Alfred Tarazi


Alfred Tarazi, is a Lebanese artist. Tarazi is a multidisciplinary artist who works with mediums such as painting, photography, drawing, digital collage, sculpture, and installation, reinterpreting the memories of the Lebanese Civil War.
Part of the post-war generation, Tarazi explores its impacts on political, geographical, and social spheres. His art seeks to create a connection with this tumultuous period, using archival photos and documents as elements of his artistic process. Through digital collages, Tarazi mixes images of Lebanon before and after the conflict, introducing past events to the viewer in the present.
Tarazi holds the view that print culture of the 20th century significantly symbolizes modernity in the Middle East.
His studio is located in the Karantina area where he has found many magazines, books, newspaper archives, and miscellaneous items that he uses as part of his artistic process.
In 2011, Tarazi completed a residency at Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna. Galerie Krinzinger would later host his first solo exhibition in Europe in Vienna, Austria in 2015.

Awards

Tarazi received the Moving Narratives Mentorship prize awarded by the Prince Claus Fund and British Council in 2024. He has received the Lokman Slim Prize in 2023 which was awarded to Tarazi on the second anniversary of the publisher, researcher and political activist Lokman Slim's assassination.

Exhibitions

Solo

Fragments for a silent film, Installation, American University of Beirut The sky ever so blue, Bastakiya Art Fair, Dubai The Quixote Project, Dar Al Funoon, Kuwait You're Young And You'll Forget, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut In A Sea Of Oblivion , The Dome City Centre, Beirut A Moment Of Truth, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna Diall 911 For The New Middle East, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut The Oath, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut The Oath, Umam Centre for Documentation and Research, Beirut The Senseless Realm, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna An Empty Plot Of Land, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut Monument To Dust, Institut Français, Beirut Dear Madness, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut Memory of a Paper City, Umam Centre for Documentation and Research, Beirut A Nation's Inflation, Castello 2432, Venice Hymne a l'amour, The National Museum of Beirut, Beirut

Group

Rhythm Of Union, Beirut Spiritual Promises From Lost Prophets, Cordy House, London The Cloud, Creek Art Fair, Dubai The Sky Ever So Blue, Sursock Museum, Beirut An Endless Breath Away, Creek Art Fair, Dubai Manpower, Cosmicmegabrain Collective, Lisbon Blank To Basics, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut In The Trenches, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut Shabab Uprising, Ayyam Gallery, Beirut Rebirth, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Beirut Rebirth, Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna Subtitled With Narratives From Lebanon, Royal College of Art,  London Art Is The Answer, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels Beirut 2, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait Journeys Through Our Heritage, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Beirut Contemporary Lebanon: Art Beyon Violence, Singapore Art Fair, Singapore Excavating The Sky, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice Current Power in Syria, Marrakech Biennale 6, Marakkech Monuments of the Everyday, Oslo Architecture Triennial, Oslo Syria into The Light: The Revolution Is A Mirror, Concrete, Dubai Fruits Of Sleep, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sursock Museum, Beirut Monuments of The Everyday, CCS Bard Galleries, New York Birdsong Broken Nature, XXII Triennale di Milano, Milan Anatomy of Two Revolution, Design & Nostalgia, Beirut Design Week, Beirut Hope And Despair, Nabu Museum, El Heri, Lebanon Where To Now?, Krinzinger Shottenfeld, Vienna 30 Years Of Color, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut