Annabel Daou
Annabel Daou’s work takes form through paper-based constructions, sound, performance, and video. Daou suspends, carves out, or records the language of daily life: from the ordinary or mundane to the intimately personal and urgently political. In her performance work she explores questions of trust, intimacy, cross-cultural exchange, and the operations of power. Her work frequently evokes moments of rupture and chaos but with the tenuous possibility for repair. Daou was born and raised in Beirut and lives in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include “What is left of us” at signs and symbols, New York; “War Games” at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin; “DECLARATION” at Ulrich Museum of Art; “Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou” at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. Her billboard project What is mine? What is yours? was shown in Beirut in 2024 as part of Temporary Art Platform’s In the Blink of an Eye. Recent residencies include the Pollock-Krasner award at ISCP in New York and Haus Des Papiers in Berlin. A monograph of Daou’s work is being published by Distanz in 2025.
Conduit Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
2024
signs and symbols, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Temporary Art Platform, Beirut, Lebanon
2023
Haus Des Papiers, Berlin, Germany (residency)
Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
2022
Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA (solo)
Urlich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (solo)
2021
A Year Like Any Other, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
I will worry for you (from dusk till dawn), 12 hour performance, School, Vienna, Austria
2020
Chou Hayda, online exhibition, Signs and Symbols, New York
ask me a question that has no answer, online exhibition, Signs and Symbols, New York
I will worry for you (from dusk till dawn), 12 hour performance, Brooklyn, NY
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, Signs and Symbols, New York
2019
The Naked Truth, A European History, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
Living Room (Use it together), International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY
Privacy in Public, Metropolitan New York Library Council, New York, NY
Fortune, (June-December) performance in-residence, Signs and Symbols, New York
2018
hou Hayda? an audio guide project by Annabel Daou and the people of Beirut
The Beirut Museum of Art, Beirut (solo)
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Fünfter Akt, Trabanten, Düsseldorf
2017
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2016
White Cube…Literally, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai
Acts of Sedition, Whitebox, New York, NY
Stages of Trust, Galerie Zimmerman Kratochwill, Graz, Austria
2015
What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Territoire d'Affects, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
a million times, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
2014
Art=Text=Art, Private Languages/Public Systems, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY Now Read This, The Arts and Humanities Institute Gallery, Boise, ID
Art Dubai‘s Global Art Forum, Dubai
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin (solo)
2013
Fortune, White Box, NY, NY
Fortune, MoMA PS1, NY, NY
The Drawing Room, London, UK
2012
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Osart Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Osart Gallery, Milan, Italy
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2010
Denison Museum, Granville, OH
12th Int. Cairo Biennale (US Pavilion), Egypt
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2009
Brown University, Providence, RI
The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Judi Rotenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Segovia, Spain
Museum Sztukiw Odzi, Lodz, Poland
2008
Creative Time at the Park Ave. Armory, NY