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CARPENTER CENTER LECTURE: WALID RAAD

Thursday, March 1, 2012
6 pm
Lecture Hall
reception with the artist to follow

Walid Raad, still from Scratching on things I could disavow ©: Piet Janssen

Raad is an artist and an associate professor of art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA. Raad’s works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let’s Be Honest, The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow. Raad’s works have been shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, UK), Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, Festival d’Automne (Paris, France), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, Germany),  Homeworks (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other museums and venues in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Raad is also the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2011), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), the Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2007), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007), and the Camera Austria Award (2005).