LALLA ESSAYDI

CURRICULUM VITAE
for complete CV, please click here.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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

Lalla Essaydi: Crossing Boundaries Bridging Cultures, Lalla Essaydi (ACR Edition, Paris), 2016.

Arab Photography Now, Rose Issa and Michket Krifa (Kehrer Verlag, Germany), 2012.

Les Femmes du Maroc, Lalla Essaydi (powerHouse Books, Brooklyn), 2009.

Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists, Fayeq S. Oweis (Greenwood Publishing), 2007.

Converging Territories, Lalla Essaydi (powerHouse Books, Brooklyn), 2005.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

The Ackland Art Museum , Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar

The Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore

The Bank Al-Maghrib Collection, Rabat, Morocco

The Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

The British National Museum, London, UK

The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis

The Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Museum, Stanford, CA

The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

The Colby Museum of Art, Maine

The Colorado Museum of Art, Colorado

The Columbus Museum Of Art, Ohio

The DeCodova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

DZ Bank, Kunstsammlung

Fondation Carmignac Gestion, Paris, France

The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

The Fondation Carmignac Gestion, Paris, France

The George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY

The Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

The Hearst Corporation, New York, US

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH The Mead art Museum, Amherst, MA

The Hunter Museum of American Art, TN

The Jordan National Museum of Art, Jordan

The Kresge Art Museum, Michigan

The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Virginia

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA

The LOUVRE Museum, Paris, France

The Lowe Art Museum, Miami

The Mead art Museum, Amherst, MA

The Maramotti Collection of Contemporary Art, Via Fratelli, Emilia, Italy

The Montana Museum of Art & Culture

Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

The Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, Germany

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ

The North Carolina Museum of Art, NC

The Private collection of Catherine Woloch Lavergne, Directeur General of Europe and Middle East. Christian Dior Couture

The Private collection of HRH Shaikha Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, UAE

The Private collection of HRH. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE

The Private collection of HRH. Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg

The Private collection of His Majesty, Mohammed VI of Morocco

The RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scott sdale, AZ

The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

Smithsonian African Museum of Art, Washington DC

The Spelman Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

The Williams College Museum of Art

Yannick And Ben Jakober Foundation Museum, Mallorca, Spain

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Present Tense: Prints from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT
September 29, 2016 - January 17, 2017

Écritures Contemporaines , Musée Champollion, Figeac, France
July 8 – November 3 2016, Opening Reception: July 7th

Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
May 29, 2016 – January 2, 2017

Material Culture, The William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California
August 26 – October 27, 2016

Alchemy: Transformations in Gold, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
February – May 2017
Exhibition will be traveling to another venue, to be announced.

One Belt One Road, Visual Arts Exhibtion 2016, Sotheby’s Honk Kong Gallery, Honk Kong
April 11, 2016 – August 15 2016

Re-Orientations, Colorado College
March 25 – May 7th 2015

Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism: Benjamin-Constant in his time Montreal, Canada
January 26th - May 31st 2015

National Museum of Art, Rabat, Morocco,
June 10th – September 30th

The World Bank Art Program, Washington DC
8 May – 30 August 2014

Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Cherye R. and James F. Pierce Collection Honolulu Museum of Art,
May 2014

Centre Culturel Le Botanique, Belgium
February – March 2014

FotoFest 2014 Biennial, Houston,
March – April 2014

i.d.e.a. Arizona Museum of Youth: A Way with Words, Arizona Museum of Youth,
October 4th – January 19, 2014

She who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Art Boston
August 27 – January 12, 2014

IN FOCUS: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
November 9 – December 30, 2012

In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in Front of the Camera, Newwark Museum
September 1st, 2012

A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, USC Fisher Museum of Art
September 5 – December 1, 2012

Sargazers: Elizabeth Catlett In Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists. Bronx Museum, NY
January 27 -May 29, 2011

Résonance : artistes contemporains marocains du monde Musée privé de Marrakech
October 7- November 7, 2010

“ Art of Today” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
June 10-30, 2010

Mapping Identity, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
March 19 April 30, 2010

"Out of the Box": Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA October 24, 2009 - October 2010

Camoufage, La Casa Enciendida, Madrid, Spain
September 17 – November 1, 2009

Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities Spelman College Museum of Fine
Art, Atlanta, GA
September 10 - December 5, 2009

Ingres et les Modernes, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
July 3-October 4, 2009

A Complex Weave:Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, The Stedman Gallery, Rutgers, NJ,
September 8-December 18 2009

Patern ID, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
January 23-May 9, 2010

Transitions. Painting at the (other) End of Art. The Moramotti collection of contemporary art, Emilia, Italy
(May 24 to October 31, 2009)

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
(January 31 - June 3, 2009)

Decoding Identity: I Do It for My People, Museum of The African Diaspora
(January 23, 2009 – March 8, 2009)

