Kabul, 1973. Vive e lavora a Los Angeles e Kabul.
Prima artista del suo paese a rappresentare l’Afghanistan alla 51esima edizione della Biennale di Venezia nel 2005, è stata quindi selezionata per partecipare a numerose Biennali e Triennali: Bienniale di São Paulo 2006; Bienniale di Gwangju 2006; Bienniale di Mosca 2007; Sharjah Biennial 2007; Göteborg Biennial 2007; Biennale di Venezia 2015; Triënnale Brugge 2015; Dhaka Art Summit 2014 – 2016; Busan Biennale 2016; Istanbul Biennial 2022. La sua opera è inoltre stata presentata in numerose mostre internazionali, tra cui: Istanbul Modern, Istanbul; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem; Miami Central, Miami; ICA Toronto, Toronto; ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe; Capc, Bordeaux; CAC, Brétigny; Frac Lorraine, Metz; Musée Chagall, Nice; National Museum, Kabul; Tate Modern, London; MOMA, New York; Location One, New York; OK Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz; Western Front Exhibitions and Centre A, Vancouver; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne; Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; Louis Vuitton Espace, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; CAC, Málaga; Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris; MART, Rovereto; Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Fondazione Merz, Torino; CAP, Lyon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Ha vinto il Taiwan Award (2005), il Premio Pino Pascali (2005), il Prince Claus Award (2006), l’UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts (2007) ed è stata finalista della Prima edizione Mario Merz Prize (2015). Il suo lavoro compare in numerose collezioni private e pubbliche, tra le quali quella del Frac Lorraine, Metz; della GAM, Torino; della Fondation Louis Vuitton, Parigi; del MOMA, New York; del Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; e della Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.
Istruzione e residenze
M.F.A., University of California, Irvine, California
B.A., Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, California
B.A., Political Science, California State University, Fullerton, California
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Intra-Nation Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta
Cité International Residency, Parigi
Premi
2015
Finalist Mario Merz Prize 1, Fondazione Merz, Torino
2007
UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah
Shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Prize 2008, Cardiff, Wales
2006
Prince Claus Cultural Award, Amsterdam
2005
Taiwan Award, 51st International Art Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
Pino Pascali Award, Polignano a Mare, Bari
Selezione mostre personali
2018
Lida Abdul, Time, Love and the Workings of Anti-Love II, Giorgio Persano gallery, Progetto Fo.To, Torino
2015
CAP Centre, Lione
2014
Lida Abdul, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Parigi
2013
Lida Abdul, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbona
What We Have Overlooked, Giorgio Persano Gallery, Torino
Videotank #7: Lida Abdul, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Quebec
Lida Abdul, Centro De Arte Contemporáneo De Málaga, CAC Málaga
2010
Lida Abdul, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, a cura di Tumelo Mosaka
2008
In Transit, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, a cura di Martin Sturm
In Transit, Giorgio Persano Gallery, Torino
In Transit, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse Art Festival, Toulouse, a cura di Odile Biec
Lida Abdul, Western Front Exhibitions and Centre A, Vancouver, a cura di Candice Hopkins e Makiko Hara
Lida Abdul, IDEA Space, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Lida Abdul, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, a cura di Sarah Urist Green
Lida Abdul, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Roma
Lida Abdul, GSK Contemporary Royal Academy of Arts, Londra
2007
Lida Abdul, Musée Chagall, Nizza, a cura di Maurice Fréchuret
Lida Abdul, Musée national Picasso, Vallauris, a cura di Maurice Fréchuret
Lida Abdul, ICA Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, a cura di Scott McLeod
Lida Abdul, National Museum of Kabul, Kabul
What We Saw Upon Awakening, Location One, New York, a cura di Pieranna Cavalchini
White House, Netwerk Centrum voor hedendaagse, Aalst, a cura di Ronny Heiremans
Modern Mondays, MoMA, New York, a cura di Barbara London
2006
Petition for Another World, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, a cura di Mirjam Westen
Lida Abdul, Giorgio Persano Gallery, Torino
After War Games, Musées Palais du Tau de Reims, Reims, a cura di Jerome Descamps
Pino Pascali Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Polignano a Mare, a cura di Rosalba Brana
Now, Here, Over There. Lida Abdul/Tania Bruguera, FRAC Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, a cura di Béatrice Josse
What We Saw Upon Awakening, CAC Brétigny Centre d’art contemporain, Brétigny, a cura di Pierre Bal-Blanc
2005
Afghan Pavilion, 51st International Art Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, Ursula Blickle Videolounge, a cura di Gerald Matt
Selezione mostre collettive
2022
17th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Home, MMoCA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison
The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East, curated by Sara Raza, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford
2021
Memory of Defence: Physical and Mental Architectures, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma
L’altro, lo stesso, ZACentrale, curated by Beatrice Merz and Agata Polizzi, Palermo
The Literacy of Failure, Lumen Quarterly 2021, VCD, Beijing
Quatra Quatra (Drop by Drop), Galleria delle Prigioni, Treviso
2020
Emptiness equality, Nuova Delhi
Lahore Biennale, 2nd ed., Lahore
2019
Truth is flexible, Akershus Art Centre, Lillestrøm
Entropie, j’écris ton nom, MAGASIN des horizons, Grenoble
Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
Iinitude. Es Baluard Collection, BIENALSUR and Es Baluard, Centro Cultural Kirchner – CCK, Buenos Aires
2018
Dal-Baħar Madwarha, St Elmo Examinations Centre, La Valletta
The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, GAM, Milano
She Devil X: resisters, Studio Stefania Mascetti, Roma
International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Armenia 2018 (ICAE2018), Yerevan
BILD MACHT RELIGION Kunst zwischen Verehrung, Verbot und Vernichtung, Kunstmuseum Bochum
Get Out of Art School, PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt
Territorios que importan: género, arte y ecología en Huesca, CDAN – Centro de Arte y Naturaleza. Fundación Beulas, Huesca
Film screenings, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery – Reed College, Portland
2017
Un-Official Stories, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Bolzano/Pontives
QUAD / FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby
The materiality of the invisible, Bureau Europa, Maastricht
States of Emergency, Imperial War Museum, Londra
2016
Mining Warm Data, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka
Inherit in the wind, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora
The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Surprise, Netwerk vzw, Aalst
Busan Biennale 2016, Busan
Social calligraphies, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Varsavia
2015
Mario Merz Prize. The 5 Finalists, Fondazione Merz, Torino
Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Parigi
A room of his own: masculinities in Korea and Middle East, Art Sonje Center, Pocheon
56. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione di Cuba
56. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione dell’Iran
Fairy tales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Triennale Brugge 2015, Bruges
Gimme Shelter – forts and fictions in the lowlands, KunstFort Asperen, Acquoy
Siderare, Fondazione Volume!, Roma
Everything must go: Art and the Market, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork
2014
Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan, 1979-2014, TCNJ Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey
Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka
Ravaged, Art and Culture in Times of Conflict, M-Museum Leuven, Leuven
Utopian Days x Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Beyond Pressure Public Art Festival, Yangon
Le Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Geneva
Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Stockholm, Stoccolma
White lest we forget, Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA), Limerick
La guerra che verrà non è la prima, MART Rovereto Trento
2013
Transition Project, Yapi and Kredi Art Center, Istanbul
43 Salón (inter) Nacional de Artistas, Medellín
2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
Nuit Blanche 2012, White Spirit at the Palais de Tokyo, Parigi
Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, a cura di Sara Raza
Shifting Sands: Recent Video from the Middle East, The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, The University of Texas, El Paso
1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo
2011
Beyond Memory, Museum on the Seam, Gerusalemme
Shift and Flow, Dorsky Gallery, New York
Roaming Images, MMCA, Salonicco
2010
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Gerusalemme
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Monument to Transformation, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagabria
Individual / War, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster (AZKM)
Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Human Condition, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2009
Moving Perspectives: Lida Abdul and Dinh Q Le, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington
The End, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berna
Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming – Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz
Futur, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Bilderschlachten, EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague, Praga
Stranded positions, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basilea
Riwaq Biennial, Ramallah
2008
4th Triennale of Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Biennale Cuvée, Ok Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand,
Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art, MART Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Loss, The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge
Yellow Cruise, Louis Vuitton Espace, Parigi
Artes Mundi 3rd Award Exhibition, National Museum of Cardiff
The Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Intimacies of Distant War, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York
2007
II Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Mosca, a cura di Rosa Martínez
VIII Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, a cura di Jack Persekian
Re-thinking Dissent, IV Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, a cura di Joa Ljungberg e Edi Muka
III Auckland Triennial, Auckland, a cura di Victoria Lynn
Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, a cura di Peter Weibel, Wonil Rhee, Catherine David
Memorial to Iraq War, with Sam Durant, Liam Gillick, Christoph Buchel, ICA, Londra, a cura di Mark Sladen
Timeout: Art and Sustainability, with On Kawara, Giovanni Anselmo, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, a cura di Friedemann Malsch
Selection São Paulo, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, a cura di Francisco Brugnoli
Global Feminisms, Feminist Biennale, Brooklyn Museum, New York, mostra itinerante, a cura di Maura Reilly e Linda Nochlin
Culture and Conflict, Stedelijk Het Domein, Sittard, a cura di Els van der Plas
