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Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art at the Cooper Union, New York. Raad’s works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow 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 in the Louvre, Paris; Documenta 11 and 13, Kassel, Germany; Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; the Venice Biennale, Italy; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Homeworks, Beirut, Lebanon; and other museums and venues throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.
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Walid Raad (Lebanese, b.1967) is an internationally known Contemporary artist working in media such as video, photography, and essays. He was born in Chbanieh, Lebanon. In 1989, Raad received a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, followed by a MA and PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies from the University of Rochester in New York in 1993 and 1996, respectively. His work focuses on the recent history of Lebanon, particularly the periods of war between 1975 and 1991; it often deals with traumatic events using various mediums.

Raad is a member of the Arab Image Foundation, and is active in describing the history of Lebanon. He co-curated Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, an exploration of Arab photography and its relationship to identity. In 1989, he founded The Atlas Group, which he uses to promote his work and get the message out on Lebanese history and war. It is a collection of films, videos, photographs, and other documents. The group is the brainchild of Raad. He has published several fictional books under the pseudonym Walter Konig, about the 14-year war in Lebanon. The goal of The Atlas Group is to create a fictional archive that criticizes traditional historical documentation methods and the autonomy of artistic work. Many of the fictional archives are featured in museums throughout the world. His work often examines the ways history is told, and how it can be manipulated. Some of his most famous works include Notebook Volume 38: Already Been in a Lake of Fire, BEY82_Artillery_II, and The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs.

Raad is also the recipient of the 2011 Hasselblad-Prize, the 2007 Alpert Award for Visual Arts, and the 2007 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. His works have been exhibited at Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, The Venice Bennale in Venice, Italy, The Whitney Biennial in New York, and The Ayloul Festival in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as other events and museums throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He currently lives in New York, where he is an associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.
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Walid Raad nasceu em 1967, em Chbanieh, Líbano. Sua trajetória acadêmica inclui: Boston University, 1984–85; Rochester Institute of Technology, formação Universitária em Belas Artes (fotografia), Rochester, NY, 1985-1989; University of Rochester, Mestrado em Estudos Culturais e Visuais, Rochester, NY, 1993, e University of Rochester, Doutorado em Estudos Culturais e Visuais, Rochester, Nova York, 1996. Walid fundou o Atlas Group em 1999, em Nova York. Como membro da Arab Image Foundation, Walid Raad foi co-curador com Akram Zaatari da instalação intitulada “Mapping Sitting”. O artista produz projeções em vídeo, instalações, foto-instalações e performances. Algumas mostras selecionadas são: No place, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, EUA; The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project by Walid Raad-Let’s be Honest, The Weather Helped, Hamburger Banhof, Berlim, Alemanha; Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, The Museum of Modern Art, Nova York, EUA; How Can You Resist, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istambul; Basel Theatre Festival, Basiléia; 50 Bienal de Veneza, Itália; Documenta11, Kassel, pela qual recebeu o prêmio Documenta Kassel 2002. Ele já obteve várias subvenções e bolsas ao redor do mundo. Sua obra encontra-se em coleções públicas tais como a do MoMA em Nova York, Tate em Londres e MuMOK em Viena.