RANIA MATAR

SELECTED UPCOMING AND RECENT SOLO EXHIBITS:

2016
Becoming: Girls, Women and Coming of Age - Pulse Miami Art Fair, Pictura Gallery, USA
Becoming: Girls, Women and Coming of Age - Pictura Gallery, Bloomington Indiana USA
Deux Univers: Enfants et Femmes - Galerie Janie Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon

2015
Becoming: Girls, Women and Coming of Age - East Wing Gallery, Dubai
A Girl and Her Room, Galerie Eupenspiegel, Basel Switzerland 

2014
Women of the Middle East, Toot Yung Art Gallery, Bangkok Thailand
Ordinary Lives, Arab-American Museum, Dearborn Michigan, USA
Deserted Spaces and Ordinary Lives, 
curated by Kinzelman Art Fotofest 2014, Bank of American Center, Houston TX, USA
Women of the Middle East, Alliance Francaise de Singapore, Singapore

2013
L'Enfant-Femme, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
A Girl and Her Room, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, DE
A Girl and Her Room, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE

2012 – 2013
Ordinary Lives: Women of the Middle East, Sana Gallery, Singapore

2012
A Girl and Her Room,
SouthEast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
A Girl and Her Room, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon, USA
Girls In Between: Portraits of Identity Photographic Resource Center Boston, Massachusetts, USA
A Girl and Her Room, Leica Gallery, Warsaw, PL
A Girl and Her Room, Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
A Girl and Her Room, Leica Headquarters Gallery, Solms, DE
A Girl and Her Room , Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, LB
A Girl and Her Room, The Foster Gallery, Dedham Massachusetts, USA

2011
A Girl and Her Room, The Mosaic Rooms at the A.M Qattan Foundation, London, UK
Portraits of Teenagers, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA
A Girl and Her Room, De Santos Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA,

2010
A Girl and Her Room, Gallery of Photography B&B, Bielsko Biala, PL
A Girl and Her Room, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
A Girl and Her Room, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2009
Ordinary Lives, The Mosaic Rooms Gallery, London UK
Ordinary Lives, Mt Ida College Gallery, Brookline Massachusetts, USA
Ordinary Lives, MANEGE, by invitation, St. Petersburg RU
Ordinary Lives, The Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ordinary Lives, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, LB

2008
Contrapuntal Lines, A tribute to Edward Said, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
Women of Islam in the Aftermath of War, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lebanon at the Crossroads, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, USA
The Veil, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Texas, USA
The Veil, Council for Foreign Relations, New York City, New York, USA
Lebanon at the Crossroads, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Aftermath of War, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon, USA

2007
The Veil, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
The Veil, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA



SELECTED UPCOMING AND RECENT GROUP EXHIBITS: 

2017
Aftermath: The Fallout of War - America and the Middle East, Harn Museum of Modern Art, Gainesville Florida, USA
Photographing the Female, Focus Photography Festival, Sun Mill Studios Compound Lower Parel, Mumbai, India (March) 

2016
Mortal Things: Portraits Look Back and Forth, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
A Fragile Balance - Flash Forward Photo Festival, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston Massachusetts, USA
She Who Tells A Story - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA

2015
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg Pennsylvania, USA. 
'She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and The Arab World'', Cantor Arts Center,
San Francisco California, USA. 
'Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition' - National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Menschenskinder: Children's Worlds Between Desire and Reality - Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany

2014
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, College of William an Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

A Source of Identity: Contrasting Personal Environments,
Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Outspoken: Six Women Photographers , Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy,
Milton, New England, USA

The Middle East Revealed: A Female Perspective, Howard Greenberg Gallery,
New York, New York, USA

Beirut: Bridge to Palestine,
Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, LBN

The Other and Me, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah UAE

Ladies Only – Contemporary Women 
Photographers, Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi Georgia.


2013
“She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and 
The Arab World”, Exhibition curated by Ms. Kristen Gresh, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

International Photography Festival of Rome 
Book Exhibition, curated by Douglas Stockdale, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fotografia 2012, Rome, IT


2012
Women on the Verge, Women Photographers from the 
Middle East, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, UAE


2011
A Girl and Her Room, curated by Robert Morton, Lishui Photo Festival, China

Ordinary Lives, Rome Photo Festival, Rome, IT

Rebirth, Beirut Exhibition Center, curated by Janine Maamari and Danièle Giraudy, 
Conservateur Général des Musées de France, Beirut, LBN

Winner Legacy Award 2011, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

Photo National 2011, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine, USA

Off the Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

Exposure 2011, Photographic Resource Center: Exposure 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA


2010
Group Exhibition, curated by Dr. Jörg Colberg, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

Group Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland Oregon, USA

I-95 Triennial Invitational Exhibition, University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono Maine, USA
Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen, Koksijde Belgium: Act of Faith Noorderlicht Photography, Groningen, NL

International Art of the Lebanese Diaspora winners exhibition, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, LBN


2009 - 2010
Beyond Place: Recent Photography Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA


2009
Three Concerned Women, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

New England Photographer’s Biennial, Danforth Museum of Art,
New England Photographer’s Biennial, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, NL


2008
MCC Grant Recipients Exhibition, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Photographs of Children from the 
Permanent Collection, De Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA


2007
MCC Grant Recipients Exhibition, Arsenal Center for the Arts,
Watertown, Massachusetts, USAHouston Center for Photography, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Anne Tucker,

Moving Walls International, sponsored by OSI, Soros Foundation, Espace SD, Beirut, LB.


