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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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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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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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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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2007 The Alpert Award in the Arts (First Prize)
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2007 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (First Prize)
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012
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RAY: MAKING HISTORY MMK Frankfurt
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2012
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MAKING HISTORY Kunstverein Frankfurt
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2011 - 2012
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Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies Tensta Konsthall, Spanga
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2011 - 2012
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Walid Ra´ad - 2011 Hasselblad Award HASSELBLAD CENTER Göteborg (solo)
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2011
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Until it makes sense Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
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2011
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HAUNTINGS – GHOST BOX MEDIA KUNSTVEREIN MEDIENTURM Graz
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2011
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Unheimlich vertraut. Bilder vom Terror C/O Berlin, Berlin
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2011
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Walid Ra´ad. Scratching on Things I Could Disavow Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien (solo)
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2011
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ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One´s Back? ZKM, Karlsruhe
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2011
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The Luminous Interval Guggenheim - Bilbao
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2011
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SERIOUS GAMES - Krieg – Medien – Kunst Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
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2011
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Antiphotojournalism Foam, Photography Museum, Amsterdam
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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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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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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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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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"Seventeen days of Looking", MOMA, New York
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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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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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2005
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Le Magasin, Grenoble
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2005
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In the Poem about Love you don't write the word Love, CCA, Glasgow
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2005
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Information/Transformation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerpen
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2005
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Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York
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2005
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Flight 405, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
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2005
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Funny How Thin This Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, FACT, Liverpool (solo)
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2005
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Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo)
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2005
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Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (solo)
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2005
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Mapping Sitting, Grey Art Gallery, New York (with the Arab Image Foundation) (solo)
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2005
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Borrowed Time, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 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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2005
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Gallery Reynolds, London (solo)
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2005
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Fact, Liverpool, Great Britain (solo)
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2005
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The Kitchen, New York (solo)
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2005
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Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut Lebanon (solo)
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2004
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House of World Culture, Berlin. I/P
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2004
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Palais de Tokyo, Paris. I/P
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2004
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Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels. I/P
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2004
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Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. I and premiere of new project
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2004
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Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (with Rovner, Amer, Kami, Sikander, Al-Ani, Hatoum), touring to Hood Museum Dartmouth College, Williams College)
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2004
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University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Illinois. I
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2004
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Sfeir Semmler, Hamburg. I
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2003
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Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon.
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2003
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Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover. I
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2003
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Mousonturm, Frankfurt. P
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2003
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La Gallerie Noisy le Sec. I
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2003
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Spiel Art, Munich. P
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2003
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. P
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2003
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Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. I
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2003
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Global Priority, University of Massachussetts, Mass. I
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2003
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Experimenta 03, Cardiff. P
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2003
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Musee Niepce, Chalon sur Soane. P_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
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2003
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Video Brasil, Sao Paolo. P/ I Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
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2003
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Kampnagel, Hamburg. P
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2003
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Belluard Theater Festival, Fribourg. P
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2003
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50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice. I/V
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2003
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Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin. P / I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
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2003
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Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
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2003
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New York University, New York. P
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2003
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. P
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2003
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Columbia University, New York. P
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2003
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Witness, Barbican Centre, London. V
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2003
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In Transit, House of World Cultures, Berlin. P
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2002
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Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut. V/P
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2002
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Documenta11, Kassel. I/P
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2002
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Witte de With, Rotterdam. I
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2002
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Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
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2002
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MEMEAC, CUNY Graduate Center, New York. P
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2002
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Watson Insitute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island. I
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2002
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Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. I
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2002
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Mousonturm, Frankfurt. P
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2002
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Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. I/P
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2002
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Migros Museum for Contemporary Arts, Zurich. V/P
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2002
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Eurokaz Festival, Zagreb. P
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2002
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2002 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. P
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2002
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What, A Tale of Images, Memling Museum, Brugge. I
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2002
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Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, New York. P
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2002
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Atlanta Center for the Arts, Atlanta. I
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2002
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Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. P
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2002
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Foundation Cartier, Paris. P
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2002
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Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam. V
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2002
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Negation and Consumption, Ocularis Cinema, Williamsburg, NY. V
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| Literature |
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2008
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Therese St-Gelais (ed.), ‘The Undecidable – Gaps and Displacements of Contemporary Art’, Les editions esse.
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2008
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Julia Bryan-Wilson ‘Not Quite How I Remember It’, Artforum, May
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2007
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Ramsay Short, ‘With Lens Like These…’, Tank, Volume 4, Issue 9
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2006
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T.J. Demos, ‘Out of Beirut’, Artforum, October (ill.)
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2006
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Christina Tilmann, ‘ Vampir Erinnerung’, Der Tagesspiegel, 22 September (ill.)
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2006
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Jarrod Rawlins, ‘2006 Biennale of Sidney: Zones of Contact’, Flash Art International, October (ill.)
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2006
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'Biennale of Sydney', The Sydney Morning Herald, July
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2006
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Nikoleta Szabados, 'Walid Raad, The Bachar Tapes, 2001', Artwrite, online: //blogs.cofa.unsw.edu.au/blog/artwrite, Issue 35, June
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2006
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Rosalie Higson, 'Welcome to the Contact Zone', The Australian, June
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2006
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Zara Stanhope, ‘An Affair to Remember’, Photofile, nr 78 Spring (ill)
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2006
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Tracey Clement, 'Bigger Than Christmas', Cover, Spring
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2006
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'Daring to Be Different', The Canvas Guide / The New Zealand Herald, Spring (ill.)
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2006
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Alan Giolbert, 'The Atlas Group/ Walid Raad' , Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sidney (cat.) (ill)
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2006
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Martha Schwendener, Critics’ Picks, Gray Flags, Artforum, online:http://www.artforum.com, June
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2006
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Andreas Leventis, Home Truths, Modern Painters, May (ill.)
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2006
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Tirdad Zolghadr, City Report: Beirut, Frieze, May (ill.)
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2006
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Emilia Terracciano, On Now On Soon, Flash Art, May-June (ill.)
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2006
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Isabelle Dupuis, Reviews, Flash Art, May-June (ill.)
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2006
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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, New Art For A New Middle East, Art and Auction, March (ill.)
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2006
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We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal
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2006
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Mark Beasley, Back, Frieze, March (ill.)
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2006
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Roberta Smith, 'Mixing Fact And Fiction To Open Up Larger Reality', The New York Times, March (ill.)
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2006
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‘The Atlas Group / Walid Raad’, Une Vision du Monde la Collection Video d’Isabelle et Jean Conrad Lemaitre, February (cat.) (ill.)
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2006
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Andreas Leventis, The Atlas Group, Modern Painters, February
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2006
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Jerry Saltz, 'Interrogation Nation', Village Voice Art, February (ill.)
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2006
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Martha Schwendener, 'Walid Raad, "The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive"', February (ill.)
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2005
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The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Volume 2: My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
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2005
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Adrian Searle, 'True Lies', The Guardian, 06 December (ill.)
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2005
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Moira Jeffrey, ‘Love as a Model for Visual Art’, Glasgow Herald, November
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2005
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Sarah Kent, 'The Atlas Group', Time
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2005
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Chen Tamir, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Art Gallery of York University,
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2005
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Vid Ingelevics, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, AGYU at Prefix ICA, Torornto, CV ciel variable 66, Mai (ill.)
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2004
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“The Atlas Group”: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in: Bidoun, Fall 2004, Issue 02, Volume 01, p. 16-25
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2004
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“The Atlas group and Walid Raad”, Volume 1, The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2004
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2004
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“Mapping Sitting”, Le Monde. 16.04.2004
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2003
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"A Secret History.", Saul Anton, Frieze. January/February 2003 (72): 68-69.
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2003
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"Missing in Action.", Lee Smith, Artforum. February 2003 (6): 124-129.
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2003
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"Mapping the disaster.", Deborah Root, Prefix Photo. May 2003 (7): 30-41.
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2003
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"Already Been in a Lake of Fire," Framework Forthcoming, Fall 2003.
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2002
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"Mapping Sitting" (Zaatari, Maasri, Bassil and Raad eds., The Arab Image Foundation, (Mind the Gap Publications: Beirut [Lebanon]), 2002.
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2002
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"Walid Raad.", Alan Gilbert, Bomb. Fall 2002: 38-45.
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2002
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"Forging History, Performing Memory.", Sarah Rogers, Parachute. October 2002 (108): 68-79.
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