Rayyane Tabet

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Rayyane Tabet
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Ashqout, Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon
Alma mater Cooper Union,
University of California, San Diego
OccupationVisual artist

Rayyane Tabet (born 1983) is a Lebanese visual artist, known for his sculpture.

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Early life and education

Rayyane Tabet was born in 1983 in Ashqout, Lebanon. [1] [2] [3] He has training as an artist and as an architect, and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree (2008) from Cooper Union, and a MFA degree (2012) from the University of California, San Diego. [2] [4]

Art career

Tabet is a visual artist, known for his sculpture. [5] [6] [7] He has lived and worked in both Beirut and San Francisco. [2]

Much of Tabet's work is based on research and mostly about socio-political history, informed by architecture. [8]

The Five Distant Memories series was work from 2006 until 2016, about the transformation of Tabet's early childhood memories in relationship to objects, and situations. [9] His first solo exhibition in Italy was La Mano De Dios (2016) at the Marino Marini Museum, which included work from his Five Distant Memories series. [9]

In 2019, the exhibition Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and displayed the museum's orthostat reliefs and Tabet's graphite transfers, Orthostates, in tandem with his family heirlooms. The exhibition explores the task of locating and tracing provenance, particularly through reference to the Alien Property Act and the objects purchased at auction by the museum after they had been seized by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. It conveys the fragmentation and division as Tell Halaf sat at the center of political governance and conflict. It also addresses the role of an encyclopedic museum in conversation and collaboration with the past, and its voices. [10]

Tabet was selected to participate in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled "Quiet as It's Kept" curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin. [11]

Tabet has been awarded the Emerging Artist Award of the Sharjah Biennial (2011); the Jury Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2012); and the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013). [8] His work can be found in public museum collections including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [12]

Exhibitions

Awards and residencies

Publications

In 2018, Tabet published FRAGMENTS/BRUCHSTÜCKE, published by Kunstverein, Hamburg, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program & KAPH Books.

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Rayyane Tabet's first US museum commission opens at the Walker". Artdaily.com. June 12, 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  3. ↑ "Desert X Releases Artist List for Controversial Exhibition in Saudi Arabia". Artforum.com. January 17, 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  4. ↑ "Rayyane Tabet". Sharjah Art Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  5. ↑ "Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 30, 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  6. ↑ Cotter, Holland (2012-02-16). "Quiet Disobedience". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  7. ↑ Donadio, Rachel (2015-12-04). "Aishti Foundation Puts Shimmering Works Amid the Turmoil of Beirut". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  8. 1 2 Cezar, Aaron. "Rayyane Tabet: Encounters". Living Content. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  9. 1 2 "Rayyane Tabet. La Mano De Dios". Interni Magazine. June 9, 2016. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  10. ↑ Benzel, Kim; Tabet, Rayyane; Davies; Clare (2019). Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  11. ↑ Mitter, Siddhartha (2022-01-25). "Whitney Biennial Picks 63 Artists to Take Stock of Now". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  12. ↑ Alteveer, Ian; Baum, Kelly; Benzel, Kim; Beyazit, Deniz; Bincsik, Monika; Biro, Yaëlle; Byck, John; Candela, Iria; Carpenter, John T. Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2018–20: Part II: Late Eighteenth Century to Contemporary. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 44.
  13. ↑ "Arabesque, 2023".
  14. ↑ "The Return, 2023".
  15. ↑ "Arabesque, 2021".
  16. ↑ "A Sun Yellow with Anger, 2020".
  17. ↑ "Fragments, 2018".
  18. ↑ "ONLY GODS NEVER DIE, 2015".
  19. ↑ "The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, 2013".
  20. ↑ "Moving Homes, 2006".
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