The Atlas Group

University of Rochester, Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY, 1996
University of Rochester, MA in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY, 1993.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Education, Fine Arts (Photography). Rochester, NY. 1985-1989.
Boston University, 1984 - 85.

Rockefeller Fellowship, 2003.
Production Grant, Caisse des Depots, Paris, France, 2003.
Nomination for Rockefeller Fellowship, 2001.
NYSCA Distribution Grant, New York, NY, 2000.
Nomination for Rockefeller Fellowship, 2000.
Jerome Foundation, Media Production Grant, New York, NY, 1999.
Scholar Incentive Award, Queens College, CUNY, NY. 1999.
Massachusetts Media Fellowship, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, MA, 1999.
BFVF Production Grant, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, MA, 1999.
PSC CUNY, CUNY, NYC, NY, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Mellon Fellowship, AUB, Lebanon, 1999-2000.
Hampshire College - MacArthur Development Grant (with Joan Braderman and Jackie Hayden) 1998.
Hampshire College Faculty Development Grant - MacArthur, 1997.
Nomination for Rockefeller Fellowship, 1995.
Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1995.
Experimental Television Center Residency, Newark Valley, NY, 1995.
Rush Rhees Doctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1994-95.
Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1993.

2008
Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island USA
MFA, Houston
2007-2008 Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2007
The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition,Culturgest, Lisbon
cross-Border:Photography and Video Art from the MUMOK Vienna, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
2006-2007
(We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.) A Project by Walid Raad, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad, touring exhibition, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Banhof, Berlin
2006
Walid Raad, Let ́s Be Honest, The Weather Helped', Sfeir Semler, Hamburg
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive, The Kitchen, NY
We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Concordia University, Montréal
2005
Funny How Thin This Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, FACT, Liverpool
We Are A Fair People. We Never Speak Well Of One Another, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio I
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Mapping Sitting, Grey Art Gallery, New York (with the Arab Image Foundation)
2004 University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Illinois. I
My Neck is Thinner than a Hair, Sfeir Semmler, Hamburg
2003
La Gallerie Noisy le Sec. I
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. I

2008
Not Quite How I Remember It, Power Plant, Toronto
Deadpan: Photography and History, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Centre, New York
Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York
Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Montpellier Festival , Montpellier
2Move: Irland, Belfast Exposed Photography and Solstice Art Centre, Belfast- Navan
2007
In The Poem About Love You Don`t Write The World Love, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, Photographers Gallery, London
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, Deutsche Börse Group’s headquarters, Frankfurt
Re-Thinking Beirut, aMAZE cultural lab, Milan
6th Mercosur Biennial, (I Only Wish That I Could Weep), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 (The Atlas Group Project), touring exhibition, C/O Gallery, Berlin
No place, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
(We Decided to Let Them Say “We Are Convinced” Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.) A Project by Walid Raad, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield
The Screen eye or The New Image, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
AfterShock – Conflict, Violence, and Resolution in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland
Her(his)tory, N.P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain
Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
Ah, les belles images!, in Situ-Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
Distorted Fabric, De Appel Museum, Amsterdam
CLUB VOYEUR: CORCORAN, Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics, Montevideo Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
2006-2007 Under the Same Sky, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
2006
Video: an Art, a History, Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami
Grey Flags, touring exhibition, Capc-Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Grey Flags, touring exhibition, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Ghost in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Raw, Olot, Barcelona
Video Sequence 2, Maison des Arts, Malakoff
Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
While we were sleeping, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istambul
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Une vision du monde - la collection video d' Jean-Conrad et Isabel Lemaitre, La Maison Rouge, Paris (cat.)
Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Out of Beirut, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
Word into Art – Artists from the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London
100 Tag =100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein e.V., Heidelberg
2005
In the Poem about Love you don't write the word Love, CCA, Glasgow
Information/Transformation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerpen
Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Flight 405, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
Risk: Creative Action in Political Culture, CCA, Glasgow
Le Magasin, Grenoble
Borrowed Time, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
2004
Transcultures, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Heroes, MARTa, Hertford, Germany
How Can You Resist, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
York University, Toronto
Basel Theatre Festival, Basel
6th Internationale Foto-Triennale, Esslingen
Laughter, LIFT, London
Párpados y labios, Antigua Fabrica de Tabacos, PHotoEspaña, Madrid
Panorámica, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
House of World Culture, Berlin
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (with Rovner, Amer, Kami, Sikander, Al-Ani, Hatoum), touring to Hood Museum Dartmouth College, Williams College)
2003
50 Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon
Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover
Global Priority, University of Massachussetts, Mass
Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin _ Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo _ Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
Witness, Barbican Centre, London
2002
Documenta11, Kassel
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. _Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
Watson Insitute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
Migros Museum for Contemporary Arts, Zurich
What, A Tale of Images, Memling Museum, Bruges
Atlanta Center for the Arts, Atlanta
2001
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2000
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Mediterranean Metaphors II”, Borusan Arts and Culture Center, Istanbul
Kunst-Werke, Berlin

