SELECT EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES

2024
Until This Elegy Ends, Darat Al Fanun, Amman JO - curated by Khaled Al Bashir [solo show]
Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions, Kadist, San Francisco US - curated by Lindsay Albert & Jo-ey Tang [group show]
Libretto-o-o, ENNOVA Biennale, Langfang CN - curated by Fumio Nanjo [group show]
Dubplants, Busan Biennial, Busan KR - curated by Vera Mey & Philippe Pirotte [group show]
Radio Underground, Art on the Underground, Waterloo Station, London UK - curated by Louise Shelley [solo show]
Heavy With Love, Brooklyn Public Library, New York US - curated by Fawz Kabra & Cora Fisher [solo show]   
Rhythms of the Rising Sun, Diriyah Biennial, Riyadh SA - curated by Rahul Gudipudi [group show]
A Convening of Civic Poets, Kadist, Paris FR - curated by Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga & Hoor Al Qasimi [group show] 
Listening Session, Chisenhale Gallery, London UK [performance] 

2023
Disguise as Dancefloor, AGM23, Somerset House, London UK [performance]
Disguise as Dancefloor, Trickster Figures, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes UK - curated by Jes Fernie [group show]
Cosmic Breath, Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah SA - curated by Sumayya Vally [group show]
The Tenth Automobile, Where the Wild Things Are, Horst Arts & Music, Brussels BE - curated by Evelyn Simons [performance]
Studies for a Library, Brief Histories, New York US - curated by Fawz Kabra  [solo show] 

2022
Libretto-o-o listening session, MAO, Oxford UK [performance]
Disguise as Dancefloor, Portikus, Frankfurt DE - curated by Christina Lehnert [performance]
Disguise as Dancefloor, Intermissions, Renaissance Society, Chicago US - curated by Kartsen Wales Lund [performance]
Hydro Doorways, Tresor 31, Tresor, Berlin DE - curated by Adriano Rosselli [group show]
Dub Plants + Estuary Acoustic Radio, Receiver, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea UK - curated by Katharine Stout [group show]
Songs for a Set, Front Triennial, Cleveland US - curated by Murtaza Vali [group show + performance]
The Ninth Automobile, Performing Sharjah, Sharjah Art Foundation, AE - curated by Tarek Abou Fetouh [performance]  

2021
The Curtain of the Sky, Boras Biennial, Boras SE - curated by Ulrika Flink and Amanprit Sanduh [group show ]
Here History Began, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin DE - curated by Bonaventure Ndikung and Kamila Metwaly [group show]

2020
Nuove Utopie, Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan IT - curated by Itamar Gov [screening]
Re-shift, Re-calibrate, Pavillion, Leeds UK - Curated by Myriam Mouflih [screening]
Rooftop Disguised as Dancefloor, Le18 + 1-54 Forum, Marrakech MO - curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose [performance]
Half Blue, Berlinale Forum Expanded exhibition, Berlin DE [group show]
Libretto-o-o d'artifice , Video Jam, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester UK [group show]

2019
Automobile Redux, V&A Museum, London UK - programmed by Jenna Mason [performance]
‘32: The Rescore, Sharjah Art Foundation, AE - curated by Bhavisha Pancia [group show]
Half Blue, HISTORY IS NOT HERE, Minneapolis Museum of American Art, US - curated by Maymanah Farhat and Heba Y. Amin [group show]
The Eighth Automobile, Art Night London, UK - durated by Helen Nisbet [performance]
Libretto-o-o auditions, listening session and workshop at Townhouse, Cairo EG - organized by Mariam Elnozahy [performance]
The Seventh Automobile, Durub Al Tawaya, Abu Dhabi UE - curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh [performance]

2018
Space, Breath, Time, listening session with Saleh Badis and Aria, Algiers DZ - organized by Yasmina Reggad [performance]
In Defense of Loud Music, listening session at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut LB [performance]
Study for Sonic No. 7 & No. 10, Debt, Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah PS - curated by Reem Shadid and Yazan Khalili [group show]
Monuments to the Unfinished, listening session and workshop at Le18, Marrakech MA - organized by Francesca Masoero and Laila Hida [performance]
Sonic No. 7 & No. 10 and other supersonics, Strange Umbrellas, London UK - curated by Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina [performance]
stones gods people, Gallery Lejeune, London UK - curated by Rose Lejeune [performance]
Bucharest Int'l Experimental Film Festival RO - curated by Uli Ziemons [screening]
Red Fills the Intervals - a listening session, Nottingham Contemporary UK [performance]

