SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PUBLIC ART
2026 CYBOTAGE, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
2025 CYBOTAGE, MIX Center, Arizona State University, Mesa (upcoming)
2025 CYBOTAGE, South Gallery & Media Room, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco2024 49 South Van Ness Video Wall Public Art commission, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco
2024 The Gardens of Maladies, Catharine Clark Gallery, Media Room, San Francisco
2024 Projections From The Third Half Trilogy, Minnesota Street Project, Media Room, San Francisco
2024 Schneider Museum, Ashland, Oregon (three-person show)
2023 The Great Wall of Oakland, Mobile Light Art Station public art, Immersive Arts Alliance, Oakland
2023 Boeddeker Park, Mobile Light Art Station public art, Immersive Arts Alliance, San Francisco2022 Wild Cards,Catharine Clark Gallery Media Room + Viewing Room, San Francisco (opening 23 April 2022)
2021 Standard of Capital, Salesforce Tower Top, Jim Campbell's Studio Midnight Artist Collaboration, San Francisco
2021 Mercury Retrograde, Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS, Oakland
2020 Projections From The Third Half [Cloud Storm], Art Journal Open, (video commission)
2020 Tunnels of the Mind, ZAZ Corner & SFAI, Times Square Billboard & SFAI Tower, New York City
2020 Projections From The Third Half, AC Institute, New York City (canceled due to Coronavirus)
2017 Hippocampian Scrolls: Generation Alef, West Coast Craft, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
2016 The Life Model, On the Boards, Seattle (theater video commission)
2012 Jaffa Mangoes: History, Memory, and Myth, Ictus Gallery, San Francisco
2011 The Third-Half, Anspacher Galleries, The Public Theater, New York City
2009 Passages, Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco
2005 Facettes, Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon
FILM FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS
2025 Morocco Shorts International Film Festival, Rabat, Morocco
2024 Cauldron International Film & Video Festiva (1st), Salt Lake City
2022 Myth for Four by Zamin Project, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco
2019 Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin (1st), Moviemento, Berlin, Germany
2018 Another Hole in the Head (15th), New People Cinema, San Francisco
2018 Kerry Film Festival (19th), Killarney Co. Kerry, Ireland
2018 Oniros Film Awards, September Monthly Edition Official Selection, Aosta, Italy
2018 Roma Cinema DOC Film Festival, March Monthly Edition Official Selection, Rome, Italy
2017 Blue Plum Animation Festival (13th), Johnson City, Tennessee
2016 Harlem International Film Festival (11th), MIST Harlem, New York City
2016 Los Angeles Art-House Film Festival, The Promenade Theater, Santa Monica
2015 International Film Awards Berlin, KINO im Kulturhaus Spandau, Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / ART FAIRS
2027 Past Futures, Future Pasts, SF State University, San Francisco
2026 Overexposed, International Center for Photography, New York
2024 Revenir, Mucem, Marseille, France
2024 Stitching Keffiyehs: Moving Images from Palestine, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
2023 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum & Asian Art Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
2023 In Transit, the Body as Currency, Artworks for Freedom virtual gallery
2022 Inner Sanctum, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Greece 2022 Glad We Made It On Time, in collaboration with Asian Art Museum, Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 Myth for Four, by Zamin Project, Hamzianpour & Kia Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 Poetry is Not a Luxury, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
2021 Converging Lines: Tracing the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the U.S., Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.