Timbuktu to Cape Town, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
(December 3 – March 22, 2009)

Photographic Figures, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
November 19 2008 – May 10, 2009

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body The Hood Museum of Art
March 28 through August 3, 2008

Far from Home, North Carolina Museum of Art
February 17-July 13, 2008

Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence, Chicago Art Institute,
Chicago, Illinois
December 8, 2007 Through February 24, 2008

Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children DeCordova Museum and Sculpture
Park, Lincoln, MA
February 2 – April 27, 2008

Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art,
Charlotte, NC
October 20 – December 30, 2007

Byond Likeness, North Dakota Museum of Art,
March 27 – May 13, 2007

“ON THE WALL: Aperture Magazine ‘05/06, Aperture Foundation New York, NY
January 11—March 8, 2007

“NAZAR” The National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
March 27 – April 22, 2007

“Don’t Know Much About History” Art Space, New Haven, CT
November 18 – January 20, 2007

“ Art That Matters: When Politics Get Personal” Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
November 4 – December 10, 2006

“The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation” Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
September 30, 2006–June 30, 2007

Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art John Michael Koehler Arts Center, Sheboygan

October 15 - December 30 2006

Images of the Middle East, “Identity in the Process of Change” Danish Center for Culture and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer /Fall, 2006

“NAZAR” in Berlin , IFA Gallery
January 2006 to March 2006

“NAZAR”, The IFA Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
November 2005 - January 2006

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Museum of Photographic arts, San Diego, CA
October 1 -December 31, 2005

The Painted Word, Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts Museum, Easton, PA,
October 28 – December 18, 2005

“NAZAR” Aperture Foundation, Chelsea, New York, NY
September 8, 2005

“NAZAR” Langhans Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
May 25-July 31, 2005

“Surface” Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
May 5- June 30, 2005

“The 2005 DeCordova Museum Annual Exhibitions
April 30 – July 31, 2005

“NAZAR” show at Houston Fotofestival
March 15 - 15 June, 2005

“Rewind/Re-Cast/Review, Photography show, The Ramapo College Art Galleries, NJ
February 15 - March 18, 2005

“In the Company of Women” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
October 30 - April 17, 2005

“About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection” Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
October 9, 2004–January 16, 2005

8th International Photography Gathering, Le Pont Gallery, Aleppo, Syria,
September 24-October 9, 2004

“NAZAR” –Photographs from the Arab World” Noorderlicht
April 8- June 11, 2005

Photographic Festival, Fries Museum: Through Arab Eyes. Leewarden, Netherlands.
5 September-January, 2005

“Some of Their Parts” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA (July 15-September 4, 2004)

