Nada SEHNAOUI - RESUME

EDUCATION

1995 SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
Diploma and fifth year.
1987 UNIVERSITY OF PARIS IV SORBONNE, PARIS
Diplôme d’Études Approfondies en Histoire
Mention bien.
1985 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BOSTON
Graduate Studies in Film Production.
1981 UNIVERSITE SORBONNE NOUVELLE- PARIS III Diplôme D’Etudes et de Recherches Cinématographiques.
1981 UNIVERSITY OF PARIS X NANTERRE, PARIS
Maîtrise en Sociologie.
Mention très bien

INSTALLATIONS

2007 “Migratory Symphony”, was created upon an invitation by Ecume and the Municipality of two districts of the city of Marseilles to create a site specific installation. The artist invited 100 school students to each interview their parents and grandparents about the migratory history of their family. Where did their family come from? When and how did their family arrive to Marseilles? Music stands carried the stories the students collected.

2006 "Where are they," was commissioned by The Committee of Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon to commemorate thirty one years after the start of the Lebanese war (1975-2006). More than 3000 names, 400 photograhs, 400 large black and white balloons, acetate sheets, and plastic wrapping. Dome City Center, downtown Beirut.

2004 “Plastic Memory Containers,” 100 white plastic buckets filled with 3000 crumpled balls of paper with the following text repeated indefinitely on them: “How meaningful is it to have a 6000-year old history when we have no memory of our recent past? Byblos is a 6000 year-old city where people feel very proud of their cultural heritage, yet alienated from their recent history, more specifically the memory of the recent war. Organized by Sandra Dagher of Espace SD.

2004 "Sand," 450 glasses filled with sand, 3.70 m x 3.70 m
Palais Kheiredinne, Biennale de Tunis, April and May 2004. Desertification is the growth of the desert at the expense of fertile land, thus creating shortages of drinkable water.

2003 "Atazakkar, Fractions of Memory", Martyrs' Square, 20 tons of newspaper and 150 texts, 70 m x 40 m, Beirut, July and August 2003.
A number of texts were received in response to the question published in three Beirut newspapers and posted on the internet: "Do you have a memory of daily life in downtown Beirut before the war?" The installation is about recovered memory but also about lost memory. Recovered space and lost space. Organized by Amal Traboulsi of Galerie Epreuve d'Artiste.

2001 "Promenade in your Dreams," 20 m x 30 m, 1730 texts on wooden blocks, 50 chairs. May 2001, International College, Beirut.
Students, teachers, and administrators of the International College in Beirut were invited to write or draw the school of their dreams on one page. One thousand seven hundred and thirty submissions were collected and installed in the open-air amphitheater of the school. Organized by Antoine Boulad of International College.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 Galerie Épreuve d’Artiste, Beirut
2000 Pleiades Gallery, New York City
1997 Pleiades Gallery, New York City
1996 Galerie Épreuve d’Artiste, Beirut
1994 Bag Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1993 Galerie Épreuve d’Artiste, Beirut

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 ArtParis,Sign and Caligraphy, Abu Dhabi
2006 Musée Nicolas Sursock, Pinceaux pour Plumes, Beirut
2005 Levant Foundation at Gramillion Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004 Musée Nicolas Sursock, XXV Salon d’Automne, Beirut
2004 III Biennale de Tunis, Tunis
2004 The Gallery at Cork Street, Lebanon: The Artist's View II, London
2003 Musée Nicolas Sursock, XXIIII Salon d’Automne, Beirut
2001 Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
2001 St’art, Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
2000 Musée Nicolas Sursock, XXIII Salon d’Automne, Beirut
1999 Gallery Rossler, Munich
1998 Musée Nicolas Sursock, XXII Salon d’Automne, Beirut
1998 Goethe Institute, "Women’s Rights," Beirut
1997 Musée Nicolas Sursock, XXI Salon d’Automne, Beirut
1995 Musée Nicolas Sursock, XIX Salon d’Automne, Beirut
1995 Alpha Gallery, "New Talent Show," Boston
1995 First Annual AACG, MIT, Cambridge
1995 Dana Pond Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

INTERNATIONAL PRESS ARTICLES

2001
Le Monde, "Le drame du Liban vu par ses artistes," Catherine Bédarida, July 24.
L’Express International, " Les cents qui font bouger le Liban," Scarlett Haddad, March 8.
Polystyrène,"Strasbourg, Beyrouth," Sandrine Wymann et Sophie Kauffenstein, February.