2017
From Ear to Ear to Eye, Nottingham Contemporary UK - curated by Sam Thorne [group show]
Monitoring, Kassel Dokfest DK [group show]
How to Tell When the Rebels Have Won, Beit Beirut LB - curated by Rasha Salti [group show]
Appeal, Al Riwaq BH - curated by Waheeda Malullah [group show]
The Sixth Automobile, Taking to the Streets, Nuit Blanche, Toronto CA - curated by Barbara Fischer [group show]
Meeting Points 8, Beirut Art Center - curated by Mai Abu Dahab [group show]
Sharjah Biennial 13 - curated by Christine Tohme [group show]
Stars Down to Earth, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin DK [group show]

2016
Meeting Points 8, La Loge, Brussels BE - curated by Malak Helmy and Raimundas Malašauskas [group show]
WATCH DOCS, Warsaw PL [screening]
Braunschweig International Film Festival, DE [screening]
International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, CH [screening]
The Fifth Automobile, La Biennale de Montréal - curated by Philippe Pirotte [performance]
space, breath, time, Beirut Art Center LB [performance]
The Fourth Automobile, The Time is Out of Joint, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju KR - curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh [performance]
Sounds As If, DCAF, Cairo EG - curated by Aleya Hamza [solo show]
stones gods people, Forecast, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DK - curated by Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza [performance]
Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin DK [screening]
stones gods people, SALT Galata, Istanbul TR [performance]
(a(version)s), Cuchifritos Gallery, New York City, US [group show]

2015
The Sea In The City, Sursock Museum, Beirut LB - curated by Roy Dib [screening]
I Spy With My Little Eye, Mosaic Rooms, London UK - curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath [group show + performance]
Echoes & Reverberations, Hayward Gallery, London UK - curated by Aaron Cezar and Cliff Lauson [group show + performance]
Experimental Shorts, Berlin Arab Film Festival DK [screening]
Ten, Arab American Nat'l Museum, Dearborn MI - curated by Maymanah Farhat [group show]

2014
Concrete Sampling, Beirut LB [performance]
Somewhere between here and now, Freewaves, Los Angeles CA - curated by Suzy Halajian [group show]
Rehearsal for Automobile, Durub al Tawaya, Abu Dhabi Art Fair AE - curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh [performance]
Music Palace, Villa Empain, Brussels BE - curated by Diana Wiegersma [group show]
The Third Automobile, Theater der Welt, Mannheim DE - curated by Matthias Lilienthal [performance]
ENCOUNTER: Listening to the City, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah AE - curated by Alexandra Macgilp [performance + group show]
Forum Expanded, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin DE [screening]
The Sun That Never Sets, Spring/Break - curated by Vanessa Albury and Rachel Rampleman, New York City NY [group show]
Whistling In The Dark, Workshop Gallery, Beirut LB - curated by Aischa Berg [group show]

2013
An Ingenious Response to Colonialism, University of Iowa - curated by Pablo de Ocampox [screening]
The Second Automobile, Ashkal Alwan Homeworks 6, Beirut LB - curated by Christine Tohme [performance]
Half Step, Art Dubai Projects AE [performance]
AiR Dubai - curated by Bérénice Saliou [group show]
(a(version)s), Beirut in Cairo EG [group show]

2012
Detroit Unleaded (composer), Toronto International Film Fest, Toronto CA [screening]
Triboluminenscence, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut LB [performance]

2011
Quantum Leap, Detroit Science Center, Detroit MI [screening]
Infinite Mirror, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse NY [group show]
Another Detroit is Happening, Queens Museum of Art - curated by Detroit Summer [screening]

2010
New York Chronicles, VCU Qatar Gallery, Doha QA - curated by Maymanah Farhat [group show]
EXPOSURE 2, Beirut Art Center, Beirut LB [group show]
LANGUAGE. DIFFERENCE. POWER. (solo), Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit MI [solo show]
London International Documentary Festival, London UK [screening]
Black History Shorts, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY [screening]
DIY Video, MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Cambridge MA [screening]

2009
Media that Matters Film Festival, New York City NY [screening]
Patois: New Orleans Int'l Human Rights Film Festival, New Orleans LA [screening]
SXSW Film Festival, Austin TX [screening]

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2023-24 Wysing Arts Center residency
2022-23 Artist in Residence, London Borough of Barking & Dagenahm
2021 Sundance / TIME Magazine Kendeda production grant
2021 Graham Foundation Research & Development grant
2019 Mophradat Consortium Commission with Portikus and the Renaissance Society
2019 Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio research grant
2018 Sharjah Production Grant, Sharjah UE
2015 Delfina Residency, London UK
2014 Heinrich Boell Foundation Grant
2013 A.I.R. Dubai Residency, Dubai AE
2012 Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grant
2012 Festival Belluard Bollwerk Int’l Residency, Fribourg CH

EDUCATION
Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace program, 2012, Beirut
M.F.A 2010, Studio Art, New York University
B.F.A. 2003, Studio Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor