Annabel Daou
born 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon
lives and works in New York, New York
annabel daou’s work takes form in paper-based constructions, sound, performance, and video. Daou suspends, carves out, or records the language of daily life: from the ordinary or mundane, to the intimately personal and urgently political. In her performance work, she explores questions of trust, intimacy, cross-cultural exchange, and the operations of power. Her work frequently evokes moments of rupture and chaos but with the tenuous possibility for repair. Daou was born and raised in Beirut and lives in New York.
Daou’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at The National Museum of Beirut; DG Kunstraum, Munich; Arter, Istanbul and Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede. Recent solo exhibitions include War Games at Galerie Tanja Wagner (2024), DECLARATION at Ulrich Museum of Art (2022), and Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (2022). Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, ARTnews, and Canvas Magazine. Public collections include The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; The Warehouse, Dallas; The Morgan Library, New York; and The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Recent residencies include the Pollock-Krasner award at ISCP in New York and Haus Des Papiers in Berlin.
A monograph of her work will be published by Distanz Publishing Berlin in 2024.
selected works
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