Lamia Joreige

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.

• Name — Lamia Joreige • Born — 1972 • Birthplace — Beirut, Lebanon • Education — Rhode Island School of Design • Known for — * Painting • photography

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.

• 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

• 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

Lamia Joreige is recorded with the occupation video installation artist. Recorded as painter, photographer, video artist and video installation artist.