. 2002 (First Prize)
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Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico. 2002 (First Prize)
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Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisboa, Portugal. 2002 (First Prize)
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Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsrhue, Germany. 2002 (Special Prize)
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Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany. 2002
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2002 Whitney Bienniale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA. 2002
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Black Maria Festival, 2002. (Juror Citation Award)
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Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001. (First Prize)
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Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany, 2001 (Rhineland Award)
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San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA, USA, 2000 (Certificate of Merit)
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5th Biennial of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2000 (Special Jury Prize)
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA. 2000
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VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000. (First Prize)
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8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Switzerland, 1999. (Grand Prize)
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Beirut Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, 1999. (Best Short Film and Best Scenario for a Short Film)
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Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey, 1999. (Director’s Citation)
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Missouri Video Festival, St. Louis, MO, 1998. (Award of Accomplishment Experimental)
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New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA, 1997. (Best Conceptual Innovation Award)
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for 2007 (First Prize)
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Rencontres d’Arles (2006), “Lauréat d’Aide au projet” (Help for a new project), Arles
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007 - 2009
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Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo)
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2008
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Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg (solo)
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2008
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List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island USA
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2008
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Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York
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2008
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Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
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2008
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Montpellier Festival, Montpellier
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2008
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Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (solo)
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2008
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Not Quite How I Remember It, Power Plant, Toronto
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2008
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Deadpan: Photography and History, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Centre, New York
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2008
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Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
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2008
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2Move: Irland, Belfast Exposed Photography and Solstice Art Centre, Belfast- Navan
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2007
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Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg (solo)
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2007
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Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (solo)
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2007
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The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico (solo)
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2007
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The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition,Culturgest, Lisbon (solo)
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2007
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cross-Border:Photography and Video Art from the MUMOK Vienna, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (solo)
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2007
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Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (solo)
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2007
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In The Poem About Love You Don`t Write The World Love, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
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2007
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, Photographers Gallery, London
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2007
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, Deutsche Börse Group’s headquarters, Frankfurt
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2007
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Re-Thinking Beirut, aMAZE cultural lab, Milan
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2007
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6th Mercosur Biennial, (I Only Wish That I Could Weep), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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2007
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, C/O Gallery, Berlin
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2007
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No place, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
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2007
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(We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.) A Project by Walid Raad, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
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2007
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AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield
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2007
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The Screen eye or The New Image, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
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2007
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AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
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2007
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3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland
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2007
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Her(his)tory, N.P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
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2007
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Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain
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2007
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Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
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2007
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Ah, les belles images!, in Situ-Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
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2007
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Distorted Fabric, De Appel Museum, Amsterdam
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2007
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CLUB VOYEUR: CORCORAN, Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics
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2007
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Montevideo Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
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2006 - 2007
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(We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.)
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2006 - 2007
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A Project by Walid Raad, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (solo)
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2006 - 2007
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Under the Same Sky, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
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2006
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Video: an Art, a History, Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami
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2006
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Grey Flags, touring exhibition, Capc-Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
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2006
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Grey Flags, touring exhibition, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
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2006
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Ghost in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
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2006
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Raw, Olot, Barcelona
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2006
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Video Sequence 2, Maison des Arts, Malakoff
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2006
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Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
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2006
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While we were sleeping, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istambul
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2006
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Une vision du monde - la collection video d' Jean-Conrad et Isabel Lemaitre, La Maison Rouge, Paris (cat.)
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2006
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Out of Beirut, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
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2006
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Word into Art – Artists from the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London
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2006
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100 Tag =100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein e.V., Heidelberg
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2006
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Migros Museum, Zurich (solo)
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2006
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National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (solo)
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2006
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Concordia Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada (solo)
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2006
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The Kitchen, New York (solo)
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2006
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"Seventeen days of Looking", MOMA, New York
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2005
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"Flight 405", Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
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2005
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"Flight 405" , Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
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2005
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Contemporary Feature and The Davies Foundation Galleries
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2005
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Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
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2005
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Museum for Contemporary Art, Montreal (solo)
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