2006
9th International Photography Gathering,
Le Pont Gallery, Aleppo Syria


MONOGRAPHS PUBLICATIONS: 

2012
A Girl and Her Room, by Umbrage Editions NY, essays by Anne Tucker, curator of photographs Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Susan Minot, author of Evenings and Monkeys


2009
Ordinary Lives,
by the Quantuck Lane Press and WW Norton, NY, essay by the late Anthony Shadid, 2004 and 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for international reporting, and poetry by American-Palestinian poet Lisa Majaj.


SELECTED RECENT HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS:


2012
A Girl and Her Room selected best book of 2012: Photo-Eye, PDN, Journal de la Photographie, Feature Shoot, USA


2011
The George Gund Foundation Annual Report 2011 Commission Award

The Legacy Award 2011, Griffin Museum of Photography, awarded by Ms. Debra Klomp, 
Klomching Gallery New York, New York, USA

Recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship 2011 & 2007 , USA

First Prize “Off the Wall” 2011, Danforth Museum of Art, by Ms. Susan L. Stoops curator of 
Contemporary Arts, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachussets, USA


2012
Runner-Up: L’Enfant-Femme, Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship Competition 
2012, Juror’s Commendation Award, Juror: Ms. Julie Saul, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA


2011
Finalist, The European Publishers Award for Photography 2011, juried by 5 European 
publishers: Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), 
Kehrer Verlag (Germany) and Peliti Associati (Italy)


2010
Winner Honorable Mention UNICEF Picture of the year award 2010, A Girl and her Room
COLOR Magazine Portfolio Spotlight Award 2010

People's Choice Award, A Girl and her Room, for finest photography in New England, USA

Top 50 Winner, Critical Mass, Photolucida 2010 (2009, 2008, 2007)

Winner 2nd Place for Px3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris for the Aftermath

Winner 3rd Place: Art of the Lebanese Diaspora, Beirut, LB

Honorable Mention: CENTER Project Competition Award, 2010 A Girl and her Room, Santa Fe New Mexico, USA

Honorable Mention: CENTER Curator’s Choice Award, A Girl and her RoomSanta Fe New Mexico, USA


2009
Winner First Place: Best Photo Essay the 2009 Ippies Award: Refugees: Aftermath of War in
Lebanon, published in Nueva Luz #13, by the New York Community Media Alliance , USA


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS:

2016
'Au Lendemain de l'Enfance' Maire Claire, December 2016
'Rania Matar: Invisible Children at C. Grimaldis Gallery' Photograph: November 2016
De Méres en Filles, Pour Devenir Femmes..." L'Orient Le Jour November 2016'
Rania Matar: Deux Univers, Filles et Femmes' Le Commerce du Levant November 2016
'Looking at the Invisible Children Growing Up as Refugees' Hyperallergic: 4 October, 2016


2013
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, MFA Exhibition Book, Kristen Gresh and Michket Krifa 

2014 
Bridge to Palestine – Beirut Exhibition Center with Mark Hachem Gallery, Exhibition Catalog
L’Oeil de la Photographie: Interview with Elizabeth Avedon
Fraction Magazine: Women Coming of Age – A Work in Progress by Rania Matar,
The Huffington Post: Four Contemporary Women Photographers Who Put The Middle East in 
Perspective
CBS News: Women Photographers of the Middle East
The Detroit News: Striking Museum Exhibit Reveal Everyday Life, Michael Hodges
Femina Magazine, Sweden: Women to Watch in 2014
EXIT Imagen y Cultura, What Remains,


2013

Le Monde Diplomatique, Magazine M:
“Chambres d’ados avec point”, Emilie Grangeray, 

Kurier, Austria - Kultur section:
Junge Frauen in ihren privaten, Gemachern, Interview 
Mathias Morscher
REORIENT Middle Eastern Art and Culture Magazine: Ordinary Lives: Women from the 
Middle East, Joobin Bekhrad


2012

Doc! Photo Magazine,
Portfolios: Rania Matar
The Strait Times, Life section, Singapore: "Make Room for Girl" by Akshita Nanda
Bloomberg News,
by Frederik Balfour in Hong Kong, Sana Gallery Exhibition Review
Visual Art Source,
Blue Sky Gallery Exhibit Review, Richard Speer
Boston Globe:
Photographing the Transition from Girl to Woman, Exhibition Review, Mark 
Feeney
Landscape Stories Book, Exhibition and Magazine, Italy:
Adolescence, Gianpaolo Arena,
Ariadne Photo Gallery, Athens Greece,
You are my Mirror, exhibition catalog
Daytona Beach News Journal:
Photos capture girls caught “between two worlds”, Rick de 
Yampert
Gente di Fotografia Photography Magazine,
Italy, Portfolio: A Girl and Her Room
Marie Claire, Greece:
Keep Out -- A Girl and Her Room
Photo District News:
Girl Uninterrupted, PDN pick of the month,
GEO Magazine, Germany:
KOSMOS: A Girl and Her Room,
De Morgen Newspaper, Belgium: Mijn kamer, mijn koninkrijk (A Girl and Her Room), 
Charlotte Van Hacht, June 2012
The Daily Mail, UK, A Girl and Her Room, by Olivia Flemming, June 2012



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