Etel Adnan
- Etel Adnan
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2018
Etel Adnan (b. 1925, Lebanon), lives and works in Paris. Adnan is widely recognized as one of the foremost authors, poets and playwrights of her generation. Widely known for her literary work, she fluidly moves between the disciplines of writing and art.
Her paintings rose to prominence following their exhibition at dOCUMENTA 13 (2012); and she has had solo exhibitions at Mudam, Luxemburg (2019), SFMoMA, San Francisco (2018), Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland (2018), the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2016), UNAM, Mexico City (2017), Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2016), Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2015), Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (2014), and Mathaf, Doha (2014). As well as group exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli, Italy (2017), MoMa, New York (2017), Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015), the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), the Whitney Museum of Modern Art (2014).
She has works in private collections as well as many public collections around the world such as MoMa, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunstsammlung NRW, the Royal Jordanian Museum, LAM, Lille, Guggeneheim, Abu Dhabi, Mathaf, Qatar, the Sursock Museum in Beirut, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the British Museum in London, Kunsthaus Zurich, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Adnan also has tapestries in public spaces and private collections. Slides of her tapestries are in the permanent files of the Contemporary Crafts Museums of New York and Los Angeles.
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2020 | The uprising of colors, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
2019 | Départ, Institute of Modern Art, Nuremberg, Germany Etel Adnan et le Modernes, MUDAM, Luxemburg |
2018 | New Work: Etel Adnan, SFMOMA, San Francisco USA Etel Adnan, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland A Yellow Sun A Green Sun A Yellow Sun A Red Sun A Blue Sun, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA |
2017 | Album à dessins, UNAM Mexico City, Mexico Sea and Fog, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Ontario, Canada |
2016 | Paintings • Drawings • Tapestry • Writing, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany Etel Adnan, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France Etel Adnan: The Weight of the World, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK |
2015 | La joie de vivre, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland Etel Adnan, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
2014 | Writing Mountains, The Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria Etel Adnan, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, USA Etel Adnan in All Her Dimensions, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar |
2013 | Etel Adnan, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Words and Places: Etel Adnan, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA Etel Adnan, Galleria Continua, San Giminiano, Italy |
2012 | Etel Adnan, Works 1965 - 2012, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
2010 | Etel Adnan, Paintings and Drawings, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
2007 | Eileen Curtis Museum, Sausalito, California, USA |
2006 | Arte Mare, Bastia, Corsica, France |
1998 | Salazar Gallery, Univ. of California, Sonoma, California, USA Etel Adnan, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2018 | Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking, Americas Society, New York, USA Acts of Translation, Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan Hot Sun, Late Sun, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France Garden of Memory, Musee Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech, Morocco |
2017 | Etel Adnan/Gerhard Richter, Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli, Italy Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, MoMa, New York, USA Delirium & Destiny, A Tale of a Tube, Rotterdam, Netherlands WheredoIendyoubegin - On Secularity, Göteborg International Biennal of Contemporary Art, Sweden Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors, MAXXI, Rome, Italy From Ear to Ear to Ear, Nottingham Contemporary, UK All the words for rock, Nature and Conflict, Visual Arts Center Fondacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy |
2016 | Towards a Larger World, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden Looking at the World Around You, Fundación Santander, Madrid, Spain do it, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan |
2015 | Etel Adnan: Selected Works, Sharjah Biennial 12, Sharjah, UAE Liberated Subjects: Present Tense, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium 14th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey Interdependence, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK Intimacy in Discourse, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Palazzo Riso - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy Follia Continua!, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France Albert the kid is ghosting, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK Too Early, too late. Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy Sharjah Biennial 12: the past, the present, the possible, Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah |
2014 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Rose, CEAAC Centre Europeen D’Actions Artistiqes Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future, Serpentine Sackler, Gallery, London, UK Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York , USA this secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa, Istanbul, Turkey Was wir zeigen wollen, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany The Sea - Salut D’honneur Jan Hoet, PMMK - Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium What Remains: Part II, Rose Issa Porjects, London, UK The Printed Room: read the room/you’ve got to, SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland |
2013 | Tajreed. A Selection of Arab Abstract Art. Part I 1908 – 1960, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait Here, Elswhere / Ici, ailleurs, Marseille-Provence, France Hiwar, Conversations in Amman, Darat al Funun, Ammanm Jordan |
2012 | dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany Art from Lebanon - Modern and Contemporary artists: 1880 – 1975, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon De Menocchio, nous savons beaucoup de choses, Bétonsalon, Paris, France On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom The Art of Friendship, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut |
2011 | The Last Grand Tour, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece |
2009 | Tafsir, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany |
2007 | 5 Artists, Oriental Museum, Moscow, Russia The Dance of Quill and Ink. Contemporary Art of the Middle East, L’Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
2006 | Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London, UK |
2004 | Palacio Reale, Napoli, Italy |
2003 | Jordan National Gallery, Amman, Jordan Musée Municipal de Thionville, France |
2001 | L’art du Livre Arabe, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France |
1998 | London Artists’ Book Fair, Barbican Center, London, UK |
1997 | Fine Arts Gallery, Univ, of Arkansas, Lafayette, Arkansas, USA |
1996 | André Demedthuis, Wielsbeke, Belgium Book Art VIII, National Museeum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA |
1995 | Le Arie del Tempo, Studio Alaya, Genoa, Italy Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA |
1994 | 4 Women artists, Alif Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA Forces of Change, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA |
1993 | André Demedthuis, Wielsbeke, Belgium |
1991 | Unesco, Paris, France 20 ans, 20 artistes, L’Atelier, Rabat, Morocco; Mediatheque, Mureaux, France Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
1990 | Evenements urbains, Grenoble, France Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy |
Museum Collections |
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British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; M+, Hong Kong, China; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Tunis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; Royal Jordanian Museum, Amman; LAM, Lille, Villeneuve-d’Ascq; Guggeneheim, Abu Dhabi; Mathaf, Qatar; Sursock Museum, Beirut; Kunsthaus Zurich |
Education |
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Sorbonne University, Paris, France University of California, Berkeley, California Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |