b.1989 Beirut, Lebanon | Lives and works in New York.
- Contact: info@lara-atallah.com
- Shop: Edge of Elysium Vol.1, through Open Projects Press
Education
MFA Photography, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, USA, 2014
BFA Graphic Design, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011
Solo Exhibitions
- The World Is an Island, Home Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
- A moratorium on looking , Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, 2019
- Threshold, ON CANAL, New York, NY, 2018
- If Walls Could Talk, Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, 2012
Selected Group Exhibitions
- The earth leaked red ochre, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
- To Make is to Stay, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI, 2022
- ArteEast Legacy Trilogy, New York, NY, 2021
- Echo Exhibit, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, 2020
- Watch it burn, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
- Women to the Front, Superchief Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
- Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World, American University Museum Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C, 2018
- Dense bodies bend solid ground, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, New York, 2018
- American Workforce, Ray Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
- 10:52, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2016
- Platform, New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
- Talent Archive, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece, 2015
- You Art What You Eat, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, 2015
- ArtTakes Miami, SCOPE Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL, 2014
- #IRL In Real Life, Sheila Johnson Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
- Future Projections, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand, 2014
- INTERVALS, Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
- Align, Atrium Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
- Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China, 2012
- PIP,Ping Yao International Photography Festival, Ping Yao, China, 2012
- Shabab Ayyam, Ayyam Gallery, Al Qoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2011
Public Commissions
- Sweet Tooth, Antepli Baklava, Bay Ridge SAW, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Artist Book Publications
- Edge of Elysium, Vol.1, Open Projects Press, September 2019 (artist book edition of 100)
Book Fairs
- Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, 2021 (online)
- Tokyo Art Book Fair, November 2020 (online)
- Vancouver Art Book Fair, October 2020 (online)
- Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair, June 2020 (online)
- Zonamaco Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2020
- Odds & Ends Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, December 2019
- New York Art Book Fair, MoMA-PS1, Long Island City, NY, September 2019
Public Collections
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY
- NYU Langone Art Collection, New York, NY
- Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
Awards / Residencies
- Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI, 2021
- Trestle Gallery Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
- Artist on Art Tours Fellowship- OLANA 2018, Olana State Historic Museum, NY, USA, 2018
- Georgia Fee Residency, Paris, France, 2015
- Khaled Eid Samawi Scholarship, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2012
Press / Reviews
- Corwin, William, The earth leaked red ochre, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2022
- ArteEast Artist Spotlight, ArteEast, April 2021
- Oppenheim, Sheryl, Challenging Borders, BOMB Magazine, September 2020
- Khraibani, Sahar, Excavating A Point of Entanglement,Terse Journal, September 2019
- Heing, Bridey, The exhibition in the US showcasing the Arab world through an alternate lens, The National, November 2018
- Goodman, Elyssa, Meet the Photographer Exploring Place and Identity Through the Sea, Cool, October 2018
- Bury, Louis, Lara Atallah’s Mediterranean Whispers at ON CANAL, Whitehot Magazine, August 2018
- Davies, Catriona, Young upstarts plotting Mid East art revolution, CNN, May 2012
Bibliography / Print & Web
- Source Material, Humble Arts Foundation | March 2018
- Tribe Magazine | Issue 6 | March 2018
- YO-NEWYORK | Issue 4 | September 2017
- Flat Magazine | Issue 3 | May 2017
- ArtMaze Magazine | Launch Issue | January 2017
- Rusted Radishes | Issue 5 | November 2016
- C41 Magazine | Web feature | October 2016
- Canvas Magazine | Light | March 2015
- Musée Magazine | No.10, Volume 2, Ritual | November 2014
- Arabnews.com | Review | June 2012
Talks
- Outline, Afikra, October 2021
- NYC Cultural Majlis, New York, NY, August 2020
- New York Photo Salon, School of Visual Arts, January 2016