2000
Frigate, "Eliott/Elliot/Eliot," Elizabeth Brunazzi, June. http://www.frigatezine.com/review/art/rar01ell.html

1995
The Boston Globe, "New Talent at Alpha Gallery," Nancy Stapen, June 22.

LEBANESE AND ARAB PRESS ARTICLES

2006
L'Orient-Le Jour, "Waynoun, ou la mémoire en apesanteur," Colette Khalaf, April 13th.
Al-Mustaqbal, “The plea of the families of the kidnapped in commemoration of the start of the war,” L.H., April 12.
The Daily Star, "Keepers of the word," Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, March 3.
L'Orient-Le Jour, "Peindre c’est aussi dessiner," Edgard Davidian, February 18.

2005
An-Nahar, “In the street, in the open air, and under the innocent consciousness,” Nazih Khater, September 21.
L'Orient-Le Jour, "Nada Sehnaoui ‘installe’ les souvenirs de guerre à la place des martyrs ; Projet d’art jeu de mémoire", Maya Ghandour Hert, July 11.

2003
L'Orient-Le Jour, "Nada Sehnaoui:'Fractions de mémoire.' Installation 2—Une matrice virtuelle interne,"Joe Tarrab, August 8.
Al-Anwar, "Nada …On the pages of memory," Claude Saba, August 6.
Al-Liwa', “The burial of memory and words in the shape of an installation by the artist Nada Sehnaoui,” Zuhair Ghanem, July 18.
Mulhaq An-Nahar, "The field of emptiness and its fractions by Nada Sehnaoui," Faysal Sultan, # 592, July 13.
L'Orient-Le Jour, "Nada Sehnaoui:'Fractions de mémoire.' Installation 1—Le mot de la fin," Joe Tarrab, July 19.
Al-Hayat, "Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square becomes a collective cemetery of memories," Maha Sultan, July 10.
The Daily Star, "Old Beirut comes alive in art installation. Artwork touches hearts, memory," Helen Khal, July 7.
The Daily Star, "Artist captures memory in a public space," Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, July 7.
An-Nahar, "An installation by Nada Sehnaoui—The memory of the city paved in the open air," Nazih Khater, July 5.
Al-Mustaqbal, “An installation by Nada Sehnaoui in downtown Beirut—paper, memories, and longing," Yakzane al-Taqi, July 4.
An-Nahar, "Opening of the installation ‘Atazakkar’ by Nada Sehnaoui in Martyrs’ Square— Memories and testimonies on yellowed newspapers,” Joelle Riachi, July 2.
L'Orient-Le Jour, "Premiers pas vers le deuil de 17 ans de guerre?," Diala Gemayel, July 1.

2002
The Daily Star, "Psst! Don't mention the war, artists' website challenges country collective amnesia," Ramsay Short, February 5.

2001
Al-Hayat, "Works of art on the remains of war,” Assaad ‘Arabi, June 16.
L’Orient-Le Jour, “Installations, 10e Festival de l’art à l’IC—Nada Sehnaoui met en scène 1631 copies d’élèves," Maya Ghandour Hert, 18 Mai.

2000
Al-Kifah Al-‘Arabi, "About Nada Sehnaoui's new exhibition..." Omrane Al-Qayssi, December 2.
The Daily Star, “Recycling yesterday’s news into today’s art," Jim Quilty, December 2.
L’Orient-Le Jour, "Poésie Nada," Antoine Boulad, November 27.
L'Orient-Le Jour,"Nada Sehnaoui, Peindre L'Orient-Le Jour—Un visage fait de tous les autres," Joseph Tarrab, 21 Novembre.
L’Orient-Le Jour, "Portrait d’artiste, Nada Sehnaoui présente Peindre L'Orient-Le Jour," Diala Gemayel, November 18.
J.-M. Gazette de L’Art et des Antiquités, "Rencontre avec Nada Sehnaoui, peintre," Rony Asté, October.
L’Orient-Le Jour, "Exposition de Nada Sehnaoui à la galerie Pleiades à Soho..." Sylviane Zehil, June 8.

