Galerie Sfeir-Semler

Walid Raad

(Lebanese, b. 1967)

Walid Raad

Introduction_Plate 12, 2014

Walid Raad

Preface to the Seventh Edition_V, 2012

Walid Raad

Preface to the third edition (Édition française)_Plate I, 2013

Walid Raad

Preface to the third edition_Acknowledgements_Panneau, 2014

Walid Raad

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World: Preface to the fifth edition I, 2012

Biography

Timeline

1967: Born in Chbanieh, Lebanon
1984 - 1985: Boston University
1985 - 1989: Rochester Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Education, Fine Arts (Photography), Rochester, NY
1993: University of Rochester, MA in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY
1996: University of Rochester, Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY
1997: New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA (Best Conceptual Innovation Award)
1998: Missouri Video Festival, St. Louis, MO (Award of Accomplishment Experimental)
1999: 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.
: 8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Switzerland (Grand Prize)
: Beirut Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon (Best Short Film and Best Scenario for a Short Film)
: Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey (Director’s Citation)
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
: VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland (First Prize)
2000: San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA, USA (Certificate of Merit)
: 5th Biennial of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France (Special Jury Prize)
2001: Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland (First Prize)
: Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany (Rhineland Award)
: Black Maria Festival (Juror Citation Award)
: Whitney Bienniale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
: Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsrhue, Germany (Special Prize)
: Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
: Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico (First Prize)
2002: Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (First Prize)
: Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisboa, Portugal (First Prize)
2006: Rencontres d’Arles, Lauréat d’Aide au projet (Help for a new project), Arles, France
2007: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (First Prize)
: The Alpert Award in the Arts (First Prize)
2011: Hasselblad Award
: As a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Walid Raad has co-curated with Akram Zaatari the installation titled, “Mapping Sitting”.
: Lives in Beirut and New York

