Lamia Joreige


Lamia Joreige is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Since the late 1990s, her works have been widely displayed. She is a co founder and co director of the Beirut Art Center.
In 2011, Sandra Dagher and Lamia Joreige organized “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” at New York City's New Museum.
WWW lamiajoreige.com

Work

Lamia Joreige works with various media including painting, writing, photography, video and installation. She explores the archive and other subjects related to memory.
Objects of War, a series of testimonials on the Lebanese War was acquired by the Tate Modern in 2011, being the first major piece of a Lebanese artist on display in this museum’s permanent collections. Her video Beirut, Autopsy of a City is part of Story Board, a digital hub produced by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Publications

  • Works 1994–2017, Lamia Joreige
  • Time and the other
  • Ici et peut-être ailleurs / Hier, und vielleicht anderswo

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Under-Writing Beirut, Marfa Projects, Beirut, 2017
  • After the River, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2017
  • Records for uncertain Times, Art Factum Gallery, Beirut, 2013
  • A Strange Feeling of Familiarity, Galerie Tanit, Munich, 2009
  • Strange Feeling of Familiarity, Naila Kettaneh Kunigk, Beirut, 2008
  • Time and the Other, Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, 2006
  • Time and the Other, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2005
  • Time and the Other, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, 2004
  • Ici et peut-être ailleurs, Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2004
  • Le Déplacement, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, 2001
  • Objets de Guerre & Le Déplacement, Nikki D. Marquardt Gallery, Paris, 2000
  • Paintings, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, 1999
  • Surfaces, French Cultural Center, Beirut, 1997

Group exhibitions