# Lamia Joreige

Lamia Joreige (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker. She received a BFA (Painting, Filmmaking) 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 (with Sandra Dagher) 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.

## 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 (Kaph Books, 2018)
* Time and the other (Alarm Editions, 2004)
* Ici et peut-être ailleurs / Hier, und vielleicht anderswo (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2003)

## 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

* Cycles Of Collapsing Progress, curated by Karina El Helou and Anissa Touati, Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon
* Across Boundaries. Focus on Lebanese Photography, curated by Tarek Nahas, Beirut Art Fair 2018
* On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2012
* Beirut, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2011
* All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism, Quad, Derby, 2011
* Told Untold Retold, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, 2010
* All about Beirut, Kunsthalle White Box, Munich, 2010
* The Storyteller (Touring exhibition), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2010
* The Storyteller (Touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2010
* Bless my homeland forever, Kunsthalle, Exnergasse, 2010
* Usages du document, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2009
* Provisions for the Future: Past of the Coming Days, Sharjah Biennial 09, Sharjah, 2009
* Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, 2009
* Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2008
* Foreword, Pavilion of Lebanon, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007
* Coding Decoding, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2006
* Rumour as Media, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, 2006
* Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2006
* Consumption of Justice, Dyarbakir Art Center, Dyarbakir, 2005
* Presence Absence, Tanit Gallery, Munich, 2004
* DisORIENTation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2003
* Bater Dance Project (with Zeid Hamdane), Hamdane House, Bater, 2002
* Missing Links, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2001
* Hamra Street Project, Cinema Colisée, Beirut, 2000