Born
Beirut, Lebanon
Education
Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2021
A Year Like Any Other, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
I will worry for you (from dusk till dawn), 12 hour performance, School, Vienna, Austria
2020
Chou Hayda, online exhibition, Signs and Symbols, New York
ask me a question that has no answer, online exhibition, Signs and Symbols, New York
I will worry for you (from dusk till dawn), 12 hour performance, Brooklyn, NY
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, Signs and Symbols, New York
2019
Fortune, (June-December) performance in-residence, Signs and Symbols, New York
2018
If you only knew, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Chou Hayda, The National Museum of Beirut, Beirut
life itself, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016
I don’t care about your body, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2015
a million times, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
2014
your secret is safe with me, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
fortune/Meanwhile…History, Global Art Forum, Dubai
measure, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
Fortune, PS1 MoMA, New York, NY
2012
you say i want a revolution, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
come back to the war, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2010
repaired landscapes, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009
knot, David Winton Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2007
Sex & Politics, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
a book of hours, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2006
AMERICA, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Trauma and Response, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
How To Human, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2020
On Celestial Bodies, Arter, Istanbul
Artists and Allies III, Signs and Symbols, New York
Spring of 2020, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Dissolving Artifacts, 10 Jay Street, Brooklyn
2019
Artists and Allies II, Signs and Symbols, New York
The Naked Truth. A European history, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
The Living Room UIT (Use It Together), ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Privacy in Public, Metropolitan New York Library Council, New York
Artists and Allies, Signs and Symbols, New York
2017
Fünfter Akt, Trabanten, Düsseldorf
Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
2016
Acts of Sedition, WhiteBox, New York
Stages of Trust, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz
2015
What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Territoire d'Affects, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut
2014
Art=Text=Art, Private Languages/Public Systems, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2013
Marking Language, Drawing Room, London
2012
Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Art=Text=Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2011
Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2010
Cairo Biennale (representing the US), Cairo
On the Mark, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2009
Close Encounters 2, organized by Provisions Library, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
New York New Drawings 1946-2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
2008
Political/Minimal, KW, Berlin
Democracy in America, Creative Time at The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Indexical Frontiers, Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006
Drawn Twice, The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005
The Dreamland Artist’s Club, presented by Creative Time, Coney Island, NY
1994
Quinta Bienal de La Habana (The Fifth Biennial of Havana), Havana
Residencies & Awards
2019-2020
Pollock-Krasner ISCP Residency
2011
CentralTrak, Dallas, TX
2010
Biennial Award, Cairo Biennale (representing the US)
2008
Brown Foundation Residency, Dora Maar House (MFAH), Ménerbes
2002-07
EFA Studio Center Residency, New York, NY
Public Collections
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Phillips Collection, Washington,DC
The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Books, Catalogues, Online Publications
2021
Kevser Güler, Süreyyya Evren (eds.), On celestial bodies (Exhibition Catalogue)
Scott Sherer, Trauma and Response, UTSA (Exhibition Catalogue)
Tame The Wilderness published by Brief Histories
2020
Art at a Time Like This curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen
2015
Christine Macel, Rachael Thomas (eds.), What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (Exhibition Catalogue)
Vesela Sretenović, Intersections@5, Contemporary Art Projects at the Phillips, The Phillips Collection
2014
Katherine Stout (Ed.), Contemporary Drawing: from the 1960s to Now, Tate Publishing
Claire Gilman and Melissa Gronlund, et al, Drawing Papers 108