2008
Therese St-Gelais (ed.), ‘The Undecidable – Gaps and Displacements of Contemporary Art’, Les editions esse
Julia Bryan-Wilson ‘Not Quite How I Remember It’, Artforum, May
2007 Ramsay Short, ‘With Lens Like These...’, Tank, Volume 4, Issue 9
2006
Christina Tilmann, ‘ Vampir Erinnerung’, Der Tagesspiegel, 22 September (ill.)
Jarrod Rawlins, ‘2006 Biennale of Sidney: Zones of Contact’, Flash Art International, October (ill.)
T. J. Demos, 'Out of Beirut', Art Forum, October (ill.)
Zara Stanhope, ‘An Affair to Remember’, Photofile, nr 78 Spring (ill)
Alan Giolbert, 'The Atlas Group/ Walid Raad' , Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sidney (cat.) (ill)
Martha Schwendener, Critics’ Picks, Gray Flags, Artforum, online:http://www.artforum.com, June
Andreas Leventis, Home Truths, Modern Painters, May (ill.)
Tirdad Zolghadr, City Report: Beirut, Frieze, May (ill.)
Emilia Terracciano, On Now On Soon, Flash Art, May-June (ill.)
Isabelle Dupuis, Reviews, Flash Art, May-June (ill.)
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, New Art For A New Middle East, Art and Auction, March (ill.)
We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal Mark Beasley, Back, Frieze, March (ill.)
Roberta Smith, 'Mixing Fact And Fiction To Open Up Larger Reality', The New York Times, March (ill.)
Andreas Leventis, The Atlas Group, Modern Painters, February
Jerry Saltz, 'Interrogation Nation', Village Voice Art, February (ill.)
Martha Schwendener, 'Walid Raad, "The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive"', February (ill.)
2005
The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Volume 2: My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
Adrian Searle, 'True Lies', The Guardian, 06 December (ill.)
Sarah Kent, 'The Atlas Grop', Time Out
Chen Tamir, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Art Gallery of York University, Torornto, CV ciel variable 66, Mai (ill.)
Vid Ingelevics, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, AGYU at Prefix ICA, Torornto, CV ciel variable 66, Mai (ill.)
2004
The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Volume1: The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
Anna Kafetsi, ‘Transcultures’, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2004
Amei Wallach, ‘The Fine Art of Car Bombings’, The New York Times, 20 June (ill.)
Paul Taylor, ‘Laughter in the Dark’, The Independent Review, 7 June
Wolf Jahn, ‘Atlas Group/Walid Raad’, Artforum, Summer
Adrian Searle, ‘Lebanese bombings revisited’, The Guardian, 8 June
Fabian Stech, ‘Synopsis 3’, Kunstforum International, Bd. 169, Marz-April (ill.)
Sally O’Reilly, ‘The Atlas Group’, Time Out, 3-10 December (ill.)
Adrian Searle, ‘The Atlas Group’, The Guardian, 28 November
Jessica Lack, ‘The Atlas Group’, The Guide – The Guardian, 22 November (ill.)
2003 Morgan Falconer, 'Witness', Frieze, May, p.88-89.
Deborah Root, 'Mapping the disaster', Prefix Photo, May, 30-41.
Lee Smith, 'Missing in Action', Artforum, February, 124-129.
Saul Anton, 'A Secret History', Frieze, January/February, 68-69.
2002 Sarah Rogers, 'Forging History, Performing Memory', Parachute, October, 68-79.
Dina Al-Kassim, 'Crisis of the Unseen', Parachute, October, 146-163.
Alan Gilbert, 'Walid Raad', Bomb, Fall, 38-45.
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, "Sweet Talk or Photographic Documents of Beirut",
Interactive: Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field (Cologne,
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2002)
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, "Already Been in a Lake of Fire", Framework
(Detroit, Wayne State UP, 2002)
Walid Raad/ Souheil Bachar, "Civilizationally, We Do Not Dg Holes to Bury Ourselves",
Tamass Ed. Catherine David (Barcelona, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 2002)