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Curriculum Vitae

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1973
Lives and works in Kabul

Education and Residencies
M.F.A University of California, Irvine .
B.A, Philosophy, Cal State University Fullerton, CA
B.A, Political Science, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA
Banff Center for the Arts, “Intra-Nation Residency,” Alberta, Canada

Selected Solo exhibitions:

2010
Lida Abdul, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Lida Abdul, MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples
Lida Abdul, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
War and the Individual, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Germany
Ruins: Stories of Awakening, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2009
Moving Perspectives, Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington

2008
Lida Abdul, Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art) and The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Intimacies of Distant War, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, New York
Lida Abdul, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
Lida Abdul, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Memory, Giorgio Persano Gallery, Turin, Italy
Lida Abdul, Le Print Temps Seprembre, Toulouse Art Festival
Crossing Europe, In Transit, Ok Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Newly commissioned piece, Ok Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Lida Abdul, IDEA Space, Colorado Collage, Colorado Springs
Lida Abdul, GSK Royal Academy of Arts, London

2007
Lida Abdul, National Museum of Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan
Once upon awakening, Location One, New York, USA
Lida Abdul, Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice, France
Lida Abdul, Musée national Picasso, Vallauris, France
White House, Netwerk Centrum voor hedendaagse, Aalst, Belgium
Modern Days, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Lida Abdul, ICA Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MANN, National Archeological Museum of Naples
Lida Abdul, Museum of Picasso, Vallauris, France

2006
CAC Centre d'art contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge,
France
Lida Abdul, Giorgio Persano, Torino, Italy
Lida Abdul, Pino Pascali Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Polignano a Mare (Bari), Italy
Petition for another world, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
After War Games, Musées Palais du Tau de Reims, France

Lida Abdul, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Now, Here, Over There Lida Abdul/Tania Bruguera, FRAC Fonds Régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France
What we saw upon awakening, CAC Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, France

2005
Afghan Pavilion, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
Lida Abdul, Ursula Blickle Video lounge, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lida Abdul, Performing Architectures, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011

Persistance des ruines (sceening), Cinéma des Cinéastes, Paris

2010
CUE: Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery

2009
Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
In Transit (screening), The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway
In Transit (screening), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Anabasis, Rituals of Homecoming, Ludwik Grohman Villa, Book Art Museum, Poland
Casus belli, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Bilderschlachten - In Transit, EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Monuments to Transformation, City Gallery of Prague
Stranded Positions from the Series of Maritime Chronicles, Basel
End of Times, Warhol Museum Pittsburgh
Dream and Reality, Contemporary Art from the Near East, Paul Klee Museum, Bern, Switzerland
A Sud del mondo: identita culturali e diversita geo-politiche nell’arte Contemporanea, ARS. MAC Taranto, Italy
Riwaq Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine (2007-2009)

2008
The Architecture of Desire, Part II, I.D.E.A (Interdisciplinary Experimental Arts), Colorado College
Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Stream of forgetfulness, Tienfenrausch, Linz, Austria
Pulse, New York, USA
Eurasia, Geographic cross-overs in Art, Trento, Italy
Memory, history, writing and alternatives to and critical reflections on traditional monuments of production, Wanas Foundation, Sweden
4th Triennial of Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin Museum, Germany
Biennale Cuvee, Martin Sturm Linz Austria
Yellow Cruise, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris
The Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
Lida Abdul: In Transit, Videoformes Festival, France
Intimacies of Distant War, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York
Relics and Ruins, cultural centre Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
Soft Power, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (and touring)
Open Sky, Kunstverein Medientrum, Graz, Austria

2007
II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
VIII Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Illuminations, Tate Modern, London
Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Global Feminisms, Feminist Biennale, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, 
London
Turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
Re-thinking Dissent, IV Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg
Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Still Life: art, ecology and the politics of change, Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
Timeout: Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Selection São Paulo, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago
Culture and Conflict, Stedelijk Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Asian Attitude/Transient Forces, The National Museum Poznan, Poland; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Beyond the Dust, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
The Art of Reconciliation, Central Museum of Utrecht, The Netherlands
About Time II, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Relics and Ruins, Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
Soft Power, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Riwaq Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine

