Born

Beirut, Lebanon


Education

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY


Selected Solo Exhibitions/Performances

2022

Only If, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

Gods and Grifters, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

What can I do? What should I do? What will I do? (performance) Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS

Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

DECLARATION, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

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

2023

Videotheque, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany

2022

In search of…the miraculous, DG Kunstraum, Munich, Germany 

Artists and Allies V, Signs and Symbols, New York

2021

Works on Paper, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany

That was then, this is now, signs and symbols, New York, NY

All I Think About is You, Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin

Artists and Allies IV, Signs and Symbols, New York

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

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

The Morgan Library & Museum

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