EDUCATION
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / TUFTS UNIVERSITY,
Boston, Massachusetts:
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting and Photography
(2003)
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, Massachusetts:
Diploma in Photography and Installation
1999
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Medford, Massachusetts:
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA); FOCUS–Women and Art
May, 1999
L’ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS, Paris, France:
Curriculum in Painting and in Continuing Education (1990-1991)
Certificate in Drawing; “The Model” (‘1990)
Certificate in Painting; “The Portrait” (‘1991)
TRAINING & INSTRUCTION
Oumaima Soobarah–Painting (2-1/2 years)
Raveti Kapoor–Basic Art Techniques (1-1/2 years)
Garrett Gabrielson–Painting & Drawing (1 year)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, Massachusetts:
Instructor–Painting (2001- 2003)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lalla Essaydi: Arab Female Identity Fitchburg State University Museum, Fitchburg
February 3rd – April 15th 2016
Lalla Essaydi: Photographs, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
March 28, 2015 through August 04, 2015
Lalla Essaydi: New Work, San Diego Musuem of Art, San Diego, California
April – August 2016
Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism, Benjamin-Constant Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
January 31 – May 31, 2015
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 30, 2015 – September 28, 2015
Lalla Essaydi: Photographs 2005-13 The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
March 28 – August 4, 2015
Re-Orientations IDEA at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
March 25 – May 7, 2015
Lalla Essaydi: New Work, Ohio University Museum
January, February, & March 2015
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Iris & B. Gerald Canto Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Sanford, California
January 2015 – May 2015
Lalla Essaydi: Writing the Self, Writing Others, Bahrain National Museum
November 11 - December 17, 2014
Shared Realtiy, Tampere Art Museum + Backlight 2014 Photo Festival: Finland
September 6, 2014 – January 4, 2015
James Madison University Museum, Harrisonburg, VA
March – April 2014
Lalla Essaydi: New Beauty, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
February 6 - March 29, 2014
Lalla Essaydi: POÉSIE LUMIÈRE Galerie Tindouf, Marrakech, Morocco
December 28, 2013 – February 15, 2014
Lalla Essaydi: Beyond Time and Beauty, Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
November 14, 2013 – January 14, 2014
Lalla Essaydi: Beyond Beauty, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, London
October 24 – December 21, 2013
Lalla Essaydi, Miller Yezerski Gallery,
Boston, MA
September 6 – October 22, 2013
Lalla Essaydi: Writing Femininity, Writing Pleasure, Oakland University Art Gallery Rochester, MI
September 7 - October 13, 2013
Lalla Essaydi: BOUNDARIES, Amelia Johnson Contemporary,
Hong Kong, China
March 7 – April 6, 2013
Universe, Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
April 1 - June 1, 2012
Lalla Essaydi: Revisions, a Retrospective, Smithsonian African Museum of Art, Washington D.C.
April 4 - November 2012
Les Femmes du Magreb, Orientalist Museum, Doha, Qatar
March - June 2013
Harem, Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
November 3 - December 30, 2011
Les Femmes du Maroc, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
October 6 - December 3, 2011
Lalla Essaydi: Power of Writing, National Gallery, Tanger, Morocco
July 1 - August 30, 2011
Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc, National Gallery, Fes, Morocco
June 5 - July 25, 2011
Lalla Essaydi: Power of Writing, Bab Rouah National Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
April 1 - May 30, 2011
Harem, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
January 6, 2011
Harem, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
November 04 - December 31, 2010
Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
October 8 - December 15, 2010
Les Femmes du Maroc, Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
March – July 2010
Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc, Zimmerli Musem at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
January – May 2010
Aftermath, The 25th Alexandria Biennial for Mediterranean Countries Representing Morocco
December 17, 2009
Lalla Essaydi: Femmes du Maroc, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
September 26 - January 3, 2010
Les Femmes du Maroc, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
May 1 - June 30, 2009
Les Femmes du Maroc, Tindouf Gallery, Morocco
April 11 - June 1, 2009
Les Femmes du Maroc, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait
January 20 - March 5, 2009
Embodiment, an exhibition of installations, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
November 7 - January 3, 2009
Lalla Essaydi: Crossroads, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, United Kingdom
October 14 - November 8, 2008
Indelible: The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
October 10, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Les Femmes du Maroc, Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 20 - April 15, 2008
Les Femmes du Maroc, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
March 7 - April 5, 2008
Les Femmes du Maroc, Edwynn Houk Gallery New York, NY
September 28 - November 21, 2007
Les Femmes du Maroc, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
May 3 - June 30, 2007
Les Femmes du Maroc, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
September 8 - October 21, 2006
Converging Territories, The New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT
August 2 - October 4, 2006
Converging Territories, Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, CO
August 2 - September 16, 2006
Transgressions, Williams College Museum, Williamstown, MA
January 13 - April 2006
Converging Territories, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
March 10 - April 15, 2006
Converging Territories, Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA
January 6 - February 5, 2006
Converging Territories, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
December 1 - December 31, 2005
Converging Territories, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
July 17 - December 04, 2005
Embodiments, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
June 11 - July 23, 2005
Converging Territories, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
March 18 - April 19, 2005
Converging Territories, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
January 4 - March 20, 2005
Threshold, Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston, MA
September 10 - October 6, 2004
Photographs: Behind Closed Doors, The Lives of Women in Morocco, Schneider Gallery, Chicago
March 5 - April 24, 2004
Converging Territories, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
September 4 - September 30, 2003
Photography, One Person Show, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
December 2 - October, 2001