Walid Raad

Born Chbanieh, Lebanon, 1967

Raad is a media artist and an Associate Professor of Art at the Cooper Union, New York. Raad's works to date include mixedmedia installations, performance, video and photography, and literary essays. His recent works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, with particular emphasis on the Lebanese civil war, 1975–91. Raad's works have been shown at Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, New York, Homeworks, Beirut, and numerous other museums and venues in Europe, the Middle East and North America. His books include The Truth will be Known when the Last Witness is Dead and My Neck is Thinner than a Hair. Raad is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut/New York.