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Mona Hatoum    (British/Palestinian, 1952)

 Mona Hatoum - Static II (Sculptures) h: 37.2 x w: 18.5 x d: 18 in / h: 94.5 x w: 47 x d: 45.7 cm
Mona Hatoum
Static II 2008
 
 Mona Hatoum - Waiting is Forbidden (Mixed Media) h: 11.6 x w: 15.8 in / h: 29.5 x w: 40.1 cm
Mona Hatoum
Waiting is Forbidden 2006-2008
 
 

Biography
1952 Born in Beirut, Lebanon
1970 - 1972 Beirut University College, Beirut
1975 - 1979 The Byam Shaw School of Art, London
1979 - 1981 The Slade School of Art, London
1984 Video production residency at The Western Front Art Centre, Vancouver
1986 Residency at 9.1.1. Contemporary Arts Centre, Seattle
1986 - 1987 Residency at Chisenhale Dance Space, London
1987 Member of the Advisory Committee of Third Text (Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture)
1988 Video production residency at The Western Front Art Centre, Vancouver
1986 - 1989 Member of the Management Committee of the London Video Access, London
1988 - 1992 Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff
1990 - 1993 Member of Artists' Film and Video Committee of the Arts Council of England
1986 - 1994 Visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
1994 - 1995 Guest Professor at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
1992 - 1997 Part-time teaching post at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
1997 Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England
1998 Awarded title of Visiting Professor by Chelsea College of Art and Design and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2004 Awarded The Sonning Prize
2004 Awarded the Roswitha Hoftmann prize
Living and working in London since 1975