Exhibitions

2015: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2014: Sweet Talk: Commissions, University of Contemporary Art, Amherst, MA, USA (solo)
: Walid Raad, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo)
: Marrakech Biennial 5, Marrakech, Morocco (group)
2013: Walid Raad - Preface to the First EditionLouvre, Paris, France (solo)
: Neue Galerie – neu gesehen, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
: REALITÄT UND FIKTION, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
: A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York
: Views from Outer to Inner Compartments, Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: in progress. Werl aus der mumok Sammlung, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
: Art Basel Unlimited. Views from Outer to Inner Compartments, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: Aichi Tiennale, Aichi, Japan
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (solo)
2012 - 2013: The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2012: RAY: MAKING HISTORY, MMK Frankfurt; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
: dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
: Fremde überall - Foreigners everywhere, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Austria
: Bleibender Wert? Haltbarkeit und Verfall kritischer Publizistik. Kooperation "springerin", Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2011 - 2012: Walid Ra´ad - 2011 Hasselblad Award HASSELBLAD CENTER Göteborg (solo)
: Walid Raad - Hasselblad Award 2011, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
: Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
: 10. Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
: Serious Games - Krieg, Medien Kunst, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Germany
: Wild Sky, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
: Wunder Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany / Kunsthalle Krens, Austria
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, TBA 21, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, TBA 21, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Unheimlich vertraut. Bilder vom Terror C/O Berlin, Berlin
: The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
: Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies Tensta Konsthall, Spanga
: ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One´s Back? ZKM, Karlsruhe
: Walid Ra´ad. Scratching on Things I Could Disavow Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien (solo)
: HAUNTINGS – GHOST BOX MEDIA KUNSTVEREIN MEDIENTURM Graz
2011: Until it makes sense Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
: Antiphotojournalism, FOAM, Amsterdam
2010 - 2011: Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
: Miraculous Beginnings, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Bildmuseet, Umea; Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
: Told-Retold-Untold, Qatar
: Zukunft der Tradition – Tradition der Zukunft, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Vernacular of Violence, curated by Lisa Kirk, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
: Alles anders?, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
: Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut), Camera Austria, Graz, Austria (solo)
: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum (An Anniversary Benefit Exhibition), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
: Art of War, curated by Sean Donaher, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Walid Raad, Camera Austria, Austria (solo)
: Antiphotojournalism, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona
: Márgenes de Silencio, Foundation Helga de Alvear, Madrid
: Camera Austria, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2010: Festival d’Automne, Paris, France
: Media City Seoul 2010 (The 6th Seoul International Media Art Biennale): Trust, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, A History of Art in the Arab World,Part 1_Volume (solo)
: 1_Chapter 1, Beirut 1992-2005, a project by Walid Raad, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como Walid Raad, Paula Cooper, New York (solo)
: The Atlas Group (1989- 2004). Un Proyecto de Walid Raad, Reina Sofia, Madrid (solo)
: 1_Chapter 1, Beirut 1992-2005, a project by Walid Raad, RedCat, Los Angeles (solo)
: Walid Raad, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, 25 September – 31 October 2009 at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (solo)
: Commentary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
: Darkside II – Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
: Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, organized by the Berliner Festspiele, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World. REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World, part 1 volume 1_chapter 1: Beirut (1992-2005), Spazio San Francesco, Italy (solo)
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A history of art in the Arab world _ Part I _Volume 1 _ Chapter 1:Beirut (1992-2005), Paula Cooper Gallery,New York, NY (solo)
: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2009: Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
2008 - 2009: Walid Raad. I MIGHT DIE BEFORE I GET A RIFLE, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany (solo)
: Not Quite How I Remember It, Power Plant, Toronto
: Curating Architecture, The Showroom, London
: 2Move: Irland, Belfast Exposed Photography and Solstice Art Centre, Belfast- Navan
: Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
: Deadpan: Photography and History, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Centre, New York
: A History of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art: Part I_Chapter 1: Beirut (1992-2005), Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (solo)
2008: List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
: Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
: Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: MFA, Houston, TX (solo)
: Montpellier Festival, Montpellier
2007 - 2009: Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
: AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland
: Her(his)tory, N.P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
: Ah, les belles images!, in Situ-Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
: The Screen eye or The New Image, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
: CLUB VOYEUR: CORCORAN, Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics
