2016 INFINITY AWARD: ART
Walid Raad is the 2016 recipient for Art
Walid Raad is the 2016 recipient for Art
Preface to the third edition (Édition française) Plate I, 2012
archival color inkjet print mounted on aluminum Dibond
44 x 33 1/2 in. (111.8 x 85.1 cm)
framed: 47 x 36 1/2 in. (119.4 x 92.7 cm)
© Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
archival color inkjet print mounted on aluminum Dibond
44 x 33 1/2 in. (111.8 x 85.1 cm)
framed: 47 x 36 1/2 in. (119.4 x 92.7 cm)
© Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Walid Raad is an artist and Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union in New York City. His works include mixed media installations, performance, video and photography, and literary essays, as well as The Atlas Group – a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, with particular emphasis on the Lebanese wars of 1975 to 1991. Raad’s books include Walkthrough, The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let’s Be Honest The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.