Asian Attitude/Transient Forces, The National Museum in Poznan, Poland; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, mostra itinerante, a cura di Binghui Huangfu e Shen Qibin
Beyond the Dust, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli, a cura di Renata Caragliano
The Art of Reconciliation, Central Museum of Utrecht, a cura di Peter Stepan
Illuminations, Tate Modern, Londra, a cura diLucy Askew e Ben Borthwick
About time II, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
Relics and Ruins, Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, a cura di Alfons Hug
Soft Power, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, mostra itinerante, a cura di Shen Qibin
Riwaq Biennial, Ramallah, a cura di Charles Esche
2006
XXVII Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, co-curator Rosa Martinez
First Chapter Trace Root, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
The Doubtful Strait, A Visual Art Event, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica, curated by Virginia Pérez
Mens, S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium; K.U., Leuven, Belgium, curated by Philippe van Cauteren
Painting As a Way of Living, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Rosa Martínez
The UnQuiet World, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia, curated by Juliana Engberg
Undercurrents06, Göteborg Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden, curated by Dariush Moaven Doust
Courants Alternatifs, Le Parvis Centre d’art contemporain, Ibos-Tarbes, France, curated by Odile Biec
Courants Alternatifs, CAPC Musée d’Art contemporain, Bordeaux, France, curated by Maurice Fréchuret
Painting Ruins, Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul, Afghanistan, curated by Ali MacGlip
Fast Futures: Asian Video Art, Mumbai, India, curated by Johan Pijnappel
ACAW Asian Contemporary Art Week, Brooklyn Art Museum, New York, U.S.A.; Nafas, ifa Gallery Berlin; ifa Gallery Stuttgart, traveling show, curated by Pat Binder and Gerhard Haupt
Liberation, Tradition and Meaning/Women on the Edge of Culture, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
New territories, De Hallen, Bruges, Belgium, curated by Michel Dewilde
2005
Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place), with Andrea Fraser, Jimmie Durham, CAC Brétigny Centre d’art contemporain, Brétigny, France, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc,
Between the Furniture and the Building, FR66, Paris, France, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc
Wall to Destroyed, with Monica Bonvicini, Marguerite Duras, Gordon Matta-Clark, FRAC Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France
Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, Miami Central, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
In the Shadow of Heroes, Central Asian Biennale, Kyrgyz Republic, curated by Muratbek Djumaliev
Fm 5 Video Festival, Madrid, Spain, curated by Carolina Grau
Video Lounge, South London Gallery, London, U.K.
Vinyl, Redux Projects Gallery, London, U.K., curated by Peter Lewis
Taste of others, Apex Art, New York, U.S.A., curated by Leeza Ahmady
Defense, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California, U.S.A.
2004
Contemporaneity, Academy of Fine Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; National Museum of Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul
On healing, D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn, New York, a cura di Bruna Mori e Joe Santarromana
Poetics of Proximity, Chapman University, Orange, California
2003
Shibuya UNESCO Association, Tokyo
Alumni Show, University of California, Irvine, California
Colors of God, Layola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Open Ticket, Guggenheim Gallery Chapman College, Orange, California
Wide Awake, Highways, Los Angeles
ENTERINTERCESSOR, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Live Performance, Track-16, Irrational Exhibit 2, Santa Monica
2002
All Stars of LA Performance Art, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Hollywood
After the Ruins of Kabul, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., live performance e letture
After Ruins of Kabul, “Not in our Name”, The Palace Art Speak, Hollywood
Democracy When?, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Hollywood
After the Ruins of Kabul, Highways, Santa Monica
Project Enduring Look, Chicago Exhibition Studies Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
GENERATION WHY: ARTISTS OF CONSCIENCE SPEAK, Occidental College, Los Angeles
Performance Marathon, Theatre of NOTE, Hollywood
2001
Overflowing, Track-16, Santa Monica
The Gathering, Highways, Santa Monica,
Slam, Highways, Santa Monica
Live Performance, Track-16, Irrational Exhibit, Santa Monica
In Public, Art Center College Of Art and Design, Pasadena
CAPITAL ART, Track-16, Santa Monica
All Star of LA, Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, live performance
2000
Film Screening, Seiviglia
International Performance Festival Ex Teresa, Città del Messico
Unraveling, Live Performance SPE, San Diego
Hot&Sticky, Highways, Santa Monica
For Advocate, Unraveling Santa Monica, Highways, Santa Monica
New Media Visionaries, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles
33.3, Deep River, Los Angeles
2nd Coming, Orange County Contemporary Center for the Arts, Santa Ana, California
Arthouse, Irvine, California
Execution Funk, Track 16, Santa Monica
1999
Compulsive Beauty and its Discontents, University Gallery, California State University, Long Beach
Art History Department, University of California, Irvine, California
Hot&Sticky, Highways, Santa Monica.
Six Degrees, The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California
1997
Made in California, Brea Gallery, Brea, California
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, a cura di Tyler Stallings
COLLEZIONI
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
FRAC Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz
OK Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York