: Montevideo Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
: (We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.)
: A Project by Walid Raad, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (solo)
: Under the Same Sky, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
: Distorted Fabric, De Appel Museum, Amsterdam
: AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield
: Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain
: No place, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
2007: Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg (solo)
: Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (solo)
: The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition,Culturgest, Lisbon (solo)
: cross-Border:Photography and Video Art from the MUMOK Vienna, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (solo)
: Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (solo)
: In The Poem About Love You Don`t Write The World Love, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
: The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico (solo)
: (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
: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, Deutsche Börse Group’s headquarters, Frankfurt
: Re-Thinking Beirut, aMAZE cultural lab, Milan
: 6th Mercosur Biennial, (I Only Wish That I Could Weep), Porto Alegre, Brazil
: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, C/O Gallery, Berlin
: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, Photographers Gallery, London
: Word into Art – Artists from the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London
: Seventeen days of Looking, MOMA, New York
: Sydney Biennale
: The Kitchen, New York (solo)
: Concordia Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada (solo)
: National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (solo)
: Migros Museum, Zurich (solo)
: 100 Tag =100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein e.V., Heidelberg
: Out of Beirut, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
: Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
: While we were sleeping, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istambul
: Video Sequence 2, Maison des Arts, Malakoff
: Raw, Olot, Barcelona
: Ghost in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
: Grey Flags, touring exhibition, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
: Grey Flags, touring exhibition, Capc-Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
2006: Video: an Art, a History, Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami
: Une vision du monde - la collection video d' Jean-Conrad et Isabel Lemaitre, La Maison Rouge, Paris (cat.)
: Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York
: Funny How Thin This Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, FACT, Liverpool (solo)
: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo)
: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (solo)
: In the Poem about Love you don't write the word Love, CCA, Glasgow
: Borrowed Time, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
: Information/Transformation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerpen
: Information/Transformation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
: Mapping Sitting, Grey Art Gallery, New York (with the Arab Image Foundation) (solo)
: In the Poem about Love you don't write the word Love, CCA, Glasgow
: Le Magasin, Grenoble
: Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut Lebanon (solo)
: The Kitchen, New York (solo)
: Fact, Liverpool, Great Britain (solo)
: Gallery Reynolds, London (solo)
: Museum for Contemporary Art, Montreal (solo)
: Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
: Contemporary Feature and The Davies Foundation Galleries
: Kunstverein Bregenz
: Flight 405, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
2005: Flight 405, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
: Le Magasin, Grenoble
: Sfeir Semmler, Hamburg. I
: University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Illinois. I
: Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (with Rovner, Amer, Kami, Sikander, Al-Ani, Hatoum), touring to Hood Museum Dartmouth College, Williams College)
: Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels. I/P
: Palais de Tokyo, Paris. I/P
2004: House of World Culture, Berlin. I/P
: Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. I and premiere of new project
: Kampnagel, Hamburg. P
: Witness, Barbican Centre, London. V
: Columbia University, New York. P
: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. P
: New York University, New York. P
: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
: Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin. P / I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
: 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice. I/V
: In Transit, House of World Cultures, Berlin. P
: Video Brasil, Sao Paolo. P/ I Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
: Belluard Theater Festival, Fribourg. P
: Experimenta 03, Cardiff. P
: Global Priority, University of Massachussetts, Mass. I
: Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. I
: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. P
: Spiel Art, Munich. P
: La Gallerie Noisy le Sec. I
: Mousonturm, Frankfurt. P
: Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover. I
2003: Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon
: Musee Niepce, Chalon sur Soane. P_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
: What, A Tale of Images, Memling Museum, Brugge. I
: Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, New York. P
: Atlanta Center for the Arts, Atlanta. I
: Negation and Consumption, Ocularis Cinema, Williamsburg, NY. V
: Foundation Cartier, Paris. P
: Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam. V
: 2002 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. P
: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. P
: Eurokaz Festival, Zagreb. P
: Watson Insitute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island. I
: Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. I/P
: Mousonturm, Frankfurt. P
: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. I
: MEMEAC, CUNY Graduate Center, New York. P
: Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
: Witte de With, Rotterdam. I
: Documenta11, Kassel. I/P
2002: Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut. V/P
: Migros Museum for Contemporary Arts, Zurich. V/P
: V = Video Screening
: I = Installation
: P = Performance/Lecture