2006
27th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
The Doubtful Strait, A Visual Art Event, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáne, Costa Rica
First Chapter_Trace Root, Gwangju Biennial, Korea
Mankind, The Story of a Wound, CRKC, Centrum voor Religieuze Kunst en Cultuur VZW, Belgium
Courants alternatifs, capcMusée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Le Parvis. Centre d'art contemporain, Tarbes, France
The Unquiet World, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Nafas – Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany; ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
Video, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Undercurrents 06, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Sweden
Mens, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium; K.U., Leuven, Belgium
Painting as a way of living, Istanbul Modern
Newly commissioned work, FRAC Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Metz
Newly commissioned work, CAC Brétigny Centre d'art contemporain, Brétigny
Painting Ruins, Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul
Fast Futures: Asian Video Art, Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai
ACAW Asian Contemporary Art Week, Brooklyn Art Museum, New York
Liberation, Tradition and Meaning/Women on the edge of Culture, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin
New territories, De Hallen, Bruges, Belgium

2005
Resistance, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France
In the Shadow of Heroes, Central Asian Biennale, Kyrgyz Republic
Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place), CAC Brétigny Centre d'art contemporain, Brétigny, France
Between the Furniture and the Building, FR66, Paris, France
Walls to be Destroyed, FRAC Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Metz, France
Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, Miami Central, Miami, Florida, USA
Transformations, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
FM 5 Video Festival, Madrid Video Lounge, South London Gallery, London, UK
Vinyl, Redux Projects Gallery, London, UK
Taste of Others, Apex Art, New York, USA
Defence, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California, USA

2004
Contemporaneity, Academy of Fine Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; National Museum of Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul, Afghanistan

On Healing, D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Poetics of Proximity, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2003
Shibuya UNESCO Association, Tokyo, Japan
Alumni Show, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Colors of God, Layola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA
Open Ticket, Guggenheim Gallery Chapman College, Orange, California, USA
Wide Awake, Highways, Los Angeles, California, USA
ENTERINTERCESSOR, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
Live Performance, Track-16, Irrational Exhibit 2, Santa Monica, California, USA

2002
All Stars of Los Angeles Performance Art, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Hollywood, California, USA
After the Ruins of Kabul, live performance and readings, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, Washington, USA

After the Ruins of Kabul – Not in Our Name, The Palace Art Speak, Hollywood, California, USA
Democracy When? LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Hollywood, California, USA
After the Ruins of Kabul, Highways, Santa Monica, California, USA
Project Enduring Look, Chicago Exhibitions Studies Space, School of Art, Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
GENERATION WHY: Artists of Conscience Speak, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA
Performance Marathon, Theatre of NOTE, Hollywood California, USA

2001
Overflowing, Track-16, Santa Monica, California, USA
All Star of Los Angeles, Live Performance, Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Gathering, Highways, Santa Monica, California, USA
Slam, Highways, Santa Monica, California, USA
Live performance, Track-16, Irrational Exhibit, Santa Monica, California, USA
In Public, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California, USA

2000
Film Screening, Seville, Spain

New Media Visionaries, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
International Performance Festival ExTeresa, Mexico City, Mexico
Unraveling, Live Performance SPE, San Diego, California, USA
Hot and Sticky, Highways, Santa Monica, California, USA
For Advocate, Unraveling Santa Monica, Highways, Santa Monica, California, USA
33.3 Deep River, Los Angeles, California, USA
2nd Coming, Orange County Contemporary Centre for the Arts, Santa Ana, California, USA
Arthouse, Irvine, California, USA
Execution Funk, Track 16, Santa Monica, California, USA

1999
Compulsive Beauty and its Discontents, University Gallery, California State University Long Beach, California, USA
Art History Department, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Hot and Sticky, Highways, Santa Monica, California, USA
Six degrees, The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California, USA


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