CURRICULUM VITAE for complete CV, please click here.	RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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	Lalla Essaydi: Crossing Boundaries Bridging Cultures, Lalla Essaydi (ACR Edition, Paris), 2016. Arab Photography Now, Rose Issa and Michket Krifa (Kehrer Verlag, Germany), 2012. Les Femmes du Maroc, Lalla Essaydi (powerHouse Books, Brooklyn), 2009. Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists, Fayeq S. Oweis (Greenwood Publishing), 2007. Converging Territories, Lalla Essaydi (powerHouse Books, Brooklyn), 2005.
	PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky The Ackland Art Museum , Chapel Hill, North Carolina The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar The Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore The Bank Al-Maghrib Collection, Rabat, Morocco The Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine The British National Museum, London, UK The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis The Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Museum, Stanford, CA The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Colby Museum of Art, Maine The Colorado Museum of Art, Colorado The Columbus Museum Of Art, Ohio The DeCodova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA DZ Bank, Kunstsammlung Fondation Carmignac Gestion, Paris, France The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA The Fondation Carmignac Gestion, Paris, France The George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY The Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA The Hearst Corporation, New York, US The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH The Mead art Museum, Amherst, MA The Hunter Museum of American Art, TN The Jordan National Museum of Art, Jordan The Kresge Art Museum, Michigan The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Virginia The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA The LOUVRE Museum, Paris, France The Lowe Art Museum, Miami The Mead art Museum, Amherst, MA The Maramotti Collection of Contemporary Art, Via Fratelli, Emilia, Italy The Montana Museum of Art & Culture Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago The Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, Germany The Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ The North Carolina Museum of Art, NC The Private collection of Catherine Woloch Lavergne, Directeur General of Europe and Middle East. Christian Dior Couture The Private collection of HRH Shaikha Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, UAE The Private collection of HRH. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE The Private collection of HRH. Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg The Private collection of His Majesty, Mohammed VI of Morocco The RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scott sdale, AZ The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Smithsonian African Museum of Art, Washington DC The Spelman Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA The Williams College Museum of Art Yannick And Ben Jakober Foundation Museum, Mallorca, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS Present Tense: Prints from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT September 29, 2016 - January 17, 2017 Écritures Contemporaines , Musée Champollion, Figeac, France July 8 – November 3 2016, Opening Reception: July 7th Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. May 29, 2016 – January 2, 2017 Material Culture, The William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California August 26 – October 27, 2016 Alchemy: Transformations in Gold, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA February – May 2017 Exhibition will be traveling to another venue, to be announced. One Belt One Road, Visual Arts Exhibtion 2016, Sotheby’s Honk Kong Gallery, Honk Kong April 11, 2016 – August 15 2016 Re-Orientations, Colorado College March 25 – May 7th 2015 Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism: Benjamin-Constant in his time Montreal, Canada January 26th - May 31st 2015 National Museum of Art, Rabat, Morocco, June 10th – September 30th The World Bank Art Program, Washington DC 8 May – 30 August 2014 Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Cherye R. and James F. Pierce Collection Honolulu Museum of Art, May 2014 Centre Culturel Le Botanique, Belgium February – March 2014 FotoFest 2014 Biennial, Houston, March – April 2014 i.d.e.a. Arizona Museum of Youth: A Way with Words, Arizona Museum of Youth, October 4th – January 19, 2014 She who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Art Boston August 27 – January 12, 2014 IN FOCUS: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. November 9 – December 30, 2012 In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in Front of the Camera, Newwark Museum September 1st, 2012 A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, USC Fisher Museum of Art September 5 – December 1, 2012 Sargazers: Elizabeth Catlett In Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists. Bronx Museum, NY January 27 -May 29, 2011 Résonance : artistes contemporains marocains du monde Musée privé de Marrakech October 7- November 7, 2010 “ Art of Today” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA June 10-30, 2010 Mapping Identity, Haverford College, Haverford, PA March 19 April 30, 2010 "Out of the Box": Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA October 24, 2009 - October 2010 Camoufage, La Casa Enciendida, Madrid, Spain September 17 – November 1, 2009 Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA September 10 - December 5, 2009 Ingres et les Modernes, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France July 3-October 4, 2009 A Complex Weave:Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, The Stedman Gallery, Rutgers, NJ, September 8-December 18 2009 Patern ID, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH January 23-May 9, 2010 Transitions. Painting at the (other) End of Art. The Moramotti collection of contemporary art, Emilia, Italy (May 24 to October 31, 2009) Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (January 31 - June 3, 2009) Decoding Identity: I Do It for My People, Museum of The African Diaspora (January 23, 2009 – March 8, 2009) Timbuktu to Cape Town, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (December 3 – March 22, 2009) Photographic Figures, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA November 19 2008 – May 10, 2009 Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body The Hood Museum of Art March 28 through August 3, 2008 Far from Home, North Carolina Museum of Art February 17-July 13, 2008 Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois December 8, 2007 Through February 24, 2008 Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA February 2 – April 27, 2008 Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC October 20 – December 30, 2007 Byond Likeness, North Dakota Museum of Art, March 27 – May 13, 2007 “ON THE WALL: Aperture Magazine ‘05/06, Aperture Foundation New York, NY January 11—March 8, 2007 “NAZAR” The National Museum of Singapore, Singapore March 27 – April 22, 2007 “Don’t Know Much About History” Art Space, New Haven, CT November 18 – January 20, 2007 “ Art That Matters: When Politics Get Personal” Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN November 4 – December 10, 2006 “The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation” Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL September 30, 2006–June 30, 2007 Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art John Michael Koehler Arts Center, Sheboygan October 15 - December 30 2006 Images of the Middle East, “Identity in the Process of Change” Danish Center for Culture and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark Summer /Fall, 2006 “NAZAR” in Berlin , IFA Gallery January 2006 to March 2006 “NAZAR”, The IFA Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany November 2005 - January 2006 Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Museum of Photographic arts, San Diego, CA October 1 -December 31, 2005 The Painted Word, Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts Museum, Easton, PA, October 28 – December 18, 2005 “NAZAR” Aperture Foundation, Chelsea, New York, NY September 8, 2005 “NAZAR” Langhans Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic May 25-July 31, 2005 “Surface” Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY May 5- June 30, 2005 “The 2005 DeCordova Museum Annual Exhibitions April 30 – July 31, 2005 “NAZAR” show at Houston Fotofestival March 15 - 15 June, 2005 “Rewind/Re-Cast/Review, Photography show, The Ramapo College Art Galleries, NJ February 15 - March 18, 2005 “In the Company of Women” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA October 30 - April 17, 2005 “About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection” Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL October 9, 2004–January 16, 2005 8th International Photography Gathering, Le Pont Gallery, Aleppo, Syria, September 24-October 9, 2004 “NAZAR” –Photographs from the Arab World” Noorderlicht April 8- June 11, 2005 Photographic Festival, Fries Museum: Through Arab Eyes. Leewarden, Netherlands. 5 September-January, 2005 “Some of Their Parts” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA (July 15-September 4, 2004)