1999
L’Orient-Le Jour, "…Cerf volants d’artistes—Suspensions en tout genre," Joseph Tarrab, July 8,

1997
L’Orient-Le Jour, "Exposition Minimaliste de Nada Sehnaoui à Soho," Sylviane Zehil, April 3.

1996
Al-Liwa’, "The conflict of forms and the secrecy of signs and symbols," Zuhair Ghanem, October 16.
As-Safir, "Nada Sehnaoui at Epreuve d’Artiste—Temperamental organization through extreme expression," Ahmad Bazoune, October 16.
Al-Anwar, "The third exhibition of Nada Sehnaoui—visions on paper that bring back the colors of the war," ", Claude Saba, October 20.
An-Nahar, "Nada Sehnaoui—When weaving deeply-rooted diversified living gesture," May Menassa, October 12.
L’Orient-Le Jour,” Nada Sehnaoui chez Epreuve d’Artiste”, Zena Zalzal,10 Octobre.

1993
La Revue du Liban, "Nada Sehnaoui... Pavane pour une ville blessée," Sonia Nigolian, July 31-August 7.
Magazine, "Sur les traces de nulle part," C.G., July 30.
As-Safir,”Artist Nada Sehnaoui:’Erasing the memory of war is uglier than the traces of war’,” Toni Masaad, July 22.
L’Orient-Le Jour, "Nada Sehnaoui ou les fragments d’une ville," Edgar Davidian, July 22.

CATALOGS

2006 Pinceaux pour Plumes, 42 peintres libanais à l’appel du livre, Beirut
2004 XXV Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut
2004 III Biennale de Tunis, Tunis
2004 Lebanon: The Artist's View I, The Gallery at Cork Street, London
2003 XXIV Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut
2001 L’Exception Libanaise, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris
2000 XXIII Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut
2000 "Nada Sehnaoui and T.S. Eliot," Denise A. Bibro, Chelsea, New York City
1998 Art Festival, International College, Beirut
1998 XXII Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut
1997 XXI Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut
1995 XIX Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut

PUBLICATIONS

"Histoire d'une toile," Bahithat, volume X, The Image and its Visual Representations in the Arab Culture, 2004-2005.

"Overwhelmed with giref," An-Nahar, 30 April 2005.

"Freedom for citizens and sovereignty for the state," An-Nahar, March 18, 2003.

"The head of the woman is man?", An-Nahar, January 31, 2003.

"En quoi l'éducation artistique contribut-elle au développement de l'enfant?", La Revue de L'Ille, du côté de l'enseignant. November 2002. , No 2, pp 27-37, October 2002.

“J’autorise la sûreté générale/ La poste et le livre de Lamia es-Saad”, L’Orient-Le Jour, 22 Novembre 2002.

L’occidentalisation de la vie quotidienne à Beyrouth, 1860-1914, Dar An-Nahar 2002.

Peindre L’Orient-Le Jour 1999, Catalogue 2000.

"Tourisme et environnement," l'Orient-Le Jour, 6 July 1999.

"Let the president’s most important project be done properly," An-Nahar, 13 March 1998.

EXPECTED 2007

Fractions of Memory, art book documenting the public installation that took place in Beirut in July and August 2003.

PUBLIC COLLECTION

2001 Commissariat Général aux Relations Internationales de la Communauté Wallonie Bruxelles, Bruxelles.

PROFILE

SPECIAL PROJECTS

1998 Designed the logo for the national campaign to lobby the Lebanese parliament to legislate for optional civil marriage.

2004/5 Conceptual Artist for the Euro-Mediterranean Voices, Beirut project, exhibited in Alexandria, Ancona (Italy), Jerusalem, and Beirut.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2005 Prince Claus Fund for “Fractions of War Memory.”
1994 Dana Pond Award Finalist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

LECTURES

2006 Université Lyon II Lumière, Lyon, France, "Fractions de mémoires".

2005 The Committee of Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon,"The whole truth", Hotel Monro, Beirut.

2005 La Societé Libanaise de Psychanalyse, Beyrouth, " Un pays frappé de torpeur".

2002 Université Saint Joseph, Beyrouth, Liban, "En quoi l'éducation artistique contribut-elle au développement de l'enfant?"

2000 Notre Dame University, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon, "Beirut, Sarajevo, and Other."

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Part time faculty member at Notre Dame University, Lebanon, from 2001 to 2004.

INTERNET SITES

Creation and Memory
http://www.111101.net

TV5
http://www.tv5.org/beyrouth