Annabel Daou

Born

Beirut, Lebanon

Education

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions / Performances

2025

as if they were sure to find their way, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2024

what is left of us, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

War Games, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2022

Only If, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

Gods and Grifters, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

What can I do? What should I do? What will I do? (performance) Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS

Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA

DECLARATION, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

2021

A Year Like Any Other, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

I will worry for you (from dusk till dawn), 12 hour performance, School, Vienna, Austria

2020

Chou Hayda, online exhibition, Signs and Symbols, New York

ask me a question that has no answer, online exhibition, Signs and Symbols, New York

I will worry for you (from dusk till dawn), 12 hour performance, Brooklyn, NY

WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, Signs and Symbols, New York

2019

Fortune, (June–December) performance in-residence, Signs and Symbols, New York

2018

If you only knew, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Chou Hayda, The National Museum of Beirut, Beirut

life itself, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2016

I don't care about your body, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2015

a million times, Albertz Benda, New York, NY

2014

your secret is safe with me, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

fortune/Meanwhile…History, Global Art Forum, Dubai

measure, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2013

Fortune, PS1 MoMA, New York, NY

2012

you say i want a revolution, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

come back to the war, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2010

repaired landscapes, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2009

knot, David Winton Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

2007

Sex & Politics, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

a book of hours, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2006

AMERICA, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Why We Do What We Do, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

We, Such Fragile Beings, Podo Museum, Jeju Island, South Korea

flicker / reform / dissolve, signs and symbols / Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY

Breath is Tide, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Paper & Sound, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2024

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, Temporary Art Platform, Beirut, Lebanon

Cut, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany

2023

False Friend, Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY

Hallen #4, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany

The Delicate Things That Girls Do, signs and symbols, NY

Videotheque, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany

2022

In search of…the miraculous, DG Kunstraum, Munich, Germany

Artists and Allies V, Signs and Symbols, New York

2021

Works on Paper, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany

That was then, this is now, signs and symbols, New York, NY

All I Think About is You, Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin

Artists and Allies IV, Signs and Symbols, New York

Trauma and Response, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX

How To Human, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2020

On Celestial Bodies, Arter, Istanbul

Artists and Allies III, Signs and Symbols, New York

Spring of 2020, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Dissolving Artifacts, 10 Jay Street, Brooklyn

2019

Artists and Allies II, Signs and Symbols, New York

The Naked Truth. A European History, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede

The Living Room UIT (Use It Together), ISCP, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Privacy in Public, Metropolitan New York Library Council, New York

Artists and Allies, Signs and Symbols, New York

2017

Fünfter Akt, Trabanten, Düsseldorf

Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO

2016

Acts of Sedition, WhiteBox, New York

Stages of Trust, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz

2015

What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Territoire d'Affects, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut

2014

Art=Text=Art, Private Languages/Public Systems, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2013

Marking Language, Drawing Room, London

2012

Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Art=Text=Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2011

Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2010

Cairo Biennale (representing the US), Cairo

On the Mark, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2009

Close Encounters 2, organized by Provisions Library, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY

New York New Drawings 1946–2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia

2008

Political/Minimal, KW, Berlin

Democracy in America, Creative Time at The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Indexical Frontiers, Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2006

Drawn Twice, The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

2005

The Dreamland Artist's Club, presented by Creative Time, Coney Island, NY

1994

Quinta Bienal de La Habana (The Fifth Biennial of Havana), Havana

Residencies & Awards

2023

Paper Residency, Haus Des Papiers, Berlin, Germany

2019–2020

Pollock-Krasner ISCP Residency

2011

CentralTrak, Dallas, TX

2010

Biennial Award, Cairo Biennale (representing the US)

2008

Brown Foundation Residency, Dora Maar House (MFAH), Ménerbes

2002–07

EFA Studio Center Residency, New York, NY

Public Collections

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

The Morgan Library & Museum

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

The Warehouse, Dallas, TX

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba

The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey

Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Teaching and Artist Visits

2023–24

Adjunct Associate in the Art History Department of Barnard College, New York, NY

2023

Visiting Artist, Cornell Professional Practice Class, New York, NY

2018

Visiting Artist, Barnard College, New York, NY

2014

Visiting Artist, Senior Visual Arts Majors' Review, Barnard College, New York, NY

2013

Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2011

Visiting Professor, Spring Term, Meadows Art School, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

2007

Visiting Artist, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Arts Organization Work & Community Engagement

2019–

The Lobby, Brooklyn, New York (thelobbynyc.com) — collaborative exhibition project in the lobby of a residential building in South Williamsburg

2013–14

Co-founder and Director of S2A, a subterranean platform for art projects in New York City

2006–14

Co-founder and Director of dBfoundation. Selected dBfoundation projects:

2014

Aporia: Aporia: Aporia: The Search for Our Aporia, "A Wicked Project," EFA Project Space, New York, NY

2010

We Are Not an Arab Artist, "New York Chronicles," Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar

2009

Home Base IV, New York, NY (installation and performance)

CAFÉ at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (six month installation and interactive public programming)

2008

i prefer not, project for Democracy in America, Creative Time at The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Disarmory, an Art Fair (curatorial project and performance series), New York, NY

2007

aporia:aporia, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2006

aporia, EFA Gallery, New York, NY (curatorial project and exhibit)

Writing, Editing & Publishing

2020

A Live Declaration: collaboration with Fawz Kabra & Gabriel Cyr — a vinyl album recorded live at signs and symbols

2019

Co-author, "Sounding the Museum: A Shared Reflection on the Chou Hayda (What is this?) Intervention at the National Museum of Beirut," Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 62, Issue 3

2017

Author, "Revisiting america: The Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms," The Lantern

2012

Collaborator (with David Markus), "Sex and Politics Revisited," Transmission Annual (Provocation), Artwords, London, UK

2008

Editor and contributor, The DISARMORY, an edition of 10,000 newspapers produced in conjunction with Disarmory

2007

Editor and contributor, Impossibility Made Easy, exhibition catalog for aporia:aporia, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

Designer, National Reality, a broadsheet by Greta Byrum

2006

Editor and contributor, heuristics, exhibition catalog for aporia at EFA Gallery, New York, NY

Artist Talks & Discussion Panels

2022

Being Numerous (artist talk), Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas

Global Spotlight (virtual artist talk), moderated by Blair Murphy, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia

2020

Artist talk with Fawz Kabra & Gabriel Cyr, A Postcard from the Volcano, ISCP Artists at Work Livestream

2018

Panelist, Museum Objects as Subjects, Beit Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

2014

Presenter, The Sexuality of Words, a symposium at UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Artist talk, "Against Identity (I used to be a painter)," Montclair State University

2013

Panelist, The Small Movements of Language, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2012

Organizer and participant, Our Backs Against the Wall, panel discussion, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Presenter, Contemporary Art Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Artist talk, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Artist talk, David Winton Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

2008

Artist talk, "In Conversation with Aaisha," Across Histories, ArteEast, New York, NY

2007

Panelist, Curatorial Happy Hour, EFA Gallery, New York, NY

Symposium organizer and panelist, Impossibility Made Easy, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Panelist, Cities, Art and Recovery, Artists in Conversation, Vera List Center, The New School, New York, NY