2010
Ranya Husami, Orienteering, 12th Cairo International Biennale (Exhibition Catalogue)
Michael Corris, et al., Art, Word and Image: 1,000 Years of Textual/Visual Interaction, Reaktion Books
2009
Gagarin 18, Antwerp, Belgium
New York, New Drawings: 1946-2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain (Exhibition Catalogue)
Vesela Sretenovic, et al, KNOT, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
(Exhibition Catalogue)
Donald Russell and Niels Van Tomme, Close Encounters 2, Nathan Cummings Foundation,
Provisions Library, New York
Nat Muller et al, Contemporary Art in the Middle East, ARTWORLD, Black dog Publishing, UK
2008
Klaus Biesenbach and Jenny Schlenzka, Political/Minimal, KW Berlin (Exhibition Catalog)
Anne Pasternak, Lucy Lippard et al, Creative Time: The Book, Princeton Architectural Press, New York
Nato Thompson, A Guide to Democracy in America, Creative Time Books
1994
Lourdes Castillo et al, Arte-Sociedad-Reflexion, Havana Biennial Catalogue
Articles & Reviews (selected)
2020
ASK ME A QUESTION THAT HAS NO ANSWER, This Is Not A Rehearsal, Canvas Magazine (June)
Gabriella Angeleti, Annabel Daou will take on your worries, The Art Newspaper (April)
Wendy Vogel, Annabel Daou at signs and symbols, Artforum (April)
Asha Sheshadri, Multi-Vocal, Canvas Magazine (March/April)
2019
Benjamin Lima, “Folio,” Athenaeum Review, Fall/Winter 2020
Jimenez Lai, “Between Irony And Sincerity,” Log 46 (Summer)
2018
Barbara MacAdam, “Vasari Diary: The Poetic Politics of Stefana McClure and Annabel Daou, and James Ivory Interprets
Vermeer,” ARTnews, (December 20)
Léa Polverini, “Annabel Daou déchire et répare…”, L’Orient Le Jour, (August 29)
Kevin Jones, “Art Publics,” Canvas Magazine, (June)
“Chou Hayda?:Les antiquités du Liban racontées par ses habitants”, Agenda Culturel, (June 22)
Maghie Ghali, “New Mathaf Guide Questions History,” The Daily Star, (May 22)
2016
Rafael Soldi, “Q & A: Annabel Daou,” Strange Fire, (November 24)
2015
Christiane Meixner | Brühwürfel der Energie/Drawing – Concentrated Energy, tipBerlin/zitty, Berlin Art | Kunst
Birgit Sonna | Annabel Daou: Sprache ohne Grenzen, Art Magazin (January)
Gary Pini, “The 13 Must-See Art Shows Opening This Week”, Paper Magazine, (October 7)
Laura van Straaten “X marks the spot” A Magazine, Issue 81, (Dec 8)
Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker, “Misunderstandings and clarifications,” Notes on Metamodernism, (June 3)
“Heartland-Territoire d’affects. Une terre d’amour et de désamour,” L’Hebdo Magazine, (November 2015)
2014
Ingeborg Ruthe, “Zwischen Besitzen und Begehren,” Berliner Zeitung, May 8
Thomas W. Kuhn, “Intuition and capacity for flight,” artmagazine, May
Michael Corris “No Free Reading: Annabel Daou at Conduit Gallery,” Glasstire, March 2
2013
Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker, “Een verlangen naar oprechtheid – Het nieuwe tijdperk: metamodernisme
(A Desire for Honesty – The New Age: Metamodernism),” De Groene Ansterdammer, (September)
2012
Timotheus Vermeulen, “Which side are you on?” Notes on Metamodernism, (June 19)
Barbara A. MacAdam, ARTnews (May)
Thomas W. Kuhn, Der Tagesspiegel (February 11)
2009
Marie-Adele Moniot, “Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination, Artlies (Issue 63)
Blake Gopnik, Washington Post (June 7)
Melena Ryzik, New York Times (May 10)
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe (April 15)
Karen Schiff, The Brooklyn Rail (May)
Bill Van Siclen, The Providence Journal (Jan 29)
2008
Michelle Grabner, “Critics’ Picks,” Artforum (May)
Kevin Bouchard, Art Lies (Issue 57)
Charissa Terranova, ARTNews (April)
Jesse Hughey, Dallas Observer (Nov 4)
Charissa Terranova, Dallas Morning News (Oct 25)
Koan Jeff Baysa,“Lost in Transliteration,”Ctrl + Pdf, Journal of Contemporary Art (March)
Christopher Russell, artUS (Issue 20)
Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times (July 20)
Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly (January 17)
Edith Newhall, Philadelphia Inquirer (January 12)
2007
Barbara A. MacAdam, “The New Abstraction,” ARTnews (April)
2006
David Markus, The Brooklyn Rail (May)
Elisabeth Kley, Time Out, New York (April 20)
2005
Edward Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer (May 6)
Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly (April 13)
2004
Charissa Terranova, Dallas Observer (Sept 30)
2002
Charles Dee Mitchell, Dallas Morning News (May 29)
Mike Daniels, Dallas Morning News (May 11)
2001
Shelly Grimes, D Magazine (April)
1997
Richard Reynolds, Flash Art International (Oct)
Sue Hubbard, Time Out, London (Sept 24- Oct 1)
T. Zag, Al Hayat (Arabic daily newspaper) (Sept 17)
N. Abu Hamad, Al Hawadeth (Oct 3-9)
Nour Al-Jarah, Al-Mushahid Assiyasi (Oct-Nov)
Mike Daniels, Dallas Morning News (June 27)
Suzanne Aktar, Fort Worth Star Telegram (June 22)
1996
Susan Platt, Art Papers (July-Aug)
Wade Wilson, Fort Worth Star Telegram (April 7)
1995
Wade Wilson, Fort Worth Star Telegram (Oct 1)