2021 Reality Check, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, Greece
2020-21 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2020 Poetry is Not a Luxury, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
2020 Home/Body, Aron Art Center, Mills College, Oakland (online due to Coronavirus)
2020 Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes, Holding House Gallery, Detroit
2019 Silent Narratives, Yinchuan MOCA, Yinchuan, China
2019 Poetry is Not a Luxury, The Center for Book Arts, New York City
2019 Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes, Minnesota Street Project, Gallery 107, San Francisco
2019 Echoes: From There to Here, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
2018 The Shape of Birds: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
2018 Altered, Gallery #106, Minnesota Street Project, Curated by OFF Space, San Francisco
2018 PHOTOFAIRS SF, Connected: The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
2017 What Makes Us?, Focus Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Jersey
2017 Detritus, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose
2017 Aggregate Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland
2016 Creation Stories, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Jersey
2016 PULSE New York, Art Fair, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, New York City
2016 Bring It Home: (Re)Locating Cultural Legacy Through the Body, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries
2016 Artstar, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
2015 UNTITITLED, Art Fair, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Miami Beach
2015 Editions/Artist’s Book Fair, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, New York City
2015 Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party – Making a Scene, SOMArts, San Francisco
2014 The Chasm Arena, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2013 Women Redrawing the World Stage, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York City
2012 The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, New Jersey (multi-venue exhibition, conceived and produced by Rutgers Institute for Women and Art)
2009 Proliferations, Rhodes & Fletcher, LLC, Curated by OFF Space, San Francisco
2007 Internal Exile: From Palestine to the U.S.A. to Mexico, SOMArts, San Francisco
2007 The Token Woman Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Plastic Arts, Middle East University, Sabtieh, Lebanon
2005 Journée des Peintres, Deir El-Qamar Festival, Chouf, Lebanon
2004 Journée des Peintres, Deir El-Qamar Festival, Chouf, Lebanon
2004 Beyond Tradition, Illusion Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait
1995 Printemps de la Peinture ’95, Martyr’s Square, Beirut, Lebanon
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2025 Leonardo-ASU Seed Grant
2024 Spirit of the Depths Artadia Award Distinction
2024 SF Bay Area Artadia Award recipient
2019 Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin, Best Experimental Film Award (for Slam Bang Blue), Berlin, Germany
2017 Aggregate Space Audience’s Award, Best Sound Design (for Homeland Insecurity), San Francisco
2016 Los Angeles Art-House Film Festival, Animation Category Winner (for Homeland Insecurity), Santa Monica
2015 Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, Special Selection Award (for Scenarios of Breaking Down a Wall), Los Angeles
2014 Perspectives: Here and There Residency, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2007 San Francisco Art Institute International Student Grant, San Francisco
2006 M. Hariri Scholarship, Beirut, Lebanon
2006 British Council, Beirut, Lebanon
2004 Vermont Studio Center Residency and Artist Grant, Vermont
2001 Vermont Studio Center Residency and Artist Grant, Vermont
1994 Sheikh Zayed Fine Arts Award, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
1991 Hariri Foundation Grant, Beirut, Lebanon
PANELS / LECTURES / JURIES
2025 International Women’s Day, Zeina Barakeh and Catharine Clark in Conversation, Institute of Contemporary Art San José, San José
2024 Living Room Light Exchange, Speaker, Confloptus, Oakland
2024 California College of the Arts, Class Guest Speaker, San Francisco
2022 Participant in Mama’s Shoes’ performance by Viktoria Naraxsa of Pussy Riot, produced by Queer Studio Team, stories by LGBTQ+ refugees from Russia and Ukraine. 2021 Global Art Dialogues: The Language of Sampling, Refusing Dispossession, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2020 Zeina Barakeh and Kathy Zarur in Conversation, Mills College, Department of Art & Visual Culture, Oakland
2020 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Working Group Sessions, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2019 Aggregate Animated Shorts Festival (3rd), Juror, San Francisco
2019 Wiki Loves Monuments U.S., Juror, online
2018 Wiki Loves Monuments U.S., Juror, online
2018 PHOTOFAIRS SF, Panelist, The Channel of Democracy, Fort Mason for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
2017 Wiki Loves Monuments U.S., Juror, online
2017 San Francisco Arts Commission, Juror, Individual Artist Commission Visual Grant Panel
2015 University of San Francisco, Class Guest Lecturer, The Third Half
2014 Goethe Institut and CalArts School of Critical Studies, Panelist, A Culture Beyond Crisis? Curating in a Time of Violence, Los Angeles
2014 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Panelist, The Chasm Arena, San Francisco
2012 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Guest Lecturer, The Middle East: Gender, Art, and Politics, New Jersey
2012 Rutgers University, Panelist, The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society in the Middle East Diaspora, New Jersey
2012 Ictus Gallery, Panelist, Jaffa Mangoes: History, Memory, and Myth, San Francisco
COLLECTION
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Jersey
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers, New Jersey
EDUCATION
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
BA, Interior Design, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon