Born

Beirut, Lebanon


Education

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY


Selected Solo Exhibitions/Performances

2024

what is left of us, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

War Games, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

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, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, 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

2024

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, Temporary Art Platform, Beirut, Lebanon

Cut, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, German

2023

False Friend, Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY

Hallen #4, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany

The Delicate Things That Girls Do, signs and symbols, NY

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

2023

Paper Residency, Haus Des Papiers, Berlin Germany

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

Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba

The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey

Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Teaching and Artist Visits:


2023-24   Adjunct Associate in the Art History Department of Barnard College, New York, NY

2023 Visiting Artist, Cornell Professional Practice Class, New York, NY

2018 Visiting Artist, Barnard College, New York, NY

2014 Visiting Artist, Senior Visual Arts Majors’ Review, Barnard College, New York, NY

2013  Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2011 Visiting Professor, Spring Term, Meadows Art School, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

2007 Visiting Artist, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ


Arts Organization Work and Community Engagement:


2019

The Lobby, Brooklyn, New York (www.thelobbynyc.com) 

collaborative exhibition project in the lobby of a residential building in South Williamsburg


2013-14

Co-founder and Director of S2A, a subterranean platform for art projects in New York City

2006-14

Co-founder and Director of dBfoundation

-dBfoundation projects include:

2014:

Aporia: Aporia: Aporia: The Search for Our Aporia, “A Wicked Project,” EFA Project Space, New York, NY

2010:

We Are Not an Arab Artist, “New York Chronicles,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar

2009:

Home Base IV, New York, NY (installation and performance)

CAFÉ at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (six month installation and interactive public programming)

2008:

i prefer not, project for Democracy in America, Creative Time at The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Disarmory, an Art Fair (curatorial project and performance series)  New York, NY

2007:

aporia:aporia, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2006:

aporia, EFA Gallery, New York, NY (curatorial project and exhibit)


Books & Catalogues

2022

Benita Meissner, Auf Der Such, DG Kunstraum, Munich, Germany (Exhibition Catalog)

2021

Kevser Güler, Süreyyya Evren (eds.), On celestial bodies (Exhibition Catalog)

Scott Sherer, Trauma and Response, UTSA (Exhibition Catalog)

Tame The Wilderness published by Brief Histories

2015

Christine Macel, Rachael Thomas (eds.), What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art,

Dublin, Ireland (Exhibition Catalog)

Vesela Sretenović, Intersections@5, Contemporary Art Projects at the Phillips, The Phillips Collection, DC

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 Catalog)

Michael Corris, et al., Art, Word and Image: 1,000 Years of Textual/Visual Interaction, Reaktion Books

2009

“the gun is cocked,” Gagarin 18, Antwerp, Belgium

New York, New Drawings: 1946-2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain (Exhibition

Catalog)

Vesela Sretenovic, et al, KNOT, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (Exhibition Catalog)

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 Catalog


Articles & Reviews (selected)

2024

Monopol Magazine review, April (Print)

2022

Q&A: ANNABEL DAOU (PART II) Strange Fire Collective, Rafael Soldi

Six Questions for Annabel Daou, Tique

2021

William Kherbek, Berlin Gallery Weekend 2021:Stalked by Melancholia and Lamentation, Flash Art

Hanno Hauenstein, Gallery Weekend 2021: Die zehn Highlights, die man gesehen haben muss, Berliner Zeitung

”Top Five: January 20, 2021,” Glasstire, January 20


2020

Art at a Time Like This curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen

ASK ME A QUESTION THAT HAS NO ANSWER, special issue 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

The Hoosac Institute, Journal 3

“Special Issue: Painful Remembrances,” Athenaeum Review 3 (fall/winter 2020)

Jimenez Lai, “Between Irony and Sincerity,” Log 46 (summer 2019)

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)



Writing, Editing, and Publishing

2019

Co-Author, “Sounding the Museum: A Shared Reflection on the Chou Hayda Intervention at the National Museum of Beirut,” Curator The Museum Journal, Volume 62, Issue 3

2017

Author, “Revisiting america: The Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,” The Lantern

2012

Collaborator (with David Markus), “Sex and Politics Revisited,” Transmission Annual (Provocation), Artwords, London, UK

2008

Editor and Contributor, The DISARMORY, an edition of 10,000 newspapers produced in conjunction with Disarmory

2007

Editor and Contributor, Impossibility Made Easy, exhibition catalog for aporia:aporia, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,  Los Angeles, CA

Designer, National Reality, a broadsheet by Greta Byrum

2006

Editor and Contributor, heuristics, exhibition catalog for aporia at EFA Gallery, New York, NY





Writing, Editing, and Publishing:


2020

A Live Declaration: collaboration with Fawz Kabra & Gabriel Cyr: A vinyl album recorded live at signs and symbols

2019

Co-Author, “Sounding the Museum: A Shared Reflection on the Chou Hayda (What is this?) Intervention at the National Museum of Beirut,” Curator The Museum Journal, Volume 62, Issue 3

2017

Author, “Revisiting america: The Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,” The Lantern

2012

Collaborator (with David Markus), “Sex and Politics Revisited,” Transmission Annual (Provocation), Artwords, London, UK

2008

Editor and Contributor, The DISARMORY, an edition of 10,000 newspapers produced in conjunction with Disarmory

2007

Editor and Contributor, Impossibility Made Easy, exhibition catalog for aporia:aporia, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

Designer, National Reality, a broadsheet by Greta Byrum

2006

Editor and Contributor, heuristics, exhibition catalog for aporia at EFA Gallery, New York, NY


Artist Talks and Discussion Panels:


2022

Being Numerous (artist talk) Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas

Global Spotlight (virtual artist talk) moderated by Blair Murphy, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia

2020

Artist talk with Fawz Kabra & Gabriel Cyr, A Postcard from the Volcano, ISCP Artists at Work Livestream

2018

Panelist, Museum Objects as Subjects, Beit Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

2014 

Presenter, The Sexuality of Words, a symposium at UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Artist Talk, “Against Identity (I used to be a painter),” Montclair State University

2013

Panelist, The Small Movements of Language, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2012 

Organizer and participant, Our Backs Against the Wall, panel discussion, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Presenter, Contemporary Art Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Artist Talk, David Winton Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

2008

Artist Talk, “In Conversation with Aaisha,” Across Histories, ArteEast, New York, NY

2007

Panelist, Curatorial Happy Hour, EFA Gallery, New York,NY

Symposium organizer and panelist Impossibility Made Easy, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Panelist, Cities, Art and Recovery, Artists in Conversation, Vera List Center, The New School, New York, NY