SOLO EXHIBITIONS / FILM FESTIVALS / COMMISSIONS / PUBLIC ART
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)
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 Hippocampian Scrolls: Generation Alef, West Coast Craft, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
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
2016 The Life Model, On the Boards, Seattle (theater video commission)
2015 International Film Awards Berlin, KINO im Kulturhaus Spandau, Berlin, Germany
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / ART FAIRS
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. (upcoming)
2021 Reality Check, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, Greece (upcoming)
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
2020 Artadia Award Finalist, San Francisco
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
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