Exhibitions
2007 Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing
2007 Turbulance, 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland
2007 Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
2007 Double Movement. Migratory Aesthetics, Sala Verónicas, Murcia
2007 Diagnosis (Art): Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg
2007 Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma
2007 Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2006 How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London
2006 Allegories of Displacement, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2006 Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2006 Confini, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia
2006 D’Ombra, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
2006 Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 Venice – Istanbul, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
2006 The 80’s: A Topology of Sense, Fundação Serralves, Porto
2006 This Will Not Happen Without You, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2006 On Earth’s Face, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille
2006 Zones of Contact, 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2006 UBS Openings: Tate Modern Collection 2006 Domestic Incidents, Tate Modern, London
2006 Anstoss Berlin-Kunst macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2006 Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2006 Case Studies: Art in a Valise, Katonah Museum of Art, New York
2006 Polemos. L’opera d’arte tra conflitto e superamento, Fortress of Gavi, Alessandria
2006 Eretica, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo
2006 Three Colours – Blue, Rohkunstbau XIII, Groß Leuthen Castle / Spreewald, Gross Leuthen
2006 Out of Time: A Contemporary View, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 'Nach Rokytnik', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2006 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
2006 ‘’Conversations = Hadith’’, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
2006 Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, MoMA, New York
2006 Biella Prize for Engraving 2006: Art in the Age of Anxiety, Museo del Territorio di Biellese, Biella
2006 You’ll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interface, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie Mouse Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
2006 If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2006 Cavities - Space Personified, Main Art Gallery, Californian State University, Fullerton
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2006 RE: LOCATION, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2006 Around the World in Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2006 Kairotic, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (solo)
2006 Mona Hatoum, Gallery Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo)
2006 Super Vision, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2006 Touch My Shadows, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2006 Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2005 Over My Dead Body, MCA Sydney, Sydney (solo)
2005 Mobile Home, Alexander and Bonin, New York (solo)
2005 Mona Hatoum, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. Reed College, Portland, Oregon (solo)
2005 Coleccion de Fotografia Contemporanea de Telefonica, MARCO, Vigo
2005 Theorema. Une Collection Priveé en Italie, La Collection d’Enea Righi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
2005 Beyond East and West. Seven Transnational Artists, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2005 The Body. Art & Science, National Museum, Stockholm
2005 Non Toccare la Donna Bianca – Arte Contemporanea fra Diversita e Liberazione, Castel dell’Ovo Museum, Naples
2005 Some Stories: Women Artists from Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Algeria and Palestine show in Film and Video Constructions of Female Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna / Magazin 2, Bregenz
2005 Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2005 Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2005 Bidibidobidiboo. La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2005 The 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice
2005 The Treason of Sculpture, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga
2005 Ensemble! MUHKA, Antwerp
2005 Panopticon, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2005 Videographies – The Early Decades from the EMST Collection, The Factory, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens
2005 The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki / Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence
2005 Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
2005 Take291, 291 Gallery, London
2005 London in Six Easy Steps: The Real Me, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
2005 Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Richard E Peeler Art Centre, Indianapolis
2005 On both sides of the Rhine - Movement, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
2005 Guardami. Percezione del Video, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
2005 Video II: Allegory, NRW-Furum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
2005 La peau est ce qu’il y a de plus profound, Musee des Beaux Arts de Valeniennes, Valenciennes
2004 Mona Hatoum, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (solo)
2004 Mona Hatoum, Rene Blouin, Montreal (solo)
2004 Made in Mexico, ICA Boston
2004 Beyond East & West, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign
2004 Infinitely Specific, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly
2004 The Big Eat in Art, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
2004 Contemporary Photography Collection, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid
2004 In Movement, Unesco Headquarters, Paris
2004 Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2004 Symbolic Space & Repetition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York
2004 Incommunicado, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2004 La Collection D’Art Contemporain D’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
2004 Laocoon Devoured, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain / Centro José Guerrero, Granada / DA2, Salamanca
2004 Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
2004 Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2004 Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
2004 Love It Or Leave it, Cetinje Biennial V, Cetinje, Montenegro
2004 Don’t Touch The White Woman, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Torino
2004 The Search For Identity – New Visions, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Doncaster
2004 Uses of the Image. Photography, Film and Video In The Jumex Collection, Malba, Buenos Aires
2004 Cordially Invited, BAK, Utrecht
2004 British Sculpture Show, National Museum of Art, Bucharest
2003 Just Love Me; Post-Feministic Art of the 1990s, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
2003 Incommunicado, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
2003 Images of Society, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2003 Fast Forward – Media Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2003 Mona Hatoum, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca – MACO, Oaxaca and Ex-Convento de Conkal, Yukatan, Mexico (solo)
2003 Mona Hatoum: Photo and video works, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (solo)
2003 Artist’s Choice: Mona Hatoum, Here is Elsewhere, MOMA, Queens, New York (solo)
2003 M_ARS - Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2003 Serious Play / Metaphorical Gestures, The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City
2003 Micro / macro, The Budapest Kunsthalle, Budapest