Public Collections

: IFEMA, Madrid, Spain Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
: MOMA, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Kunsthalle Hamburg, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
: FNAC, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
: Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
: TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom
: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
: MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
: FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Athena, Greece
: Centre National d´Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Literature

2011: Ben Davis, ‘Walid Raad on Why the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Must Be Built On a Foundation of Workers’ Rights’, www.artinfo.com, 16 June
: Yulia Tikhonova, ‘Walid Raad’, Flash Art, March – April
: Kathy Battista, ‘A Look at The Hugo Boss Prize 2010’, Res, March
: Alan Gilbert, ‘Walid Raad (Re)Invents The Archive, Aperture, Spring
: Kaelen Wilson – Goldie, ‘Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings’, Previews, Art Forum, September
: Emma Crichton-Miller, ‘Chaos Theories’, Financial Times (Collecting Supplement), 9 October
: JJ Charlesworth, ‘Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings’, Art Review, October
: Sue Steward, ‘Obsessed by Lebanon’s Past’, Evening Standard, 22 October
: ‘Walid Raad: Sweet Talk: Commisions (Beirut)’, Camera Austria, No 111
: Alice Pfeiffer, ‘Paging Atlas Group’, Artinamerica.com, 4 November
: ‘Márgenes de Silencio’, Essay by José María Viñuela, Centro de Artes Visuales de Cáceres, June
: Ed. Achim Borchardt-Hume, 'Miraculous Beginnings: Walid Raad', catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery Press
: Ossian Ward , ‘Walid Raad’, Time Out (London), 25 November – 1 December
: Marcus Verhagen, ‘Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings’, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan
: Francis Hodgson, ‘Walid Raad, Whitechapel Gallery, London’, www.ft.com 13th December
2010: 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
: Lou Forster, ‘Walid Raad, L’Archive en délai’, Art21, Autumn
: Vered Maimon, The Third Citizen: On Models of Criticality in Contemporary Art Practices, October Magazine, Summer
: Barbara Casavecchia, ‘Walid Raad, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy’, Frieze, July
: Alessandra Pioselli, ‘Walid Raad’, www.artforum.com, 11 August
: Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility, October Magazine, Summer 2009
: Judith Souriau, ‘Un certain usage de la fiction dans l’art contemporain’, Art Presence, January
: Ghalya Saadawi, ‘Necessary Fables’, Canvas, March/April
: ‘The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad’, Art and Text, Black Dog publishing, London
: 1_ Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)’, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2009
2009: Kara L. Rooney, ‘ArtSeen: WALID RAAD: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World / Part 1_Volume
2008: Anthony Lappe, ‘Menassat.com doges bullets, bombs and government censors, Tar Mag, premier issue
: Benjamin Carlson, ‘The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada’, Frieze, November/ December
: Architectur/Talk, ‘Curating Architecture’, www.kulturefalsh.net, 14 December
: Cristina de Marchi, ‘Beirut. Una questione privata’, Exibart.onpaper, November/December
: Therese St-Gelais (ed.), ‘The Undecidable – Gaps and Displacements of Contemporary Art’, Les editions esse.
: Julia Bryan-Wilson ‘Not Quite How I Remember It’, Artforum, May
2007: Ramsay Short, ‘With Lens Like These…’, Tank, Volume 4, Issue 9
: T.J. Demos, ‘Out of Beirut’, Artforum, October (ill.)
: Martha Schwendener, 'Walid Raad, "The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive"', February (ill.)
: Jerry Saltz, 'Interrogation Nation', Village Voice Art, February (ill.)
: Andreas Leventis, The Atlas Group, Modern Painters, February
: ‘The Atlas Group / Walid Raad’, Une Vision du Monde la Collection Video d’Isabelle et Jean Conrad Lemaitre, February (cat.) (ill.)
: Roberta Smith, 'Mixing Fact And Fiction To Open Up Larger Reality', The New York Times, March (ill.)
: Mark Beasley, Back, Frieze, March (ill.)
: We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal
: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, New Art For A New Middle East, Art and Auction, March (ill.)
: Isabelle Dupuis, Reviews, Flash Art, May-June (ill.)
: Emilia Terracciano, On Now On Soon, Flash Art, May-June (ill.)
: 'Biennale of Sydney', The Sydney Morning Herald, July
: Andreas Leventis, Home Truths, Modern Painters, May (ill.)
: Martha Schwendener, Critics’ Picks, Gray Flags, Artforum, online:http://www.artforum.com, June
: Alan Giolbert, 'The Atlas Group/ Walid Raad' , Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sidney (cat.) (ill)
: 'Daring to Be Different', The Canvas Guide / The New Zealand Herald, Spring (ill.)
: Tracey Clement, 'Bigger Than Christmas', Cover, Spring
: Zara Stanhope, ‘An Affair to Remember’, Photofile, nr 78 Spring (ill)
: Rosalie Higson, 'Welcome to the Contact Zone', The Australian, June
: Nikoleta Szabados, 'Walid Raad, The Bachar Tapes, 2001', Artwrite, online: //blogs.cofa.unsw.edu.au/blog/artwrite, Issue 35, June
: Jarrod Rawlins, ‘2006 Biennale of Sidney: Zones of Contact’, Flash Art International, October (ill.)
2006: Christina Tilmann, ‘ Vampir Erinnerung’, Der Tagesspiegel, 22 September (ill.)
: Tirdad Zolghadr, City Report: Beirut, Frieze, May (ill.)
: Vid Ingelevics, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, AGYU at Prefix ICA, Torornto, CV ciel variable 66, Mai (ill.)
: Chen Tamir, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Art Gallery of York University
: Sarah Kent, 'The Atlas Group', Time
: Moira Jeffrey, ‘Love as a Model for Visual Art’, Glasgow Herald, November
2005: The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Volume 2: My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
: Adrian Searle, 'True Lies', The Guardian, 06 December (ill.)
2004: “The Atlas Group”: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in: Bidoun, Fall 2004, Issue 02, Volume 01, p. 16-25
: “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
: “Mapping Sitting”, Le Monde. 16.04.2004
2003: "A Secret History.", Saul Anton, Frieze. January/February 2003 (72): 68-69.
: "Missing in Action.", Lee Smith, Artforum. February 2003 (6): 124-129.
: "Mapping the disaster.", Deborah Root, Prefix Photo. May 2003 (7): 30-41.
: "Already Been in a Lake of Fire," Framework Forthcoming, Fall 2003.
: "Walid Raad.", Alan Gilbert, Bomb. Fall 2002: 38-45.
2002: "Mapping Sitting" (Zaatari, Maasri, Bassil and Raad eds., The Arab Image Foundation, (Mind the Gap Publications: Beirut [Lebanon]), 2002
: "Forging History, Performing Memory.", Sarah Rogers, Parachute. October 2002 (108): 68-79.