2003 Bankett; Metabolismus und Kommunikation, Zentrum fϋr Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 Independence, South London gallery, London
2003 Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2003 Il racconto del filo, Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento
2003 Contemporary Collecting:New Art for Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
2003 Through The Eye Of A Needle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2003 Legacy; A Benefit exhibition of works by Capp Street Project Alumnae, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2002 Mona Hatoum, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2002 Grater Divide, White Cube, London (solo)
2002 Mona Hatoum, Centro de Arte de Salamanca (CASA) and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela (solo)
2002 Mona Hatoum, Alexander and Bonin, New York (solo)
2002 Passenger, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo Norway
2002 A Measure of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2002 Money and Value / The Last Taboo, Swiss National Expo. 02, Biel, Switzerland
2002 A Measure of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2002 ’Another World: Twelve Bedroom Stories’, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel
2002 40 Jahre: Fluxus und die folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden 2002, Wiesbaden
2002 To Eat or not to Eat, CASA. Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca
2001 “In Weiter Ferne , so nah”; IFA Galerie Bonn; IFA Galerie Suttgart;IFA Galerie Berlin
2001 “Fluid”, Wolverhamton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2001 Domestic Disturbance, Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (solo)
2001 Mona Hatoum, Sala Mendoza, Caracas (solo)
2001 Look Out!, Pitshanger Manor & Gallery, London
2001 El Instante Eterno / The Eternal Instant: Art and Spirituality at the Change of the Milennium, Espai d’Art Contemporain de Castelló, Castelló
2001 Un Siècle d’arpenteurs, les figures de la Marche: de Warhol à Nauman, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian
2001 Field Day, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2001 Confidences: Parce que c’était lui, c’était moi, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2001 (Self) Portraits, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2001 Cuerpo y Pecado, Body and Sin, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
2001 New Palestinian Art, IFA Galerie, Bonn; IFA Galerie Stuttgart; IFA Galerie Berlin
2001 Il Dono / The Gift, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Candiani Cultural Center, Mestre
2001 Border Stories, IX International Biennial of Photography, TurinAlberto Martin Exposito and Enrique
2000 Mona Hatoum Le Collège, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - MUHKA, Antwerp (solo)
2000 The Entire World as a Foreign Land, Tate Gallery, London (solo)
2000 Images from Elsewhere, fig 1, London (solo)
2000 Mona Hatoum, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (solo)
2000 Sincerely Yours, Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Oslo
2000 Psycho: Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggionato, London
2000 Friends and Neighbours, the 4th EV+A Biennial, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2000 Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant-garde, 1801-2001, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2000 Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
2000 Out There, White Cube2, Hoxton Square, London
2000 Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London
2000 Sense and Sensuality, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
2000 Orbis Terrarum, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
2000 EX LUX, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall, Austria
2000 La forma del mondo/la fine del mondo, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2000 La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore, National Gallery, Prague
2000 Ayloul Festival: Forum 2000, Beirut
2000 Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2000 MAN- Body in Art from 1950-2000, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
2000 Look out! Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (and tour)
2000 No es solò lo que ves. Pervirtiendo el minimalismo, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2000 Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome, Rooseum.- Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
2000 Still, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2000 Un Siecle d’Arpenteurs : Les Figures de la Marche, Musée Picasso, Antibes
2000 Nurture and Desire (in Aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer), Hayward Gallery, London
1999 Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (solo)
1999 The Box, Turin (solo)
1999 ArtPace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas (solo)
1999 Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France (solo)
1999 Alexander and Bonin, New York (solo)
1998 Mona Hatoum, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (solo)
1998 Mona Hatoum, Kunsthalle Basel (solo)
1997 Mona Hatoum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (solo)
1997 Mona Hatoum, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (solo)
1996 Mona Hatoum, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (solo)
1996 Mona Hatoum, Anadiel Gallery, Jerusalem (solo)
1996 Current Disturbance, Capp Street Project, San Francisco (solo)
1996 Quarters, Via Farini, Milan (solo)
1996 Mona Hatoum, De Appel, Amsterdam (solo)
1995 Mona Hatoum, White Cube, London (solo)
1995 Short Space, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo)
1995 Mona Hatoum, The British School at Rome (solo)
1994 Mona Hatoum, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (solo)
1994 Mona Hatoum, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (solo)
1994 Mona Hatoum, C.R.G. Art Incorporated, New York (solo)
1993 Recent Work, Arnolfini, Bristol (solo)
1993 Mona Hatoum (and Andrea Fisher), South London Gallery, London (solo)
1993 Le Socle du Monde, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. (solo)
1993 Positionings/Transpositions (and Barbara Steinman), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (solo)
1992 Mona Hatoum, Mario Flecha Gallery, London (installation in situ) (solo)
1992 Dissected Space, Chapter, Cardiff (solo)
1989 The Light at the End, The Showroom, London (solo)
1989 The Light at the End, Oboro Gallery, Montréal (solo)
1985 Between the Lines, The Orchard Gallery, Derry (performance) (solo)
1984 Variation on Discord and Divisions, ABC No Rio, New York, A.K.A., Saskatoon, The Western Front, Vancouver, Articule, Montréal (performance) (solo)
1984 The Negotiating Table, The Franklin Furnace, New York (performance) (solo)
1983 The Negotiating Table, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, N.A.C., St. Catherines, The Western Front, Vancouver (performance) (solo)

Literature
2005 Judith Marth: Von der Performance zur Installation am Beispiel Mona Hatoums, Hamburg 2005 (Diss.)
2005 Stephanie Snyder, Alix Ohlin: Mona Hatoum, The Reed Institute- Reed College, Portland 2005
2004 Christoph Heinrich (Ed.): Mona Hatoum, Hamburger Kunsthalle et al., Ostfildern – Ruit, 2004
2003 Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Oaxaca (Ed.): Mona Hatoum, Oaxaca 2003
2002 Christine Zelich (Ed.): Mona Hatoum, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela et al. 2002
2002 Laboratorio Arte Almeda (Ed.): Mona Hatoum, Artista de origin palestino, Mexico 2002
2001 MASS MOCA (Ed.): Mona Hatoum. Domestic Disturbance, North Adams 2001
2000 Edward Said, Sheena Wagstaff: Mona Hatoum. The Entire World as a Foreign Land, Tate Britain, London 2000
2000 Jean – Charles Masséra (Ed.): Mona Hatoum, Le Creux de l’Enfer Thiers et al., Anvers 2000
1999 Giorgio Verzotti (Ed.): Mona Hatoum, Castello di Rivoli. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan 1999
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